JOB POSTING #2025-42-01

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL

Seniors Services – Lunch with the Bunch

Lunch with the Bunch Program Coordinator

Wage: $22.44 per hour

Part Time: 15 hours per week, Tuesdays and Fridays   

Temporary until March 31, 2025  (possibility of extension)

Oversee the Seniors Services Lunch with the Bunch Program Operations    

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Location:  Abbotsford

On Site

Job Summary:

The Program Coordinator of Lunch with the Bunch, Seniors Services, oversees the daily operations of the Lunch with the Bunch Program.  This position is responsible for program development, recruiting and onboarding volunteers, delivering consistent and quality service to clients, and liaising with community partners and suppliers. The Program Coordinator oversees the Lunch with the Bunch volunteers to ensure continuous operation and delivery of the program.

Your Role:

Archway’s Lunch with the Bunch Program Coordinator with the Seniors Services Lunch with the Bunch Program contributes by:

• Ensuring effective program delivery consistent with agency and program mandate, policies and procedures, legal, and budgetary requirements.
• Coordinating program supplies and facilities needed for the program.
• Ordering program supplies and deliveries from food suppliers.
• Overseeing volunteers, practicum students, and other Archway staff in providing services, and delegating appropriate tasks.
• Coordinating pick up and/or drop off for Lunch with the Bunch clients.
• Screening volunteers’ driving records ensuring each volunteer is a safe driver.
• Informing volunteers of the policies and expectations of using program vehicles.
• Delegating routes to volunteers; selecting which route and driver program vehicles will be used for transporting clients and/or supplies.
• Planning the menu for Lunch with the Bunch.
• Ensuring Lunch with the Bunch menu cards are complete and displayed on tables showing upcoming menus.
• Arranging entertainment, speakers, activities, and prizes for Lunch with the Bunch, and/or program events.
• Ensuring program supplies such as dishwasher soap and sugar are stocked, inventoried, clean and maintained including organizing the dish room and cleaning tablecloths and dishes.
• Managing and maintaining client files and updating client information as needed.
• Collecting and reporting program information including monthly and year end statistics.

This position is a great fit for someone who is well organized, who enjoys helping seniors, has excellent communication skills, is adept with Microsoft Office365, and has good relationship building and networking skills.   

Our Offer

•  Wage:  $22.44 per hour
• A part-time position at 15 hours per week, availability Tuesdays and Fridays, from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. 
• Temporary until March 31, 2025, with the possibility of an extension.

Perks include:

• Great in-house training opportunities.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program that includes online access to wellness resources.
• Rewarding work in a positive environment.
• Work/life balance.

Getting an Interview – you will be considered if you have:

• A Social Services Diploma or a combination of education and work experience. 
• Experience providing services to seniors is preferred.
• Experience planning events.
• Food Safe certificate is an asset.

The Job Requires you to have:

• A Class 5 BC Driver’s License and satisfactory driver’s record.
• A reliable, personal vehicle in which to use for driving for program-related work and which can be insured for business purposes.
• Excellent verbal, written, and active listening skills; able to communicate respectfully and effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences.
• Strong competency with computers; able to use Microsoft Office365 particularly Word, Outlook, and Excel.
• Ability to use virtual meeting platforms including Microsoft Teams and Zoom. 
• Well-developed presentation skills; ability to engage the audience and facilitate group activities.
• Strong planning, organization, and time management skills; ability to manage competing priorities.
• Good relationship building and network skills.
• Ability to work with people who have difficulty using technology.
• Emergency First Aid with CPR Level C.
• Ability to have direct, in-person contact with on-site staff and clients, requiring adherence to health and safety protocols.
• Ability to interact with difficult people or people in difficult situations.
• A satisfactory Criminal Records Check is a condition of employment. 

Closing date is January 26, 2025. 

No phone calls please. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

Your resume may also be forwarded to other Programs for their consideration for their job vacancies.  If you do not wish for your application to be shared with other Programs, please send an e-mail to with DO NOT FORWARD TO OTHER PROGRAMS, in the subject line of the e-mail and the job reference number to which you applied, in the body of the e-mail.

Archway's goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. Equity and diversity are essential to excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including Indigenous identity, race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, political belief, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age.  

We acknowledge that we gather on the traditional and unceded territory of the Stō:ló people. Stō:ló territory extends from the mouth of the Fraser River to Boston Bar. Locally, this includes the Matsqui First Nation and Sumas First Nation. We give them thanks for sharing their land and resources with us.

We invest in the mental health and wellbeing of our employees.