Fresh Vibes Market is a mobile farm fresh market featuring low cost produce from The Campaign Against Hunger’s Urban Agro-Ecological Centers and local farmers. The Campaign Against Hunger’s Fresh Vibes Market provides fresh, affordable produce to the community and additional services. The mobile unit is equipped with a mobile classroom, a benefits access area, produce storage bins, as well as a cook-top and refrigerated areas for the storage of prepared foods. This allows TCAH to offer a wide variety of services in a single stop, including one-on-one benefits counseling, tax preparation and filing, SNAP screenings, fitness classes, nutrition workshops, cooking demos, as well as fresh produce and other healthful foods. Thanks to the support of the Fresh Vibes Market, we expect to continue making progress in fighting obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and other chronic diet-preventable illnesses, just as we have been doing for more than 20 years.
The Fresh Vibes Market Coordinator must be an outgoing, friendly, and dependable individual, who is consistently available to work on designated market days and during events.
1. Compose market operations each week making sure all support materials are charged, ready, and onboard the vehicle (materials include the cash box; iPad/POS system, SNAP machine, price signs, market signs, etc.)
2. Ensure that the Fresh Vibes vehicle maintains its cleanliness, safety and appeal to customers.
3. Organize produce for display, set-up, and break down
4. Determine when produce is expired and remove expired products
5. Establish priorities, work independently, and proceed with objectives without supervision
6. Provide above-and-beyond customer service at market sites engaging and encouraging current and potential customers to try new products
7. Coordinate leftover produce for future market sales
8. Must have excellent oral communication and leadership skills
9. Dissolve conflicts and handle customer complaints in a professional manner
10. Interact with colleagues, supervisors and customers face-to-face
11. Accurately administer cash, credit, SNAP, and FMNP sales transactions to customers using a custom POS application
12. Complete end-of-day financial report and enter into database
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Experience in retail sales and management (produce is a plus)
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Comfortable communicating through email and text
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Ability to learn and use the following tools and systems quickly: iPad, POS systems, basic accounting, and datatracking in excel
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Maintain highenergy and a friendly attitude while working in a fast paced, physically demanding work environment
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Purchase fresh produce from various vendors
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Exceptional interpersonal customer and communication skills
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Some Spanishspeaking ability is a plus
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Capable of lifting up to 50 pounds, carrying large boxes, stepping up and down out of a truck and standing for several hours at a time
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Independently travel back and forth to different locations
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Dependable and available to work at delegated weekly markets, which includes Saturdays
OUR STORY Dr. Melony Samuels, Executive Director and Founder of The Campaign Against Hunger (TCAH), is a true community champion. In 1998, her compassion led her to help a struggling mother out of her own pocket—an act that sparked a mission. She knew the fight against hunger required more than kindness; it needed a community effort. Since then, TCAH has grown from a small church basement pantry into a powerhouse addressing youth empowerment, nutrition education, and community engagement. We've undergone name changes (Grace International Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger TCAH), served 150 zip codes, and championed food justice across NYC. Our once-small pantry is now a SuperPantry and model of client choice. We offer nutrition classes, cooking demos, urban farms, and youth jobs through our Green Teens program. We also provide services like SNAP enrollment, health insurance signups, and tax prep. As hunger, inequality, and health disparities persist, our work continues to evolve.
