Community Market Coordinator (Supermarket)

If you have any questions, only email Humanresources@yeahphilly.org. Do not email any other emails please.  Please do not apply if you can not commit to the hours of 12p-8p (Mon-Fri). Please do not apply if you do not have a sales or market/ deli/ grocery store background.

Summary: Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout (YEAH) is a Black-led, community-based non-profit supporting teens and young adults in West and Southwest Philadelphia ages 15 to 24 who are impacted by violence. YEAH works to create safe and authentic hangout spaces by providing culturally relevant engagement and implementing teen led interventions to address the root causes of violence. Utilizing teen action through peer led mediation and conflict resolution, community engagement, and economic opportunities, YEAH interrupts the cycle of youth community violence. YEAH acknowledges teens and young adults as the experts of their own lives and prioritizes pushing back against oppressive systems and addressing structural barriers that often lead to violence. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: The Market Coordinator will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations and tasks of running and sustaining YEAH Philly’s neighborhood market. This position will work with various staff members and young people to ensure successful market operations and the creation of new operations. 

Job Requirements: Philadelphia resident or residency within 6 months required. High School diploma required; Bachelor’s degree preferred. Candidates should have superb organizational and administrative skills and must have previous experience with supply chains, distributions, administrative, finance, and operational duties; must know how to take initiative, be action oriented, and have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Candidates who identify racially or ethnically as Black or Brown and have been personally impacted by the criminal legal system or violence (directly or indirectly) are strongly encouraged to apply.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Create and maintain relationships with community members.
• Create and maintain relationships with renovation/maintenance contractors for appliances. 
• Survey the community to ensure food justice and equitable food distribution (types of foods people want and need, feedback about our processes). 
• Problem solve with market staff and customers as needed. 
• Assist leadership with coordinating the remainder of market construction and renovations.
• Identify new supply chain distribution sites for the market.
• Create new relationships and set up site visits with distribution sites or other community markets to ensure best practices and ongoing success of the market. 
• Create and maintain a market inventory process to ensure the store is stocked appropriately.
• Assist with the interviewing, hiring, and supervising of young people who will run the market and are employed. 
• Create and maintain a POS system for the market.
• Assist and oversee training young people for the market jobs, processes, POS, and customer service.
• Create a supply budget and assist with fiscal forecasting with the executive team as needed.
• Create a policy and procedure manual for the market.
• Compile fiscal policies and procedures with the market.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned