PlateToPeople Staff Application

 

 

We look to hire exceptional, generable, or responsible members to the team. We hope all of you find the job below that suits and interests you. 

Chief Financial Officer (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 1 hr/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 9th
  • Expertise: Manage money that goes in and out of the organization.
  • Skills Needed: Responsible, Organized, Trustable

Digital Media Manager (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 4 hrs/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 9th
  • Expertise: Post social media updates about PlateToPeople events, programs, and opportunities across different platforms. Get involved with Events Manager, Drivers, and Food Collectors to successfully post about opportunities, food drives, and other community events. Work with Photographer / Videographer to get pictures to make posts, stories, reels, etc.
  • Skills Needed: Communicative, Photo Editing, Graphic Arts 

 

Photographer / Videographer 

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 3.5 hrs/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 9th
  • Expertise: Get involved in different events. Take pictures at different events, such as ceremonies, drives, meetings, etc. Work with Digital Media Manager by directly providing pictures to make posts, reels, stories, etc. 
  • Skills Needed: Collaboration, Teamwork, Photogenic (attach pictures you took on the resume)

 

PR and Marketing Manager (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 2.5 hrs/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 10th
  • Expertise: Oversee website and social media accounts ~ work collaboratively with Digital Media Manager and Website Developer. Maintain public relations with different School Leaders at different schools. Research and gather contacts for marketing ~ this requires respectively working with schools, counties, and county authorities to advertise PlateToPeople opportunities of collaboration: keep in touch with contacts about latest news and new opportunities, maintain primary contact emails, work with PlateToPeople Co-Founders and UI UX Designers to get banners and flyers that can be carried to public destinations with high attractions of people.
  • Skills Needed: Communicative, Good Oral and Written Skills, Responsible, Trustable, Time Management, Prior Experience (can talk about it on the resume) 

Driver 

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 3.5 hrs/week
  • Minimum Age: Owning a driver’s license and background check completed
  • Expertise: Focused Driver. Maintains contact with Digital Media Manager,  Events Manager, and Food Collectors to successfully make drives to local events, opportunities, and different schools. Multiple drivers are required to drive to different destinations, some even drive to different schools with Co-Founders and the PR and Marketing Manager to associate with other communities that are interested, and farmers markets with flyers and banners. Will get paid for gas money.
  • Skills Needed: Public Relations, Safety Driving, Time Commitment

Website Developer

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 1.5 hr/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 10th (9th or 8th with prior suitable experience may be considered)
  • Expertise: Keep website up to date with latest information about PlateToPeople. Create blogs, and opportunities. Work with Digital Media Manager to update website with pictures and posts ~ might need to create a separate “Gallery” page for this. Work with UI UX Designer and Merchandise Designer to update all information on PlateToPeople opportunities (included in banners and flyers) on websites, and create a “Merchandise Store” Page once merchandise is created.
  • Skills Needed: Knows how to use WordPress (attach link to previous websites you’ve worked with WordPress on the resume), Time Commitment, Journalism, Time Management

UI UX Designer (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 1.5 hr/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 9th (8th with prior experience may be considered)
  • Expertise: Create logos, banners, and flyers for events and the website. Update to Website Developer and PR and Marketing Manager once done. Work with Merchandise Designer to build merchandise once created logos.
  • Skills Needed: Graphic Arts, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator 

 

Merchandise Designer (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 0.5 hr/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 9th
  • Expertise: Create merchandise. Work with UI UX Designer. If possible, and run out of work, help UI UX Designer. Should have designed first merch by January 6, 2024.
  • Skills Needed: Should have prior experience with UI UX design, Collaboration, Teamwork, Time Commitment

Logistics Specialist (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 0.5 hr/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 9th
  • Expertise: Schedule the day for the events. Creating schedules, and coordinating schedules with the Events Manager. 
  • Skills Needed: Collaboration, Planning

 

Events Manager (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 1 hr/week

  • Minimum Grade Level: 9th
  • Expertise: Work with Logistics Specialist to create days for certain events. Plan out drives or specific events by contacting Drivers, Food Collectors, Digital Media Manager, PR and Marketing Manager, and Co-Founders. Organize different events on different days, and always stay in touch to know the current event that is going to take place. Important Days / Larger Events: talk to PR and Marketing Manager, Digital Media Manager, Drivers, and Co-Founders. Food Donation Days: talk to Drivers, Food Collectors, and Digital Media Manager.
  • Skills Needed: Collaboration, Planning

Mobile App Developer:

iOS Developer (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 2 hrs/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 9th (6 months of experience (minimum) in Swift)
  • Expertise: Designing a PlateToPeople application for the iOS platform. Collaborate with Co-Founders when creating the app. Deploy the application on the App Store.
  • Skills Needed: Swift, iOS

Android App Developer (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 2 hrs/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 9th (6 months experience (minimum) in Java)
  • Expertise: Designing a PlateToPeople application for the Android platform. Collaborate and design along with iOS Developer. Deploy the application on the Google Play Store.
  • Skills Needed: Java, Android

     

    Communications Officer (Currently Unavailable)

    • Estimated Time Commitment: 1.5 hrs/week
    • Minimum Grade Level: 11th
    • Expertise: As a communications officer, you will receive updates and will be in constant contact with the entirety of the team to ensure no one falls behind. You will also send emails back accepting or rejecting new PlateToPeople applicants, based on the team’s overall vote or decision during meeting calls. On top of that, you will receive any updates and clarify any confusion the staff has under the tasks the Co-Founder(s) assign. Co-Founder(s) will be sending weekly emails, but you will be sending update emails and check-ins. This DOES NOT mean you will be sending emails regarding drives. The emails you will be sending are only for special events like team photos, interviews, etc. Lastly, you will resolve any conflicts and confusion, meaning you will be moderating group chats and video calls.
    • Skills Needed: Communication, Patience, Speech, Mature

Partnership Manager (Currently Unavailable)

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 1.5 hr/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 10th
  • Expertise: If you don’t have much time for PR and Marketing Manager but are still interested, choose this. Help PR and Marketing Manager in researching and gathering contacts for marketing. Reach out to different School Leaders, county representatives, or businesses to allow for PlateToPeople to organize events at those places or district offices. Maintain contact information and send out emails along with PR and Marketing Manager and UIUX Designer with flyers and banners. Give the community a sense of volunteering or donating opportunities.
  • Skills Needed: Communication, Coordination, Good Oral and Written Skills

School Leader

  • Estimated Time Commitment: 3 hrs/week
  • Minimum Grade Level: 10th
  • Expertise: If you notice food waste at your school, please don’t hesitate to take action. Design a team at school which actively collects food leftovers at lunch using labeled bins. The labeled bins will be left outside of your lunchroom or at the end of the lunchline, where if someone doesn’t want food they accidentally took, they can leave it in that bin. At the end of each school week on Friday, package the foods that you get from those bins and deliver them to us. Also, be sure to take pictures and send them to our Digital Media Manager, so we can recognize you for your involvement by posting on Instagram. If you have any further ideas like creating a separate Instagram, don’t be afraid to tell us. We look forward to building relationships and growing our chapters at your schools. Without your help, we wouldn’t have an opportunity.
  • Skills Needed: Hard Work, Planning, Communication

Upon submission of this application, our team will review your application and will contact you shortly regarding interview scheduling and next steps. Feel free to reach out to info@platetopeople.org if you have any questions!

Motivated by witnessing food waste in restaurants and schools, the founders Robi, Noor, and Vedant initiated PlateToPeople as a solution to address hunger and food waste. Key to their vision is community involvement, with partnerships formed with restaurants, schools, and businesses to make a greater impact collectively.

PlateToPeople invites community support through donations, volunteerism, and raising awareness about food waste. They encourage the community, especially high school students, to recognize and appreciate what they have, emphasizing that positive change starts small and collectively.

In a call to action, PlateToPeople invites the community to join their movement and fight hunger one plate at a time, urging support through social media engagement and emphasizing that positive change begins with unity and gratitude.

PlateToPeople Staff Application Form