Relief Kitchen Coordinator

Job title: Relief Kitchen Coordinator Reports to: Operations & Client Services Manager

Start Date: Immediately Category: Relief (On-Call/Casual),

Hours & Compensation: $28.50 hour OPSEU Bargaining Unit: Yes

**About Us and Summary of the Role**
- Mission_

North York Women's Shelter actively supports the rights of women and children to build lives free of violence by providing non-judgmental safe shelter, advocacy, and a range of programs & services including 24-hour crisis support.
- Vision_

Our vision is to create a community characterized by gender equality where women and their children feel empowered and safe and all services are provided according the NYWS’s Trauma-Informed Key Principles.
- Purpose_

The Relief Kitchen Coordinator is responsible for, and assisting the Food Security Coordinator with, providing meal preparation and receiving and stocking food deliveries. This role will be responsible for maintaining health, safety and food standards while providing a welcome environment in the kitchen.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the preparation of nutritionally sound and cultural specific meal.
- Deep knowledge and comfort with preparing Caribbean, South Asian, Latin American and continental African meals.
- Coordinate the purchase of food, supplies and equipment required, when necessary.
- Compliance with approved operational food budget.
- Ensure that optimal food safety standards are maintained at all times.
- Oversee all kitchen volunteers

General and Related Responsibilities
- Oversee all kitchen volunteers
- Takes personal responsibility to increase sensitivity, awareness and work-related activities related to Trauma Informed Practice - Key Principles
- Adheres to NYWS policies and procedures
- Works respectfully and maintains confidentially with clients, co-workers and the organization
- Fills kitchen maintenance request reports with Operations and Client Service Manager
- Other duties as required

**Qualifications and Skills**
- Graduate of two-year culinary arts program and/or equivalent training and work experience
- Current Safe Food Handling Certificate
- Minimum 3 years' experience in agencies with food programming catering to diverse populations
- Current CPR and First Aid certificates
- Satisfactory Vulnerable Sector Checks (PVSC) with future checks
- Able to successfully work from an anti-racist/anti-oppression and trauma-informed practice framework
- Excellent professional and empathetic communication skills, as well as strong problem-solving skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to set priorities
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a strong dynamic team
- Ability to work collaboratively in a pet-friendly environment
- Strong adherence to ethical policies, procedures, and exercises a high degree of confidentiality and privacy of iinformation as outlined in NYWS policies and procedures, as well as in Trauma-Informed Practice - Key Principles
- Ability to work collaboratively in a pet-friendly environment
- Strong adherence to ethical policies, procedures, and exercises a high degree of confidentiality and privacy of information as outlined in NYWS policies and procedures, as well as in Trauma-Informed Practice - Key Principles

**Physical Requirements**
- Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment and adhere to COVID-19 infection prevention principles
- Able to lift, up to and including, 30lbs; sit and/or stand for extended periods of time and reach with arms/hands. Walking, standing, bending, stooping, reaching, twisting, lifting, pushing, pulling and moving items is occasionally
- Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly on telephone
- Exposure to illnesses such as cold and influenza on a weekly basis
- Exposed to loud sounds and high noise levels on a weekly basis
- Exposed to possible risks of managing conflicts amongst women and children in crisis
- Exposure to external threats (abusive partners)
- As employees of an organization committed to harm-reduction, exposure to women who may be under the influence of substances including, but not limited to
- Exposure to pets on a regular basis
- Must, at all times, be able to function effectively and accountably with women, children, and adolescents who may have mental or behavioral challenges. The staff must be able to demonstrate appropriate daily behavior, express appropriate emotions. Hostility, aggression and unnecessary or inappropriate physical actions as well as inappropriate emotional expression are no

**Application**
- In accordance with our feminist, anti-racist and anti-oppressive framework, NYWS is committed to the development of an organization that reflects the communities that we serve._

Position vacant until filled.