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

Fr. Alfred Center (FAC) provides a residential recovery program to homeless men who are ready to create sober and stable lives for themselves. The Fr. Alfred Center’s year-long, abstinence-based program empowers men with no income or resources with the tools to overcome addiction and the support to establish productive and healthy lives. The holistic treatment offered through St. Anthony’s multiple services is rare in the field of recovery, and allows for immediate assessment and thoughtful resolution of clients’ medical, legal, vocational and educational needs, most or all of which have been affected profoundly by the cycles of poverty and addiction. The Sous Chef assists with the preparation, planning, and serving of 3 meals a day for a residential facility of 80 men plus staff. The Sous Chef works as a member of a kitchen team to ensure high quality, tasty food is served in a respectful environment. 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

Staff Performance and Development

• Assists with the training and supervision of 4 kitchen assistants/dishwashers working in the kitchen area.
• Provide timely and regular feedback on staff performance.
• Ensure staff are professional, demonstrate good customer service skills towards guests and other community members. Role model and set the expectation that staff treats all individuals with dignity and respect.
• Facilitate team huddles for staff as needed.

Program Administration and Operations

• 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 functions of the position.
• Responsible for all aspects of preparing nutritious, good-tasting, well-presented, creative meals, in a climate of dignity and respect, for residents of the Father Alfred Center recovery program and staff.
• Responsible for cleanliness of the kitchen work area including the ovens, range, serving line, prep area, walk-in, food preparation equipment, and storage areas.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with sanitary food handling procedures and stock rotation systems.
• Assists with menu development, planning, and ordering.
• Monitors use of supplies in the kitchen. Utilizes donated foods and completes and maintains appropriate records and forms neatly and accurately.
• Facilitates and ensures a safe environment (with respect to health and safety hazards) in the kitchen. Observes safety procedures and precautions. Maintains awareness of and assists in the identification of workplace and job hazards.

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 equivalent experience. Food knowledge and creativity in order to produce quality menu items from varied food sources (purchases, donations, food bank, etc.).
• Minimum three years’ experience as a chef.
• Ability to supervise and train dish room staff for kitchen assistant duties.
• Experience working with and/or knowledge of issues affecting chemically-dependent adults preferred.
• Excellent supervisory and/or training skills along with ability to be an active and positive member of a team.
• Knowledge of safe, sanitary food handling procedures.
• Ability to move cases and bulk bags of food, and to perform the 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, direct reports, 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 remain awake and aware during all scheduled shifts.
• Ability to be punctual, reliable, cooperative, and stay team-oriented.
• P.R./First Aid certification preferred. Must complete certification within 3 months of hire.
• Experience working in a non-profit or community-based social service agency with people experiencing homelessness or poverty desired.
• Proficiency in a second language is strongly desired (Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, Cantonese).
• 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.