Who We Are:

The Atlanta Community Food Bank is working to end hunger in our community with the food, people and big ideas needed so that no one worries about where their next meal is coming from. Since 1979, we’ve been providing food for a growing network of nonprofit partners – including food pantries, community kitchens, childcare centers, night shelters and senior centers. We currently serve more than 700 partners in 29 counties across metro Atlanta and north Georgia.

Where You’ll Work:

Nutrition / Partner Relations

About the Role:

This internship offers a hands-on opportunity to support the Nutrition and Wellness team at the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Interns will assist with nutrition education and cooking demonstrations both in the Food Bank’s Learning Kitchen and at partner sites, helping to promote healthy eating and food literacy across our community. Tasks may include planning and facilitating classes, preparing materials, and supporting event logistics such as setup, shopping, and clean-up.

In addition to program facilitation, interns will contribute to the development of nutrition resources, create content for social media, and gain exposure to multiple departments to better understand the scope of the Food Bank’s work. This role is ideal for a student pursuing a degree in nutrition who is passionate about community health, trauma-informed care, and hands-on learning in a collaborative environment.

Opportunities to Learn: / Skills You'll Acquire: To gain a well-rounded understanding of the Food Bank’s mission and day-to-day work, interns will have the opportunity to contribute across several program areas, including but not limited to:

• Supporting Nutrition and Wellness activities in the Food Bank’s Learning Kitchen and at partner sites

• Facilitating basic cooking and nutrition education using food bank inventory

• Assisting with planning, shopping, setup, facilitation, and cleanup for classes

• Creating menus, lesson plans, and shopping lists tailored to class size

• Contributing to the development and upkeep of the nutrition resource library

• Building skills in time management, event planning and execution, organization, and teamwork

Our Inclusive Hiring Process:

At the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We understand that skills can be gained through a variety of experiences – educational and work. Towards that end, our Inclusive Hiring process is grounded in a skills-based hiring approach. That means, we are looking for resumes that demonstrate key transferrable skills that can be applied to our internships to support both our mission and culture.

Key Competencies we look for in All our Food Bank Interns are:

• Customer Focus

• Decision Making

• Accountability

• The Ability to Navigate Change

If you’re excited about this internship opportunity and can clearly demonstrate these and the other skills named below, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

What You’ll Need: Skills and Experience your resume should demonstrate:

• Interest in the intersection of hunger, health, food access, and food literacy, trauma-informed service, community education, and building stronger, food secure communities.

• At least two years of college experience in nutrition, food science, culinary arts.

• Experience with safe food handling practices and customer service

• Strong written, verbal communication (public speaking) and interpersonal skills.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office

• Organized, detail oriented, and flexible

• Ability to work independently, with or without supervision

• Ability to collaborate and work well with a diverse groups of people

• Personal transportation is necessary

Even Better if You Have:

• Current ServSafe Food Handlers certification

• Actively pursuing a BS or MS degree in nutrition

• Experience facilitating cooking demonstrations or educational classes

• Demonstrated commitment to trauma-informed care

• Proficiency in Canva and experience creating food-related social media content

There may be some Physical Demands and Travel:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Intern routinely is required to lift 25 lbs.

Expectation:

We are committed to providing employees with an environment of mutual respect in which the values of Diversity, Safety, Continuous Improvement, and Hard work are supported and encouraged. We work diligently to engender fairness, responsibility, trustworthiness, and teamwork to advance our mission: To fight hunger by engaging, educating, and empowering our community.