The Parish Trust’s Caffi Caredig is its own Mobile Coffee and Snack Bar, aimed at bringing people together, reducing food waste, and connecting people to our charitable work.
We are looking for an exceptional individual who will run and manage the charity’s mobile snack bar, making it a valuable and income generating arm of the charity’s work whilst helping us to reduce food waste, connect with the community, and raise the profile of The Parish Trust.
It is absolutely essential that the successful candidate can successfully run a catering business, connect with people, and cover all expenditure through their own planning to make this venture a success and secure a permanent position after the fixed term ends.
You will be able to tow the Caffi Caredig and find business through private events, food festivals, corporate opportunities, and other opportunities.
If you’re looking for an opportunity to start a mobile snack bar with all overheads paid for and without all of the startup costs, this position may be ideal for you.
Contract type: Fixed term for 6months, with the possibility of permanence based on performance.
Hours: To be determined by the successful candidate.
Pay: £24,472 p/a (pro rata)
Location: On site and Mobile
Reports to: CEO
Job description
What is the overall purpose of the role?
As manager of the Caffi Caredig, you will ensure that high quality and great value food and drink are prepared and served to customers from a clean, safe, and welcoming environment. You will be a roaming representative for The Parish Trust, raising its profile and helping to deliver its charitable objectives through the selling of ethical food and drink products and making the Caffi Caredig a profitable social enterprise.
Key activities and responsibilities
- Preparing and serving food, making coffee and tea and collecting money.
- Ensuring the café is fully stocked and can meet the menu at all times, planning and preparing snack bar food and drink, and managing the stock.
- Cleaning the Caffi areas, inside and outside and ensure they are safe and hygienic at all times.
- Check that all facilities, equipment or furnishings are in good order and to report any damage.
- Implementing a normal operating plan, ensuring correct opening and closing times and setting up and clearing down as required.
- Manage and monitor expenditure, stock, wastage and use-by dates.
- Ensuring the completion of daily financial reporting and cash handling and that all expenditure is covered by an invoice or receipt.
- Respond promptly and professionally to any customer feedback, comments or complaints.
- Being a welcoming face, ensuring excellent customer service.
- Be familiar and up-to-date with all policy and procedures of the charity, and all expectations and standards of food hygiene and safety, and implementing them.
- Uphold the highest standards of health and safety, cleanliness and professionalism and use your own initiative to respond quickly to issues or challenges that may arise during the course of your work.
- Finding opportunities for the Caffi to raise awareness of the charity, promoting the enterprise, and making connections with the community.
- Any other duties as would be expected to successfully run a mobile snack bar.
Personal Specification
You are…
- Passionate about charitable work
- Able to manage your own diary
- Self motivated, resilient, and willing to try new things.
- Results driven
- Passionate about delivering a high quality food and drink offer
- Friendly, cheerful, positive and motivated with every person or member of the public that uses the Caffi Caredig.
- A proven cook and manager, with business acumen and a flair for social enterprises.
Education, qualifications or experience
- Experience of working in a catering environment is essential
- In possession of a Level 3 Food Hygiene Certificate, and trained to all food hygiene and safety standards
- Barista experience is essential
- Ability to drive, and tow a vehicle (with experience of this) is essential.
- Knowledge of “Safer Food, Better Business”, risk assessment, and other food management systems and how they would be implemented in this environment.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Enjoys multi-tasking in a busy fast-changing environment
- Confident with simple mental arithmetic
- Positive about embracing challenge and change, open to experimenting and fresh ideas
- Looking for development and training opportunities
- Believer in supportive environments, sharing with colleagues, and a supporter of the charity’s overall objectives
