FULL-TIME VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR – NORTH BRANCH, MN 

Are you passionate about building community connections? Are you organized, people-focused, and energized by helping others succeed? Do you want to be part of a mission-driven team that makes a real difference in your local community? If this sounds like you, we invite you to join Family Pathways as our Volunteer Coordinator. 

The Volunteer Coordinator plays a vital role in supporting the mission of Family Pathways by recruiting, training, and engaging volunteers across all program areas—including the Food Shelf, Thrift Stores, Aging Services, and Domestic Violence Programs. This position ensures that volunteers feel valued, supported, and empowered to make a difference. You’ll work closely with program staff to match volunteers with opportunities where they can have the greatest impact, while ensuring an excellent experience for both the volunteers and the communities we serve. The Volunteer Coordinator champions Family Pathways’ core values: trust, collaboration, communication, integrity, respect, positivity, and creativity. 

Who You Are: 

• Knowledgeable about recruitment, screening, interviewing, directing orientations, and training new, established, short-term, and long-term volunteers. 

• Capable of collaborating with others to oversee volunteer scheduling, keep open communication, delegate projects, and execute volunteer recognition events, as well as volunteer recruitment fairs, while abiding by the department budget. 

• Able to travel to different locations to meet with staff and volunteers, to assess needs and build relationships.  

• Comfortable with maintaining volunteer files, keeping records of activities, preparing reports, volunteer risk management, volunteer compliance requirements, and managing database information through Abila and Volgistics. 

• Excited to work with the Director of Advancement to communicate volunteer needs, successes, and participation opportunities for events and activities. 

Who We Are:  

Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and - together with the community - champions positive social change. We have been committed to standing by the side of our neighbors since 1978. We’ve done this by working together with partners, individuals, businesses, organizations, and faith communities who are passionate about their communities.  

Over the past four decades, we’ve adapted to the needs of the communities we serve in the City of Forest Lake; Carlton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, and Pine Counties in Minnesota and Polk County in Wisconsin. Family Pathways support services provide healthy food access, domestic and sexual violence prevention and victim services, supervised visitation, and services for older adults and caregivers.  

What You Get in Return  

• Starting Salary: $22.00/Hour  

• Work-Life Balance: Operating Hours: Monday-Friday 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.  

• Benefits: Family Pathways offers competitive pay and benefits to our eligible employees. Benefit eligibility is based on average hours worked per week. Benefits offered include health insurance with optional HSA, dental, vision, employer-paid group life term insurance, supplemental group term life insurance, AD&D, long-term disability, short-term disability, critical illness, accident insurance, employee assistance program, and retirement plan with an employer match. In addition to these benefits, Family Pathways offers full-time employees a competitive paid time off package, which includes paid holidays and floating holidays.  

Family Pathways is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. Family Pathways will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based upon a person’s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, status with regard to  public assistance, age, sexual or affectionals orientation, familial status, ancestry, local human rights commission activity, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other protected class.