- Customer oriented: Works well with all stakeholders and promotes a positive image of the
agency and works diligently to resolve customer issues.
- Poised: able to maintain a calm, positive and constructive attitude during interactions with
diverse populations, sometimes in challenging situations
Physical demands: While performing duties of job, you will be required to get in and out of your
vehicle multiple times per shift, drive, walk; sit; use hands to handle objects, tools, or controls;
reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must bend, stoop and lift and/or move up to
65 pounds unassisted on a regular basis. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close
vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust
focus.
Background Check: All employees are required to go through a yearly background check.
Vision Statement
We envision a community where all individuals with critical illnesses are no longer vulnerable to
hunger.
Mission Statement:
Mama’s Kitchen believes that everyone is entitled to the basic necessity of life – nutritious food. Our
services improve the health and well-being of individuals and families vulnerable to malnutrition
due to critical illnesses.
Mama’s Kitchen Core Values
Dignity and Respect: Focus on the individual is at the heart of everything we do at Mama’s
Kitchen. Mama’s Kitchen fosters a community where mutual respect and dignity are preserved by
promoting humanity, compassion and empathy towards our clients, donors, volunteers, and staff.
Reliability: Mama’s Kitchen is resourceful, efficient, and flexible. Our clients tell us that reliability is
what sets Mama’s apart from other organizations.
Integrity: Guided by honesty, loyalty and a commitment to confidentiality, Mama’s Kitchen is
responsive to the needs of all our clients, volunteers, donors, and staff. We pride ourselves in doing
what we say we are going to do.
Diversity: Mama’s Kitchen is an all-inclusive family. We foster a welcoming environment and
embrace all members of the community without judgment.
Team Work: Mutual effort and unity are the ingredients that allow our mission to succeed.
Equal Opportunity
Mama’s Kitchen has a long-standing commitment to equal employment opportunity for all
applicants for employment. Employment decisions including, but not limited to, those such as
employee selection, performance evaluation, administration of benefits, working conditions,
employee programs, transfers, position changes, training, disciplinary action, compensation, and
separations are made without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and
grooming), creed, national origin, nationality, citizenship status, domestic partnership status,
ancestry, gender, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status,
civil union status, family status, age, mental or physical disability (including AIDS or HIV-related
status), atypical heredity cellular or blood trait of an individual, genetic information or refusal to
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