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Form of workWhy work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?
YWCA SKS is the region's largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.
We're women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you'll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work – apply today!
What You'll Do
The Angeline's Day Center Meals Program Assistant will assist in all aspects in the Angeline's meal program, including providing effective training for food meal program interns, and volunteers. The Angeline's meal program serves thousands of nutritious meals to homeless women monthly. Angeline's offer nutritious meals up to 75 women at each meal. YWCA Angeline's Day Program is a drop-in program for homeless women. This program offers showers, meals, laundry facilities, mental health counseling, health care, classes and activities.
This position has a social justice component that will allow for critical thinking around how the external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Valuing diversity and championing anti-racism policy are core values. As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color to apply.
Schedule: Wednesday - Sunday 11:00 am to 7:30 pm
Responsibilities- Performs administrative duties: coordinating the weekly schedule, order food through Food lifeline, plan weekly menus and post meals daily.
- Manage our food quality standard by monitoring the temperature of hot and cold food according to health and safety standards.
- Responsible for all the supplies in storage rooms, freezers, walk in cooler, refrigerators and manage inventory rotation.
- Maintains adequate inventory of food and supplies, commodities, food banks, and other resources.
- Plans coordinates and participates as required in the preparation, cooking, serving food and pick up donations.
- Maintains kitchen, dining room, equipment in sanitary and organized condition.
- Works with crisis advocates to support clients' needs and ensure their safety in the dining room.
- 6 months to 1 year of Industrial/ quantity cooking; skilled in cooking and preparing a variety of meals and includes healthy food options
- Current Food Handlers Card and demonstrate ability in safe handling food + experience with commercial kitchen equipment.
- Must have valid Washington State Driver License, reliable transportation, insurance and an acceptable driving record. An acceptable driver's record is defined as less than two citations for moving violations or accidents within the past three years.
- Must pass YWCA driving test.
- Able to have oral and written communication; develop, plan and implement goals for kitchen
- Organizational skills to prioritize daily tasks, strong attention to detail, problem solve, positive attitude
- Ability to work with computer based programs, spreadsheets, excel, word, record keeping skills, outlook is required
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to social justice, racial and gender equity and the ability to ground those principles in everyday work.
- Hourly Rate: $21.00, DOE
- Hours: 40
- Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, retirement plan, plus generous vacation, holiday, and sick leave plans
- At the time of hire, employees may enroll voluntarily in the Fidelity 403b Plan
- After two years of employment, employees are eligible to participate in the YWCA Retirement Fund
- Ability to lift and carry loads up to 50 pounds multiple times a day
- Repetitively uses hands, and wrists, fingering, handling, grasping, reaching in using food, cleaning supplies and serving utensils
- Required to bend, reach, walk and stand for extended period of time
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YWCA encourages applicants with a variety of experiences to apply!
We recognize people gain knowledge, skills, and abilities through various experiences. For this reason, professional, academic, lived and volunteer/community-based experiences will all be considered in the application review process.
Vaccination Requirement
All new hires must be vaccinated in accordance with CDC guidelines before their first day of employment.
Mental Health Considerations
All employees of the YWCA interact with clients who have experienced or are experiencing trauma in various forms, including but not limited to, racial trauma, domestic violence, sexual violence, homelessness, unemployment, and financial hardship. As a result, employees are at risk of secondary trauma. We encourage employees to seek support inside and outside the workplace and maintain self-care routines.
Equal Opportunity Employment
YWCA Seattle King Snohomish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To read more about this, view the EEO is the Law Poster and this EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.
For more information
Contact us at careers@ywcaworks.org with any questions or if you need accommodation for your application.
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