Food Service Coordinator

Maryland Nonprofits; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Helping Up Mission, Inc. is seeking a Food Services Coordinator to assist the Food Services Manager in daily operations, ensuring safe, nutritious meals for residents, while modeling core values and professional conduct.

You will lead work-therapy food service activities, train clients on safety and hygiene, supervise dining room staff, and maintain documentation for meals, inventories, and inspections in a compassionate, faith-based setting.

Qualifications

• Exhibit the Core Values of Helping Up Mission, Inc.
• Strong verbal communications skills and demonstrated ability to write clearly.
• Strong leadership ability.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds in a fair, supportive, and cooperative manner.
• Food Safety Certification.

Responsibilities

• Act as a role model to HUM program clients and help them to adjust to the program & community.
• Teach kitchen hygiene, food service, planning, preparation, storage & proper handling to the clients assigned to work therapy in this department.
• Lead clients on the daily work therapy tasks.
• Work with clients to instill a solid work ethic & professionalism.
• Complete documentation of individuals who fail to follow departmental procedures.
• Assist and coordinate the preparation of meals with the Food Services Manager.
• Prepare and serve nutritious meals daily while adhering to food safety regulations and guidelines.
• Leadership and supervision of dining room crews regarding setup and service of meals.
• Orientation of new workers in the food service department, and meeting with various work teams to review their adherence to our job descriptions.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of all areas of the kitchen and dining room.
• Oversee completion of daily, weekly, monthly, and annual cleaning and preventive maintenance schedules.
• Adhere to food service protocols, i.e., implementation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points. principles in the storage, production, holding, service and reheating of all foods.
• Working with other leaders to maintain a smooth flow through the facility.
• Create a client work therapy schedule.
• Train clients on food safety, preparation, and work ethics.
• Maintain and establish relationships with volunteers and donors.
• Oversee the receipt of products and services.
• Oversee the logistics of receiving, storage and rotation of food from other HUM location.
• Facilitate all holiday food services, meals/events.
• Establish and maintain documentation records of food temperature, date of storage and handling.
• Maintain all applicable or required food safety certifications.
• Report daily, or as required, all pertinent information regarding food service operations to the Food Services Manager, e.g., adjustments to menus, recipes, or production amounts.
• Assist Food Services Manager in the performance of catered functions.
• Enter data from the MD Food Bank weekly.
• Transfer donation reports/receipts to Philanthropy monthly.
• Check all kitchen logbooks daily, weekly, monthly, and annually.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Core values

Verbal communication

Leadership

Diversity & inclusion

Food Safety Certification

Job description

Helping Up Mission, Inc. is a faith-based, non-denominational, Christian organization offering permanent solutions to those experiencing homelessness, poverty, and addiction. Helping Up Mission, Inc. (HUM) provides hope through programs designed to meet their individual physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. Compassionate residential care is given to almost 550 men and 250 women in need, without consideration of race, economic or religious status at its campus in East Baltimore. HUM provides competitive pay and benefits.

Job Summary

The Food Services Coordinator assists the Food Services Manager in the daily execution and preparation of all food services related requirements at the Helping Up Mission while adhering to the Core Values of the Mission.

Primary Duties

• Act as a role model to HUM program clients and help them to adjust to the program & community.
• Teach kitchen hygiene, food service, planning, preparation, storage & proper handling to the clients assigned to work therapy in this department.
• Lead clients on the daily work therapy tasks.
• Work with clients to instill a solid work ethic & professionalism.
• Complete documentation of individuals who fail to follow departmental procedures.
• Assist and coordinate the preparation of meals with the Food Services Manager.
• Prepare and serve nutritious meals daily while adhering to food safety regulations and guidelines.
• Leadership and supervision of dining room crews regarding setup and service of meals.
• Orientation of new workers in the food service department, and meeting with various work teams to review their adherence to our job descriptions.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of all areas of the kitchen and dining room.
• Oversee completion of daily, weekly, monthly, and annual cleaning and preventive maintenance schedules.
• Adhere to food service protocols, i.e., implementation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points. principles in the storage, production, holding, service and reheating of all foods.
• Working with other leaders to maintain a smooth flow through the facility.
• Create a client work therapy schedule.
• Train clients on food safety, preparation, and work ethics.
• Maintain and establish relationships with volunteers and donors.
• Oversee the receipt of products and services.
• Oversee the logistics of receiving, storage and rotation of food from other HUM location.
• Facilitate all holiday food services, meals/events.
• Establish and maintain documentation records of food temperature, date of storage and handling.
• Maintain all applicable or required food safety certifications.
• Report daily, or as required, all pertinent information regarding food service operations to the Food Services Manager, e.g., adjustments to menus, recipes, or production amounts.
• Assist Food Services Manager in the performance of catered functions.
• Enter data from the MD Food Bank weekly.
• Transfer donation reports/receipts to Philanthropy monthly.
• Check all kitchen logbooks daily, weekly, monthly, and annually.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

• Exhibit the Core Values of Helping Up Mission, Inc.
• Strong verbal communications skills and demonstrated ability to write clearly.
• Strong leadership ability.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds in a fair, supportive, and cooperative manner.
• Food Safety Certification.