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About the Role

Project Open Hand provides more than 2,000 meals daily to sick and elderly clients. As a Driver, you will nurture vital connections by delivering nutritious meals to homebound clients and senior sites throughout San Francisco and Alameda counties. This is an ideal position for a compassionate driver looking to directly help others.

Responsibilities

• Load and unload POH delivery vehicles
• Drive POH vehicles to ensure timely delivery of meals to clients and senior sites
• Deliver extra routes not covered by volunteers
• Prepare route sheets, dispatch, and engage with delivery volunteers as needed
• Facilitate communication between clients, Dispatcher and Client Services
• Provide Client Services with status updates on POH clients
• Perform routine daily maintenance of delivery vehicles
• Transport agency supplies and equipment as needed
• Assist other departments and participate in agency-wide events as needed
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Two years’ experience driving large delivery vehicles in an urban setting like Oakland and San Francisco
• Valid California driver’s license and excellent driving record
• Schedule flexibility and ability to work nights, holidays and weekends when necessary
• Strong verbal and written proficiency with the English language to facilitate communication
• Excellent professional references
• Experience serving clients with multiple diagnoses (i.e. substance abuse, mental illness, critical illness)

Skills

• Team player: Demonstrates cooperative spirit, respects professional boundaries and is successful at sharing responsibilities with others
• Self-Led: Knows and completes responsibilities in assigned timelines, asks for clarifications when needed
• Sensitive to the circumstances and needs of the critically ill and seniors, as well as people with mental health and substance abuse issues
• Customer oriented: Works well with all customers (internal staff and external contacts), promotes a positive image of the agency and works diligently to resolve customer issues
• Poised: able to maintain a calm, positive and constructive attitude during interactions with diverse populations, sometimes in challenging situations
• Ethical: Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality
• Well organized: Information organized and accessible, maintains efficient work space, manages time well
• Motivated: Looks for opportunities to increase knowledge, works to increase responsibility, strives to achieve personal goals
• Flexible and available: Must be flexible to work nights, weekends or holidays to meet demands

Location

• Oakland

Work Type

• Full-time

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, and Flexible Spending Account
• Long Term Disability, Life/AD&D, and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings Plan 403(b), Commuter Check Subsidy
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Financial Counseling, Cell Phone Discounts, and additional discounts
• Holidays (11 per year), generous vacation and sick leave, and complimentary lunch

About the Company

• Project Open Hand provides more than 2,000 meals with love each day to its community of sick and elderly clients and the Distribution department is the frontline of the organization.