Job Title:VAL food development officer

CompanyLa Coalition de la Petite-Bourgogne et Griffintown

Job TypeFull-Time

Deadline to Apply11/11/2024

Salary23 $

Job Description:

The Little Burgundy and Griffintown Coalition / Healthy Neighborhood, is the community roundtable. Its mission is to work towards improving the quality of life of Little Burgundy residents and promoting their participation in community life. The Coalition has some sixty members, including residents, community organizations and institutional representatives. Its actions are mainly carried out through three standing committees: development and living
environment, youth and health, and food.

Local Food Village (LFV)
Based on the thinking and work of a group of tenants' associations in Little Burgundy's HLMs, and inspired by the work of the neighborhood committee, the Coalition worked in concert with these groups and with citizens and groups aware of the food issues experienced in their area, with the aim of collectively developing responses to these issues. The Local Food Village (LFV) is the result of an effort spread over several months and supported by groups specializing in the subject.

Following numerous meetings and discussions, the VAL was composed of three main elements:
 A citizen café (which offers low-cost meals and organizes get-togethers and exchanges around a snack that the community wants to consolidate and perpetuate).
 An industrial kitchen (which needs to be fully equipped and commissioned) that will provide a local response to food production and proximity issues, while offering work and training facilities.
 A space reserved for the creation of a convenience store based on the social economy that would sell industrial production and offer a range of products meeting the specific needs of the community.
Added to this is a fourth essential element: the participation and involvement of the Comité de quartier, citizens from all walks of life, organizations that believe in this project and the Coalition de la Petite-Bourgogne, Under the supervision of the coordinator and in collaboration with fellow project managers, the successful candidate will ensure the development of food processing and sales activities.

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION
Participate in and contribute to the deployment of activities in the citizen café in collaboration with the Comité de Quartier and current users.
- Depending on the progress of funding, plan to increase the number of café citoyen operations.
- Help coordinate activities at the café citoyen
- Help set up civic activities at the Café.
Set up commercial kitchen activities
- Coordinate the completion of work in the Commercial Kitchen and complete the equipment needed to start
industrial production.
- Bringing the commercial kitchen up to MAPAQ standards
- Create a business model for the kitchen (including recipe planning, pricing per serving, and developing a
distribution model).
Coalition de la Petite-Bourgogne et Griffintown / Quartier en Santé
Setting up the food counter test area
- Set up a food counter on the premises of the convenience store ( define with the community the foods offered,
test the social pricing model)
Community life
- Participate in special membership meetings and other Coalition events
- Facilitate collaboration between neighborhood organizations
- Participate in strategic planning and development of evaluation tools

REQUIREMENTS
- College diploma in a relevant job-related field
- Business start-up experience
- Ability to use/develop data collection, analysis and monitoring tools;
- Experience and/or knowledge of issues related to local food systems
- Experience in leading groups and ability to work as part of a team
- Knowledge and experience in managing small food stores
- Knowledge and experience in food processing
- Knowledge of MAPAQ standards
- A strong sense of autonomy, capacity for innovation, flexibility and leadership.
- Good priority management
- Ease of adaptation
- Organizational skills
- Windows environment software skills
- Food organization manager certification, an asset
- Languages: excellent written and spoken French, English an asset
- Knowledge of Little Burgundy is an asset
- Knowledge of the community is an asset

Job type
One-year contract position, with possibility of renewal following an evaluation of objectives achieved and depending on available funding.
Schedule 35 hrs generally Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (occasional evenings and weekends); Hourly rate 23 $ Benefits: 2 weeks paid leave at Christmas, 8 sick days per year Please send your curriculum vitae with a covering letter no later than Monday November 11, 2024, 9:00 am to the
following address: coordination@petitebourgogne.org