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About the Role
About You
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Ability to work flexible shifts, including weekends and holidays.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team.
- Prior grocery or retail experience.
- Familiarity with DC food safety and customer service standards.
- Attention to detail, time management, and reliability.
Benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Transit, Parking, and Healthcare
- Monthly Cell Phone Stipend
- Transit Assistance through SmartBenefits
- 100% employer paid life insurance
- 100% employer paid short and long-term disability
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.'s mission is to build an equitable food system, economic opportunity for marginalized people, and more resilient communities. We work to strategically and systemically address the issues of community health, employment, and economic empowerment within communities by transforming the food system Wards 6, 7, and 8 of Washington, DC. Founded in 2008, Dreaming Out Loud (DOL) was created in response to educational and economic disparities in underserved, low-income communities. Our work began in Ward 7 in Washington, D.C. where we taught children character and leadership development; developed and implemented a youth workforce development program for 72 participants working in the Mayor’s “Green Summer Jobs Corps”. Along the way, DOL noticed consequential issues surrounding food systems and economics in our partner communities. This lead to the establishment of a network of farmers markets working to fight “food deserts” and build health equity. Seeing the nexus between health and economics, DOL has developed an innovative approach, vertically integrating the food-system in African-American communities through: (1) Urban farming, (2) Food access via community-centered farmers markets and (3) A “healthy food hub”: a mission-driven aggregation, storage, and distribution facility for local produce to restaurants, schools, and other food related-businesses. Since 2014, DOL has reached more than 40,000 people, distributed more than 250,000 pounds of produce, and hosted more than 1,500 people in healthy cooking demonstrations at our farmers markets and employed 12 youth in summer workforce programs in Wards 6, 7, and 8.