Café Team Leader

Location: Oxford, OX1 1BP

Salary: £26,250 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full Time. Tuesday-Saturday 9am-5pm (negotiable

Probation: 3 months

Details

Our client's café is an important part of their art gallery, and the Cafe Team Leader is responsible for providing a welcoming, friendly environment, serving a high quality menu with excellent customer service. This is an operational and hands on role where the large majority of time is spent planning and preparing the café food and drinks and interacting with the general public. The Chef Manager is also responsible for the supervision and the rota management of the café staff and will collaborate closely with the Head of Commercial to maximise profits and further develop the Café in line with the Gallery’s aims and objectives.

Person Specification

Essential Skills & Experience

• Team Leadership in a café or restaurant environment.
• A passion for preparing good quality fresh food with the drive to create new recipes and experiment with new ideas that respond to the Gallery’s programme.
• Menu development experience, with the ability to change and adapt depending on visitors’ feedback.
• Excellent eye for detail and food presentation, a passion for artful food creation.
• A flexible, innovative and proactive approach to sales strategies and solutions.
• Experience of working in a similar café environment including exposure to the duties outlined above (specifically food preparation, cooking, stock ordering and management, cash handling and till usage).
• Level 2 or over NVQ Qualification or equivalent.
• Qualifications in Level 2 Hygiene, Food Allergens Awareness and Working in Licensed Premises. Willingness to train to Level 3.
• Barista experience, making a range of coffees and hot drinks.
• Understanding of Allergens and dietary requirements.
• Experience of negotiating prices with new suppliers.
• A high regard for customer service and satisfaction.
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative and without supervision.
• Staff management experience.
• You need to be enthusiastic, approachable and above all an absolute team player.

Desirable Skills &Experience

• Rota management experience.
• Flexibility to work some weekends & evenings.
• An interest in contemporary art.

Benefits

Employees are entitled to a staff discount in the organisation's Shop and Café. There is an Employee Assistance Programme through Gemelli, and a series of discounts and salary sacrifice schemes.

Notes

Our client is one of the UK’s most exciting and influential contemporary art organisations, renowned for its bold and ambitious artistic programme that promotes diversity and internationalism and celebrates contemporary art as a progressive agent of social change.

The organisation welcomes more than 100,000 visitors each year with 10,000 attendances in creative learning and participation activities. The organisation’s digital content reaches 450,000 through their digital channels annually. Through a wide range of high-quality content creation and programming, the organisation aims to make contemporary art accessible and engaging to the widest audience and to promote creativity in all of its visual forms. Over the last 50 years the organisation has brought some of the world’s most important artists to the city, and the UK, and has developed an international reputation for pioneering emerging and under-represented artists.

Closing Date: Ongoing - please complete your application ASAP to avoid disappointment.

The right is reserved to extend or close this role before the advertised date.

Interested?

To apply, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form where you can find out more information and complete your application by following the instructions.

The organisation is a registered charity and relies on core funding from Arts Council England and Oxford City Council, and the generous support of individuals, trusts and foundations, sponsors, and friends.

No agencies please.