Location: Kent,OH, USA
* Job Description
**Catering Manager**
Title Catering Manager Location Down House, Luxted Road, Downe, Orpington, Kent, BR6 7JT Salary 20,342, 36 hours per week Job type Permanent Ref 13777 our team at Down House - The home of Charles Darwin, the place where Charles Darwin wrote his ground breaking book 'On the Origin of Species'
We're looking for an exceptional Catering Manager to join our team, delivering delicious food from the Darwins very own family kitchen with recipes from Emmas Darwin recipe book being recreated for our visitors to enjoy. This role brings unique challenges and opportunities for success and no two days are the same!
You will be responsible for ensuring our tea room and pop up catering outlets play their part in delivering a fantastic experience for all our visitors.
As part of the management team you will lead, train and coach our staff to deliver the highest standards of food, presentation, safety and customer service. You will focus on building the capability of the team, driving results and controlling costs to ensure we make a surplus for the charity. Working with colleagues you will develop local and seasonal menus and identify new opportunities at site.
You will understand exactly what it takes to deliver excellent customer service and have experience of supervising a catering operation, delivering staff training and managing team performances. You will set and maintain high standards of safety and hygiene and be great at keeping records of these.
This role is a full time full year position and requires flexibility and working weekends and bank holidays is to be expected.
We strive to be an inclusive employer and are always looking for people who reflect the diversity of the country today, to help us make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities and places we serve. We continually look for new ways to promote the past in a way that is inclusive to all and that celebrates the cultural diversity of England's heritage.
From remote sites to inner city monuments, from regional teams to our Head Office, the diversity of our teams is critical to making sure our shared heritage is inclusive, exciting and accessible.
You'll find it's a workplace like no other - taking you behind the scenes of these extraordinary sites and supporting you to share your ideas, inspire others and make a difference.
By joining us, you'll enjoy the rewards of a great team environment in inspiring locations, helping to make our site a wonderful place to visit. You'll also be joining our charity, which through our 400+ historic monuments, buildings and sites, brings the story of England to life for over 10 million visitors each year. We offer a competitive benefits package including a generous pension, 25 days leave a year and free entry to all English Heritage properties for you, another adult and up to 6 children (under the age of 19).
**Closing date:** 06/12/2021 23:59:59
**You will need to refer to the following documents when completing your application.**