Position: Mid-Senior level

Job type: Full-time

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A Career in Food and Beverage that gives back!

We’re recruiting a Food and Beverage Assistant Manager for our new café at Burton Mere Wetlands, the heart of our Dee Estuary Nature Reserve.

At The RSPB, we believe we’re all connected.

As the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, we think big and act boldly, hoping that one day we can see a world where wildlife, wild places, and all people thrive. Our Food and Beverage teams raise vital funds which enable us to carry out globally important conservation work in the race to save nature.

Our Location: Dee Estuary

One of the RSPB’s largest and most diverse reserves spanning over 6000 hectares straddling the England-Wales border. Our habitats range from tidal saltmarsh, mudflats, dune, and shingle beach to the freshwater reedbed, wet grassland, and ancient woodland at Burton Mere Wetlands, where our increasingly popular visitor facilities serve as the gateway to the estuary’s impressive wildlife spectacles.

The Role

Our Food and Beverage outlets are daytime operations, typical opening hours are between 9am and 5pm. The role will offer a flexible shift pattern of 5 days over 7, with weekend and occasional evening working.

Key Skills Areas
  • Supporting the Food and Beverage Manager and the Food and Beverage team in day-to-day operations.
  • Has commercial awareness, is able to monitor and deliver targets.
  • Builds and maintains strong working relationships, can work in a team and has good people management skills.
  • Provides a warm welcome for our visitors, is helpful and friendly with a positive attitude.
  • Maintains food hygiene and health and safety standards in the work environment.
  • Works in friendly, encouraging teams, with support from colleagues across the organisation.
What You Can Bring To The RSPB
  • A positive outlook, can-do attitude, willing to develop new skills and ask for help when needed.
  • A genuine desire to deliver amazing experiences for our visitors.
  • A passion for good food and drink.
  • Effective time management and people management.
  • Level 2 Food Safety. Desirable
  • Understanding of working EPOS systems. Desirable
  • GCSE Maths and English, or equivalent. Desirable
What can the RSPB offer you?
  • Discounts in RSPB Retail Shops, Cafes and Holiday Cottages
  • Daytime working, no split shifts
  • Free entry to RSPB Reserves
  • Investment in your Personal and Professional Development
  • Ability to define your own offer within the RSPB Menu Framework
  • RSPB Pension Scheme, with matching employer contributions
  • Health and Wellbeing support, including Employee Assistance Programme and free flu vaccine
  • We’re here to save nature. In addition to a meaningful career in Food and Beverage, each year you will receive an extra day of paid leave to spend volunteering for any charity or voluntary organisation of your choice.
Does this sound like you? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

For any questions or an informal chat about the role, please get in touch with Food and Beverage Area Consultant Kellie Craig: Kellie.Craig@RSPB.org.uk

This is a Permanent role for 37.5 hours per week. We are actively recruiting for this role.

You will be asked to complete an online application form where you can tell us how you meet the criteria set above and submit your CV as part of this application. Training, support, and development will be offered in this role.

The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Before applying for this role, we recommend visiting the site and reading through the candidate guidance notes attached to the top of this advert.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application
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Deadline: 02-07-2024

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