Volunteer

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with Kaibosh. Check out the current vacancies in Wellington, Lower Hutt and Paraparaumu below.

Make an impact for your community at Kaibosh

Volunteers are at the heart of our work. In just a couple of hours a week you can make a real difference, helping to reduce food poverty and food waste in our communities.

Over 230 dedicated volunteers help Kaibosh Food Rescue at our three sites in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Te Awa Kairangai – Hutt Valley and Kāpiti. Our service for the community couldn’t work without them and we’re grateful to have so many wonderful people involved!

Volunteer Roles

We have a range of individual volunteer roles at our three sites – from Food Sorting and Weekend Market Food Rescue as part of a team, to Food Rescue Driver Support and Kitchen Food Prep. Current openings are listed below.

Please consider making a commitment of at least 6 months volunteering with us, due to the time spent with your induction and training.

Note, for organisations or groups: please get in touch with us to find out about other ways your team can support Kaibosh.

Volunteer Vacancies at Kaibosh

We use an online software called Volaby for our volunteer programme. To register your interest, simply click a link below to set up a profile on Volaby and a Kaibosh Volunteer Manager will be in touch.

Hutt Valley Volunteering

Lower Hutt based volunteer roles include Weekday Food Sorting, Kitchen Support and Operations Support on site at our premises in Pito-one; and Food Rescue Driver Support roles on weekdays or Saturday. All roles require a good level of fitness and lifting 15kg boxes.

Food Rescue Driver Support

About the role: Working with our Kaibosh drivers, food rescue volunteers are out and about in our vans, collecting quality surplus food from supermarkets around the Hutt Valley. A good level of fitness is required and lifting 15kg boxes.

Note: There are no current Food Sorting or Kitchen Support volunteer vacancies at Kaibosh Pito-one (December 2024) – however our rosters do change every few months, so we welcome sign ups to join our waitlist.

Wellington City Volunteering

Wellington volunteer roles include Weekday and Weekend Food Sorting as part of a team at our premises, Food Rescue Driver Support and Operations Support, and Weekend Market Food Rescue at the Newtown Market on Saturday and Harbourside Market on Sunday. All roles require a good level of fitness and lifting 15kg boxes.

Current vacancies:

Food Sorting – Monday morning (temp role)

Shift timings (approx): Monday mornings 9:30am – 11:30am

About the role:

Join our Pōneke team to help on busy Monday mornings at Kaibosh, working around our operations team who are distributing food boxes to our community partners.

We are seeking 2-3 people on this shift each Monday, full training provided. This is a temporary shift through the busy months with summer and seasonal fruit and vegetables.

This role involves:

Quality assessing and sorting food, allocating and packing food for partner charities to pick up
Weighing and entering data into our computer records
Cleaning and re-setting of our site to ensure it is ready for the lunchtime volunteer food sort shift, which starts at 12pm
The volume of food requiring to be sorted on a Monday morning will vary, mostly fresh produce from the weekend food rescue on a Sunday afternoon
Note – lifting of boxes up to 15 kg will be required

Please note, some weeks this shift will take the full 2 hours, or you may be only needed for an hour. This will depend on how much rescued food is left to process from the weekend and how long cleaning tasks take.

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Operations Support – Sparkle Squad team (ongoing role)

Shift timings (approx): Monday-Friday, 1:30pm- 2:30pm

About the role:

Be part of the amazing sparkle squad at the end of a Kaibosh Food Sorting shift, working around the volunteer food sorting team as they finish up. Bring your eye for detail and energy, to make our warehouse sparkle and shine so it’s clean, safe and ready for the next day at Kaibosh.

This role involves:

Sweeping and mopping floors and behind bins
Cleaning surfaces and sinks
Cleaning food crates
Other ad hoc cleaning tasks as required
From time to time, may involve some food sorting, allocating and weighing food if the regular food sorting team need extra support.

We need 1-2 people for this shift each day. Training provided.

Please note, if the regular food sort goes past 2pm, this shift may finish a bit later around 3pm.

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Interested in future volunteering opportunities in Pōneke? We welcome you to register and join our waitlist now.

Kāpiti Volunteering

Volunteer roles based at our Paraparaumu site include Food Rescue Driver Support, Weekday Food Sorting and Kitchen Food Prep. All roles require a good level of fitness to be standing for several hours, and Driver Support requires frequent lifting of 15kg boxes.