Thursday 15 May 2014

We're hiring a student for the summer!! Apply by May 23!!

We're hiring a student for the summer!! Apply by May 23!!

Summer Student Café Assistant and Community Programmer: The Minga Dunnville
Overview
The Minga is a café and community centre owned and operated by DREAM, a charitable organization supporting local youth. Following the principles of the triple bottom line (upholding social, environmental and financial sustainability), the Minga Café serves fair trade, local and organic drinks and snacks. The Café Assistant will assist in the day-to-day operations of the food counter, kitchen and community centre space.
Job Description:
Counter duties:
• Food preparation
• Make teas, coffees, lattes and other drinks
• Carry out day-to-day hygiene and cleaning duties
• Support and implement health and safety policies: checking bathrooms, food labeling and record keeping.
• Serve customers and take orders.
• Manage cash and the cash register
• Ensure the café area is stocked with supplies and clean and tidy
Customer Service:
• Provide a high level of customer service at all times
• Dress professionally with neat and well kept general appearance.
• Ensure all comments and complaints are logged and dealt with in a courteous manner.
Community Programming:
• Promote and remain up to date on activities and events in the centre.
• Assist in established community programs at the Minga when requested including but not limited to camp programs, the ‘By the Willow’ hospice program, and art classes.
• Develop new programming for the community emphasizing the inclusion of marginalized groups.
• Attend committee meetings when requested.
Health and Safety:
• Follow health and safety duties as specified by Public Health Food Handling and WSIB policies.
Other:
• Any other duties as assigned
• Attend meetings and training as agreed.
Qualifications Required:
General:
• is between 15 and 30 years of age (inclusive) at the start of employment;
• was registered as a full-time student during the preceding academic year;
• intends to return to school on a full-time basis during the next academic year;
• is a student in a secondary, post-secondary, CEGEP (Quebec only), vocational or technical program;
• is a Canadian Citizen, permanent resident, or person on whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act* and;
• is legally entitled to work according to the relevant provincial / territorial legislation and regulations.
Specific:
• Previous experience in food preparation and counter service
• Food Handling Certification: training will be provided
• Previous customer service experience
• Comfortable working as part of a small team.
• Be enthusiastic in creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages.
• Programming experience is an asset.
• A Vulnerable Police Records Check is required.
Contract of Employment:
The successful applicant will be employed by DREAM for 30 hours/week for 8 weeks at $11.00 per hour. The distribution of hours is negotiable. 

Applying:
Please send a cover letter and resume by May 23, 2014 to the attention of Frances Porter at 146 Queen St. Dunnville, Ontario N1A 1H7. DREAM is an equal opportunity employer and encourages Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities to apply. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those under consideration will be contacted for an interview.

Tuesday 8 April 2014

Greetings Minga fans,

It just took me so long to log in to this blog to update.  Google apparently owns everything on the internet now and they really want me to interact and interface and googleplus and all kinds of things that I didn't really want to do. I had to sign in and log on and update this and that, and well, at last, here I am.  Feeling a bit tired out by the journey to get here, victoriously signed in and updating The Minga Project Blog (insert roar of trumpets or something here. I remember we used to have some downloaded sounds called 'fanfares' that we'd play when the kids were ready for school in the morning. Boy we thought that was hilarious. Not sure if the kids did, it being morning and none of them really being morning people, I think we may have just been irritating to them.)

So I have to tell you that Lacie, the First Fearless Minga Manager has moved on to pursue her passions in art and writing and travel. There is no way anyone could have done as much as she did to get The Minga up and running.  She worked her butt off and all of us are super grateful that she hung in, put up with, smiled despite and kept on truckin'! We wish her huge success and much happiness in her next adventures.  We hope she'll exhibit a show of her work on the Minga walls, in the not too distant future.  

Since Lacie's gone from The Minga and I have taken on some of her duties. Updating this blog for one.  I've also been making a lot of soup.  Feeling pretty excited about the Vegetable Noodle Soup I made today.  
Next time I won't cook the noodles in the soup though, the whole thing was a mushy (but delicious) mess by the end of the day.  It actually would've made a perfect filling for a pot-pie, and I considered making a pastry but instead I just shared the last few bites with my little friend Grover (who was pretty sad that there weren't any noodles left in the 'chicken noodle soup' I offered him. Bad enough that I lied to a 2 year about it being chicken soup, never mind that the noodles had fallen apart.)

Wow, weird rambley update, but one has to start somewhere doesn't one?  If you don't want to wait until I update this again then I suggest you head on over to Facebook http://www.facebook.com/theminga and follow us, or like us, or whatever it is we have to do over there.  The facebook does get updated fairly frequently and it's probably the best way to get in touch. Well, no, the best way of course would be to come on into The Minga and visit in person, you know, REAL LIFE SOCIAL NETWORKING!  Wow, sorry for the caps, I didn't mean to yell but I drank a considerable amount of coffee today and it's almost midnight now and well, I got a bit carried away.

I'll leave you with a nice photo of some very nice people, including my friend Grover and his beautiful mom, getting their Tuesday night Table Tennis on.  (Frances crosses 'update minga blog' off list and again, the fanfare plays)


See you soon!
Frances