Child Meal Programming Coordinator - Verona or Charlottesville

Do you enjoy keeping details organized, coordinating logistics, and supporting programs that make a meaningful difference in your community? Join the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank and help ensure children have access to nutritious meals through our child nutrition programs.

The mission of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank is to improve food security through equitable access to good nutrition and the resources that support health and well-being.

The Child Meal Programming Coordinator is a hands-on coordination role with significant administrative, logistical, and compliance responsibilities. Key duties include data entry and management, maintaining program records and documentation, tracking inventory and coordinating purchasing, managing email and phone communications, preparing reports, and monitoring deadlines and regulatory requirements to ensure accurate and compliant program operations.

The CMPC also serves as a liaison between program partners, volunteers, and Food Bank departments to coordinate program logistics, communicate requirements, support implementation, and facilitate training as needed. The successful candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage recurring administrative tasks while balancing competing priorities and supporting the effective delivery of child nutrition programs.

Required Job Qualifications:

• Experience coordinating programs, logistics, or operational activities in a professional setting.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to maintain accurate records, manage multiple tasks, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to enter, track, organize, and report data accurately.
• Clear, effective, and professional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Outlook, Word, and Excel, and the ability to work with databases, spreadsheets, and other computer-based systems.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and balance recurring administrative responsibilities with program needs in both office and field settings.
• Valid driver's license and a good driving record. Travel throughout the Food Bank's service area is required, including occasional evening and weekend hours. The Food Bank provides fleet vehicles for work-related travel when available; occasional use of a personal vehicle may be required in accordance with organizational policy.

Even if you feel that you do not meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We are eager to meet candidates who share our vision, our mission, and our core beliefs that hunger is unacceptable, everyone deserves access to enough food, that food sustains life and nourishes health, and that we are called to serve without judgment.

The Child Meal Programming Coordinator role is a non-exempt, full-time role, offering an effective and healthy work culture, competitive salary, and excellent benefits. This is an onsite role based in Verona or Charlottesville and reports to the Senior Manager of Programs. Occasional evening work is required.

The hiring range is $21.88 to $24.10 per hour.

To be considered for this role, please submit a cover letter and resume, or a cover letter and BRAFB application, to humanresources@brafb.org or mail to BRAFB, Human Resources Office, P.O. Box 937, Verona, 24482. The position will be open until filled.

To obtain an employment application, to learn more about the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank or this vacancy, please visit our website at www.brafb.org.

The BRAFB is fundamentally committed to the diversity of our staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspective and lived experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.