Description

Duties

The Community Worker will assist with program planning and delivery for our Good Food Box, Collective Cooking and Community Gardens programs.

The Community Worker will help with:

• Coordinating the Good Food Box program and assisting with packing and delivering boxes on a monthly basis
• Assist in Collective Cooking workshops
• Delivering program-based surveys and collecting client stories
• Attending the weekly Urban Park Market to promote ACT programs
• Maintaining the Community Garden sites by helping to repair, build, and install garden plots, and tending to charity plots to grow food for emergency food and shelter providers
• Other duties as assigned

Desired Interests and Career Goals

The Youth Community Worker should be someone who has a strong interest in social justice, advocacy work, and/or community development. The candidate will love working outdoors and must be someone who excels at working as a team and engaging with others. Students or graduates of social work, social service work, community development, or environmental studies are strongly encouraged to apply.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong teamwork ethic; excellent computer skills;
• exceptional written and oral communication skills; English/French bilingualism is an asset;
• ability to lift up to 40 lbs
• Eligibility: Must be between the ages of 15 and 30; a Canadian Citizen, permanent resident, or person on whom refugee protection has been conferred; and legally entitled to work in Ontario.

Salary and Work Schedule 

This is a full-time (35 hours/week), 8-week contract at $17.60/hour. Start date is flexible.

Deadline for applications is 4:30 p.m. on April 26, 2026.

Please e-mail resume and cover letter (saved as 1 PDF document with "Summer Youth Community Worker" in subject line) to: apply@antihungercoalition.com

This job is funded by the Canadian Government, Employment and Social Development Canada through the Canada Summer Jobs (CJS) grant 2026.