Position: Senior Cafe Assistant
Contract: Full time, (Friday - Tuesday)
Hours: 37.5 hrs
Remuneration: €15.00 - €15.50 an hour
Location: GROW HQ, Waterford
About GIY
GIY is an award-winning social enterprise dedicated to creating a movement of people connected to real food - organic, fresh, local, in-season food grown in living soil. GROW HQ, the home of GIY, opened in 2016 and features a multi-award winning farm-to-fork cafe, organic farm shop, organic training gardens and regenerative farm (at the Curraghmore Estate).
Position Summary
We’re on the lookout for a friendly, reliable, and hard-working Senior Cafe Assistant to join our team at GROW HQ. If you love great food, enjoy working with people, and want to be part of a mission-driven organisation, we’d love to hear from you.
This is a permanent role, we’re looking for someone who wants to grow with us. We need someone who can work midweek as well as weekends, across 5 days out of 7 on a rota basis, operating across our cafe, retail and education functions. This job will be from Fridays - Tuesdays (8:30am - 4:30pm) with the occasional evening event.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver a warm, friendly and professional customer experience, ensuring every guest feels genuinely welcomed and looked after.
- Provide confident, knowledgeable table service, including taking orders, serving food and drinks, processing payments and responding to customer queries.
- Act as a senior presence on the floor, supporting colleagues, helping coordinate service and stepping up to resolve issues when required.
- Develop a strong knowledge of our menu, ingredients and food ethos, and communicate the story behind our food, farm and local producers enthusiastically to customers.
- Help maintain high standards of service, presentation, cleanliness and organisation across the café and customer areas.
- Support the training and development of newer Front of House team members, leading by example and helping to create a positive, respectful and collaborative working environment.
- Work closely with the kitchen, café management and wider GROW HQ team to ensure smooth service, good communication and an excellent overall customer experience.
- Be able to oversee the day to day running of the front of house areas in the absence of the centre manager.
- This position may be ideal for someone with previous hospitality duty management or an assistant banqueting/restaurant manager looking to branch into a more” Life friendly” role.
Skills & Qualifications
We are looking for an experienced person who shares GIY’s culture, vision and values. Our ideal candidate would have the following experience:
- Strong FOH experience, including in senior server roles or formerly worked as a duty manager or restaurant manager
- Strong, customer-facing experience and strong communications skills
- Must be able to operate on your own initiative and take ownership of tasks
- Team player who values integrity and respect
- Has a passion for healthy, seasonal, local and home-grown food
Requirements
- Duty or Restaurant Manager: 1 year (required)
- Must have work permit to work in Ireland
Application Process
Please apply with your CV and a cover letter explaining your fit with the criteria outlined above to career to careers@giy.ie. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.
