 FOOD SERVICES SPECIALIST: 10 hours / week |
Rainbow Heights Club currently serves over 400 members, and has a staff of 12, including a psychologist, social workers, peer specialists, student interns, and volunteers. Our clients are lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender adult individuals who are living with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, mental retardation, developmental disability, and substance and alcohol use issues. Our work is extremely effective: 90% of the people who come to Rainbow Heights Club remain hospitalization free. We are seeking outstanding, motivated, knowledgeable, energetic, charismatic, and experienced people to help us expand our team.
The position of Food Service Specialist oversees provision of nutritious meal planning toward improved health and wellness for club members. Reporting directly to the Director of Member Services, the Food Service Specialist is a professional with expertise in menu planning, wholesale purchasing, inventory control, and food service program coordination. The right candidate for the position will be able to provide quality food service to adult individuals living with mental illness and to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender consumer community. This is a part-time position.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Report to and take direction from the Director of Member Services (DMS)
- Oversee and coordinate all aspects of agency meals program, including planning of nutritious weekly meals menu, budgeting, shopping
- Seek and utilize input from staff and member volunteer chefs to develop weekly meals menu
- Increase program capacity to provide practical, healthy meals within a budget by improved wholesale purchasing and coordinated menu planning
- Submit orders to purveyors on weekly basis; shop for supplemental food needs as necessary
- Develop and implement improved inventory controls
- Other tasks as assigned.
The following are requirements for the positions:
- Minimum high school graduate or GED
- Prior experience working in the food service industry providing meal planning, purchasing, inventory management
- A professional attitude while maintaining a flexible, reliable, patient, organized, trustworthy, supportive, and kind mindset. You must be competent to work with people from many different racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.
- Regardless of your sexual orientation or gender identity, you must be proud of and comfortable with it, and you must be ready, willing, and able to discuss these topics with Rainbow Heights Club consumers.
- You must be comfortable with, knowledgeable about, and sensitive to issues related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and individuals living with mental illness.
Compensation is hourly and is commensurate with experience.
Qualified candidates with requisite experience should forward a cover letter (with 2 recent professional references) and resume to: Jobs@Rainbowheights.org . We are an EOP. Persons from communities of color and persons living with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
No phone calls please.
