NOW HIRING: AmeriCorps Food Access Strategic Initiatives Specialist

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Host Site: Table to Table Food Distribution Network
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
Service Term: (Winter 2025 varies by enrollment date) – August 2026 

Hours: Three-quarter time 36 weeks, 1200 hours
Member Type: Iowa Community Corps AmeriCorps Member

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ABOUT AMERICORPS IOWA COMMUNITY CORPS

The Iowa Community Corps AmeriCorps Program partners AmeriCorps members with local organizations addressing public health needs across Iowa. Members serve on special projects that strengthen food security, expand access to social services, and increase volunteer and community engagement. AmeriCorps members build the human infrastructure that sustains community well-being — while gaining professional skills and credentials such as the Community Health Worker Certification.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Are you a connector, collaborator, and problem-solver who’s passionate about food equity? Join Table to Table, Iowa’s original food rescue organization, as a Food Access Strategic Initiatives Specialist. You’ll help strengthen how our community works together to ensure everyone has access to good food.

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys relationship-building, communication, and logistics — and wants to make a visible difference in how food moves from abundance to need. You’ll play a key role in supporting the Johnson County Food Access Network, a coalition of food access partners working collaboratively to build a more efficient and equitable local food system.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Objective: Food Access Network Development Support 

  • Coordinate, schedule, and prep materials for convenings of the food access network and their subcommittees
  • Maintain line of communication with partner agencies between monthly meetings on network-related happenings and updates
  • Identify and track grant opportunities for the network and offer writing support when needed 
  • Provide administrative support for network’s collective food purchasing pilot 

Objective: Partner Relationships Development

  • Work with the program development team to develop a contact list and initiate relationships with food transport drivers, dispatchers, cold storage facilities, and transport companies  serving the Eastern Iowa region.
  • Builds and maintains a network of farms and local growers that are interested and willing to have volunteers come and glean their produce.
  • Serve as a liaison between local hunger relief agencies and growers. Work with recipient partners to gauge produce needs and delivery windows
  • Participate in food recovery routes to analyze donor and recipient partner needs, identify challenges and opportunities and develop subsequent procedures and documentation to educate partners. 

Objective: Food Recovery Route Capacity Building Support

  • Recruit and schedule volunteers as needed and launch local food distribution routes.
  • Support expanded seasonal routes by learning and contributing to key components of food rescue  routes, OS&D (semi truck rejected deliveries: Overages, Shortages, & Damages) food rescue
  • Record volunteer feedback and pass on pertinent information that impacts planning and management of the food rescue program

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Passion for food access, equity, and community collaboration.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills.
  • Comfort with both desk and hands-on work (must lift up to 40 lbs occasionally).
  • Valid driver’s license and good driving record preferred (age 21+ required for insurance).
  • Willingness to engage with volunteers, partners, and community members.

BENEFITS

  • Living Allowance (paid biweekly)
  • Segal Education Award upon completion of service term
  • Community Health Worker Professional Skills Training & Certification
  • Professional development opportunities in public health, food systems, and nonprofit operations
  • Supportive, team-based environment with access to volunteer management, logistics, and food recovery experience.

ABOUT TABLE TO TABLE

Table to Table is a nonprofit food rescue organization bridging the gap between abundance and hunger in Johnson County. Each year, we rescue and redistribute over 2.6 million pounds of food to more than 40 local hunger-relief agencies. AmeriCorps members are fully integrated into our team, receive individualized professional development support, and play a vital role in our mission to ensure that good food feeds people, not landfills.

HOW TO APPLY

Complete the Iowa Community Corps interest Application and indicate your interest in the Table to Table position.