Vehicle Maintenance Manager - Help Your Homeless Neighbors in Berkeley

Be a force for good, and really help people...while working alone in peace and quiet! This volunteer job is ideal for someone who is 100% reliable, takes initiative, prefers to work alone, and enjoys making a valuable contribution "behind the scenes".

Hint: Need a job reference that speaks to your ability to work independently and unsupervised? Happiest when you're literally in the driver's seat or caring for vehicles? This is your gig.

Once a month, the 2014 Toyota Sienna van used in our mobile soup kitchen both need a good going-over and deep cleaning. TheVehicle Maintenance Manager (aka The CTH Gearhead) -- we hope that's you! -- does the following:

• takes a hard look at the tires, the brake lights, the bumpers and determines next steps if action is needed
• test drives the van on highways and side streets
• takes the van to be washed and vacuumed
• fills the tank
• (as needed) takes it to a shop for maintenance or repair work.
• (optional add-on): organizes supplies in the van and refill is needed

It’s fabulous to have the same person do this each month, so that changes to the vehicle are noticed and any repairs are promptly arranged. People with auto repair skills and/or who are knowledgeable about maintenance are obviously appreciated, but this is not at all required.

You do need a valid and current California driver’s license as well as a clean driving record.

Note that the van is parked at a central Berkeley location.

What / Who is Consider The Homeless?

We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit, local grassroots organization in Berkeley, CA that is 100% volunteer -- there are no paid staff. All donations directly fund our programs. Consider The Homeless! delivers food and survival supplies to unhoused Berkeley residents living on the street, in their car, or in an encampment. Unlike other services for the homeless, we do not require that people find their way to us. We go to them, and we meet them where they are...literally and figuratively.

Our primary activity is a mobile soup kitchen that delivers hot, homemade soup with bread and survival supplies in the evening every Thursday and Sunday, rain or shine.