About St. Anthony’s:

Founded in 1950, St. Anthony's is the most comprehensive safety net service center in San Francisco, directly providing food, clothing, medical care, addiction recovery services, access to technology, job training, and other critical resources to the community. Every day we support and are supported by thousands of San Franciscans. Everyone who comes through our doors joins the St. Anthony's family and helps us create a future where all people flourish.

Principal Responsibility:

St. Anthony’s Dining Room provides hot, nutritious meals daily (breakfast and lunch) in a welcoming community setting. As a Chef on the Dining Room team, you will assist in the preparation, planning, and serving of our high quality meals. In the spirit of our Franciscan values and heritage, our team provides compassion and care daily. As a steward of healing and social justice, you are expected to meet the following duties:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Food Service, Safety, and Production
• Responsible for preparing the daily meal and is responsible for the cleanliness and safety of the kitchen and on the serving line.
• Coordinate, train, and direct kitchen assistants, dishwashing staff, and volunteers on the serving line.
• Coordinate with Prep Chefs for daily prep work, meal kits, and completes prep sheets as needed. Fill in for Prep Chefs as needed.
• Responsible for the cleanliness of the kitchen work area including the ovens, steam kettles, serving line, prep area, walk-in freezer and fridge, food preparation equipment, and storage areas.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with sanitary food handling procedures and stock rotation systems.
• Assist with menu development, planning, and ordering.
• Monitor use of supplies in the kitchen. Complete and maintain appropriate records and forms neatly and accurately.
• Facilitate and ensure a safe environment (with respect to health and safety hazards) in the kitchen. Observe safety procedures and precautions. Maintains awareness of and assists in the identification of workplace and job hazards.
• Participate in regular training and development opportunities to increase personal capacity to apply innovative approaches to daily workflows, service delivery, and employee engagement.
Program Administration
• Complete reports and all other paperwork neatly, legibly, and thoroughly.
• Enter data and information electronically as required. Looks up data and reports electronically through a database as requested.
• Understand and follow the organization's programs, policies, and procedures.
• Participate in regular training and development opportunities to increase personal capacity to apply innovative approaches to daily workflows, service delivery, and employee engagement.
Teamwork
• Participate in relevant meetings supporting team communication and the program's capacity to fulfill organizational goals and mission.
• Collaboratively works with others to achieve team success.
• Manage stress and pressure situations calmly and responsively. Maintain the capacity to control reactions and awareness of how their behavior or response can impact others.
• Consistently demonstrate integrity while working and representing St. Anthony’s.
• Practice direct, respectful, open, and honest communication with their colleagues. Proactively seeks support from team members or management.
• Demonstrate cooperation with coworkers, management, and the community at large.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Culinary Degree or 4 years’ equivalent experience. Excellent food knowledge and creativity to produce quality menu items from varied food sources (purchases, donations, food bank, etc.).
• Minimum two years’ experience as a chef.
• Have a ServSafe Food Handlers/Managers Card or equivalent certification. Or willingness to complete training and certification within 30 days of employment.
• Ability to move cases and bulk bags of food, and to perform physical labor demanded by volume cooking (e.g., stirring steam kettles, lifting pans into and out of the ovens). Must be able to lift and carry 50 pounds.
• Excellent interpersonal, listening, oral, and written communication skills are required.
• Ability to be polite, diplomatic, and firm. Can set limits and practice professional boundaries with guests, volunteers, and coworkers.
• Ability to respond to emergencies and high-pressure situations in a self-composed and self-assured manner.
• Ability to work non-traditional hours and days (weekends and holidays required).
• Ability to complete paperwork neatly and legibly.
• Ability or willingness to learn to use information and communication technologies (computers, smartphones, and iPads) to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information.
• Ability to be punctual, reliable, cooperative, and stay team-oriented.
• Experience working in a non-profit or community-based social service agency with people experiencing homelessness or poverty preferred.
• Commitment to St. Anthony Foundation Statement of Values and a desire to work for a social services agency serving the poor.

St. Anthony’s has a diverse workforce, welcoming all ethnicities, faith backgrounds and worldviews. We are also proudly Catholic. Our Franciscan identity is at the core of our mission, namely to uphold the dignity and value of the human person and lift the spirits of those in need to help create a society in which all person's flourish.
People of color, differently-abled people, LGBT, and folks with lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply.
St. Anthony's is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity of culture, thought, and lived experiences. We seek talented, qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, conviction history, uniform service membership/veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical conditions, genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression regardless of physical gender, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.
St. Anthony's uses E-Verify to validate our new employees' eligibility to work legally in the United States.

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