Responsibilities & Duties

The Dining Room Facilitator provides service to guests in setting tables, serving meals, storing leftovers, cleaning, and other routine work in the dining areas and other events

Dining Room/Event Serving

• Warmly greet all guests, including, but not limited to, visitors, volunteers, vendors, employees, guests, donors; homeless men, women, and children; community groups, church groups, and public officials
• Establish and build healthy Christ-honoring relationships with guests while maintaining professional boundaries, including guest confidentiality
• Maintain an environment of love, grace, dignity and respect
• Trains, leads and assigns tasks to the volunteers and holds the volunteers accountable for meeting mission, quality, safety, and other performance standards
• Monitors the dining room operation and the volunteers' performance
• Prepares schedules for volunteers, ensuring adequate coverage and appropriate distribution of assignments
• Monitors inventory of dining room supplies, ensuring that associates exercise appropriate cost controls; assists in ordering and/or maintaining inventory
• Monitors dining room to ensure the area is clean and in proper condition; notifies management of needed repairs and/or replacements and possible safety hazards
• Monitors available seating and directs guests to appropriate tables to ensure efficient distribution for the best possible service
• Communicate with kitchen employees to ensure appropriate dinnerware and equipment match to meals serviced
• Oversees and assists with dining-related programs such as special events, private parties, meal delivery, and guest dining
• Assists in maintaining appropriate department records such as reports, files, time records, and schedules
• Setup and teardown of all events related to the kitchen/dining team
• Assist with food preparation and serving

Other

• Complete reports as needed, including daily meal counts
• Assure health department standards are being followed
• Report any safety hazards to the maintenance department
• Attend professional training and networking opportunities as directed
• Manage employees’ web-based time and attendance records
• Attend staff devotions, community meetings, and staff meetings as directed by the Food Service Manager
• Support and attend GRM team meetings
• Provide weekly reports as directed
• Perform other duties as assigned

Gospel Rescue Mission is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit religious organization that provides social service programs to the homeless and working for poor populations. Everything we do in this ministry should be centered in the will of God and in honoring the name of Jesus Christ.

Employees of Gospel Rescue Mission Choose To Participate in our Grace Based Environment by:

• Role modeling Christ-like attributes and values through our personal actions, words, and attitudes.
• Maintaining a safe, transparent, and healing environment that is based on Grace, Truth, and Love, and encourages trust and authenticity without fear.
• Embracing the accountability process, that leads to self-evaluation personally and for guests and students.
• Teaching and mentoring students and guests in every opportunity by using Biblical precepts.
• Building healthy, loving, and compassionate relationships with guests, and employees while establishing healthy and safe boundaries.
• Maintaining a personal lifestyle of integrity, honesty, and responsibility.
• Praying with guests, and employees.
• Agreeing in principle and in practice with the statements of Vision, Mission and Values of the Gospel Rescue Mission of Tucson.

It is the policy of Gospel Rescue Mission to complete a background check, drug test and motor vehicle authorization on applicants in the conditional offer stage.

Employment Status:

• Full-time 40 hours per week; nonexempt; eligible for benefits; eligible for paid time off
• Anticipate Flexible Schedules

Reports to: Food Service Manager and Dining Room Lead Facilitator

Vacation Level: 1