Catering Coordinator

**About the Role**

We are on the hunt for a vibrant Catering Coordinator to join our ever-growing social enterprise team at The Little Social.

We want someone that is excited at the opportunity to share their skills and knowledge with the future generation and has the skills to help create a unique and socially conscious experience behind every purchase at The Little Social.

The Catering Coordinator will be the central point of contact for the day-to-day oversight of our catering services. You will also coordinate deliveries, invoicing and building customer retention and vendor relationships. This is the perfect role for a true all-rounder that likes to keep a lot of plates slipping at once

**Location**: The role will work mobile, delivering all offsite catering in our brand-new TLS van

**About you**

You will be a superstar organiser that can provide the highest levels of customer service in a hospitality and catering environment while also loving the back-end admin work, you naturally see how all the pieces fit together.

You are someone that is full of creative ideas, and you have the drive to roll your sleeves up to bring those ideas to life. Problem-solving comes naturally to you and you can draw on your critical thinking skills to come up with a range of solutions when situations arise.

You’re full of creative ways to meet our customers and team members where they are at and believe that engagement shouldn’t be a one size fits all model. You always see the person, not just their immediate situation because you understand that everyone has different needs, and that is okay.

The idea of joining a project at the start, ironing out the kinks as you go fills your cup.

**Key requirements for this role**
- Experience in managing or coordinating service delivery in a hospitality environment
- Passion for social change and an enthusiasm for mentoring disadvantaged young people to help their success
- Team-first approach
- Drivers License

**A little bit about us, The Little Social**

The Little Social is a bespoke coffee bar that brews the finest espresso and empowers young people to lead meaningful lives by providing hands-on skills development and mentoring from industry experts. Each young person has a platform at The Little Social to build self-confidence, gain key employability skills and genuine work experience in a supportive and judgement free environment. Our cafes harness community goodwill towards social and economic sustainability and ethical business and invests profits into innovate and grow within a social justice framework - reaffirming our vision of young people being good-to-go into a competitive job market.

The Little Social is powered by Youth Projects - an independent, registered charity who provides front line support to individuals and young people experiencing disadvantage, homelessness, unemployment, alcohol and other drug issues through a range of holistic and wrap around support services. Youth Projects is on a mission to provide high impact support, without judgement, full stop.

**Why would you work with us?**

Every day you spend working with us, you’re making a difference. The stronger our frontline warriors, the bigger our impact of breaking the cycle of disadvantage. We think that’s a pretty great perk, but we don’t stop therehere are some of the others;
- Guaranteed hours and shifts
- Access to generous salary packaging
- Access to meals & entertainment benefits
- Supervision, coaching and professional development
- Uncapped Employee Assistance Program
- Plus, additional paid leave including parental, wellbeing, family violence and study

**Sounds like you'd vibe at The Little Social?**

**Send through your resume + a cover letter by letting us know why you're the best person for the role**
- Please note is a requirement of all Youth Projects positions that the successful applicant holds a valid Working with Children’s Check, Police Check and is vaccinated for Covid-19._

**Our commitment to diversity**

**Safety screening**

Youth Projects has a zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the provision of a child-safe organisation. All Youth Projects staff must undergo Police and Working with Children Checks.