Grace Farms Careers

Grace Farms, 365 Lukes Wood Rd. New Canaan, CT

Responsibilities

About Grace Farms 

Grace Farms is a center for culture and collaboration in New Canaan, Connecticut. We bring together people across sectors to explore nature, arts, justice, community, and faith at the SANAA-designed River building, situated on 80 acres of natural landscapes. Our humanitarian work to end modern slavery and foster more grace and peace in our local and global communities includes leading the Design for Freedom movement to eliminate forced labor in the building materials supply chain.

The Role:

As a Marketing Project Coordinator, you’ll be a key member of the Marketing team, supporting the strategic goals of the organization. Your primary focus will be managing marketing projects and collateral assets. In this role, you’ll monitor project timelines, ensure deadlines are met, and coordinate with internal teams. You’ll be responsible for creating and maintaining project documentation and facilitating communication between team members and stakeholders. Through these efforts, you’ll help the marketing team and other departments reach their project goals, expand our presence across various channels, and support our brand identity as we continue to grow and evolve.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the Project Manager with information and project intake, task scheduling, and project maintenance.
• Plan, define, and manage project timelines to ensure proper movement through the campaign execution process to ensure the accuracy and timely delivery of assets.
• Provide feedback and improvements to enhance project outcomes.
• Coordinate collateral requests; Create and maintain comprehensive, interactive, and actionable meeting notes to ensure maximum communication is achieved across all levels internal and external.
• Maintain project management system to ensure all workstreams are up-to-date and processes are properly documented and communicated.
• Creatively identify efficiencies in production workflow, campaign execution, and improvements to internal stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain relationships with local business to optimize promotional opportunities.
• Implement local marketing strategies, including poster distribution in Fairfield County.
• Update on-site collateral weekly.
• Manage community outreach efforts, including event calendar updates and targeted promotions.
• Support the marketing team in developing and executing event campaigns.
• Perform regular updates to gracefarms.org and designforfreedom.org.
• Monitor and ensure digital information (particularly upcoming events), is current across multiple communication channels.
• Prepare and optimize images for web use.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Proven working experience in Project management and/or Marketing experience.
• Knowledge of digital marketing channels (web and social media) required.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and/or Adobe InDesign strongly preferred.
• Strong research skills with an eye for detail and organization of information.
• Proven team player with ability to build strong working relationships internally and externally.
• Outstanding interpersonal, oral and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated collaborative team player who can seek information from other departments, translate and share that information effectively and in a timely manner.
• Self-starter who excels with deadline-oriented milestones and can shift with changing priorities. Strong organizational skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced team environment.
• Highest level of integrity with demonstrable record of handling confidential information with discretion.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required with preference given to Communications & Marketing majors.
• 3-4 years of professional experience within a corporate or non-for-profit communications team.

Physical requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, navigate the site to various locations, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
• Light to moderate lifting may be required.

Benefits

Grace Farms offers a competitive benefit package that includes a choice of medical plans, a dental and vision plan, 100% employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term disability and a 403(b)-retirement benefit with an organization match. We encourage our staff to take time-off to rest and recharge and provide PTO, sick, and personal days as well as 11 paid holidays. All staff are welcome to explore the beautiful 80-acres of our preserved land and may take part in any of the numerous public events on-site.

Grace Farms is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Grace Farms, 365 Lukes Wood Rd. New Canaan, CT

Responsibilities

About Grace Farms 

Grace Farms is a center for culture and collaboration in New Canaan, Connecticut. We bring together people across sectors to explore nature, arts, justice, community, and faith at the SANAA-designed River building, situated on 80 acres of natural landscapes. Our humanitarian work to end modern slavery and foster more grace and peace in our local and global communities includes leading the Design for Freedom movement to eliminate forced labor in the building materials supply chain.

The Role:

The Café Manager strategically oversees, with a keen eye for detail, the daily operations of the Front of House (FOH) of the Grace Farms Commons as well as the internal catering service. This manager is ultimately responsible for ensuring that: 1) the culinary and beverage offerings are presented, sold and served in a most welcoming, safe, efficient and clean environment by staff who are exceptional at providing superior customer service and that; 2) all internal based catering for events, tours, space grants and other programs occurring on site align with the needs and requests for each event in the most exemplary and timely manner each and every time.

Duties:

• Prepares, mentors and utilizes FOH Supervisor to execute daily functions in café operations & catering. Works closely with the FOH Supervisor to provide ongoing training, performance assessment, hiring, coaching and deployment of FOH team (Café Associates) for optimal efficiencies and coverage.
• Leads by example, working FOH shifts with the team serving internal and external customers throughout each week as well as events and other internal catering occasions.
• Oversees the food and beverage (F&B) aspects of all events. Manage and execute F&B services, including coordinating both internal and external catering. Work closely with the events team to ensure seamless service and exceptional guest experiences. Oversees and executes event setups, ensuring proper food and beverage is set up and displayed in the most appealing and logical way.
• Serves as the point of contact for communications with internal colleagues regarding catering needs, work order preparation and execution. Works closely with the Director of Events, Catering & Visitor Experiences, the Chef de Cuisine and the COO on operational needs, changes and improvements to the FOH.
• Prepares the FOH staff with operational, catering and visitor experience information and training so that they can execute their functions with excellence and have the ability to speak confidently with guests about all of the Foundations’ offerings. Instills a contagious and palpable positive, welcoming, energy that creates a world class experience for all visitors and staff who visit the Commons at Grace Farms.
• Seeks and implements efficiencies in café operations considering staffing models, ergonomics, customer communications vehicles and product placement.
• Ensures quality control on all FOH aspects including specials displays, tea tastings, menu placement, overall FOH cleanliness and operations.
• Performs all administrative duties associated with FOH Café & Catering operations including, but not limited to: scheduling, timecards, inventory, ordering, work orders, FOH staff communications/training and coaching.
• Oversees café POS system. Ensures its proper functionality, analyzes reports and recommends changes/enhancements based on data trends.
• Adjusts café services for specific events, such as setting up catering stations, organizing pre-event and post-event refreshment services, and accommodating special requests from event organizers.
• Coordinates with the Events Team to plan and order additional supplies for events, such as alcohol, wares, & décor. Coordinates with external vendors to secure items needed for events, such as rentals, and food.
• With the Chef de Cuisine, ensures compliance with health and safety regulations during both regular operation and events with an emphasis on cleanliness, food safety and staff/visitor well-being.
• Promotes sustainable practices in the FOH operations such as sourcing local and ethical products, in line with Grace Farms’ values.
• Other duties as needed or as assigned.

Qualifications

Skills & Abilities:

• Must enjoy and have a passion for the food & beverage and hospitality industries.
• Proven ability to lead, manage, coach, mentor and inspire a team effectively.
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills are a must with ability to extend kindness, patience, with every interaction.
• Proven ability to work comfortably and effectively with computers, POS systems and other visitor facing technologies.
• Must be an experienced team player who is highly organized, adaptable and flexible to meet time, priority and workload demands as well as shifting schedules and unexpected circumstances that come with working with the general public and managing employees.
• Must be able to maintain a calm exterior presence during periods of high volume, high stress, or unusual events.
• Must possess the highest level of integrity defined as being incredibly ethical, professional, responsible, truthful, authentic honest and fair.
• Must be able to work weekends and evenings as needed

Education & Experience:

• Must have a minimum of 2 years prior supervisory experience as catering, café, coffee shop, small business restaurant manager or similar industry role, with supervisory oversight of a team. Preferably with progressive-growth experience in both FOH and BOH industry related roles.
• High School diploma or equivalent is required. Some college greatly preferred.

Physical requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, navigate the site to various locations, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
• The employee occasionally required to climb, stoop, kneel or crouch.
• The employee must occasionally lift, push and/ or move up to 50 pounds.

Benefits

Grace Farms offers a competitive benefit package that includes a choice of medical plans, a dental and vision plan, 100% employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term disability and a 403(b)-retirement benefit with an organization match. We encourage our staff to take time-off to rest and recharge and provide PTO, sick, and personal days as well as 11 paid holidays. All staff are welcome to explore the beautiful 80-acres of our preserved land and may take part in any of the numerous public events on-site.

Grace Farms is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Grace Farms, 365 Lukes Wood Rd. New Canaan, CT

Responsibilities

About Grace Farms:

Grace Farms is a center for culture and collaboration in New Canaan, Connecticut. We bring together people across sectors to explore nature, arts, justice, community, and faith at the SANAA-designed River building, situated on 80 acres of natural landscapes. Our humanitarian work to end modern slavery and foster more grace and peace in our local and global communities includes leading the Design for Freedom movement to eliminate forced labor in the building materials supply chain.

Duties:

• Sort and rinse dirty dishes, glass, tableware and other cooking utensils and place them in racks to send through dish machine.
• Sort and stack clean dishes. Carry clean dishes to cook’s line and other proper storage areas. Rewash soiled dishes before delivering.
• Wash pots, pans and trays by hand.
• Prepares trays for incoming order tickets with silverware, napkins, etc. that are appropriate for each order. Ladles out soup/popcorn for orders as appropriate for each tray that requires it.
• Ensures communication in the kitchen by calling out orders, getting the status on dishes and calling out names/number of completed dishes to visitors when there is a back-up of outgoing orders.
• Informs the Front of House Associates when certain dishes or ingredients have run out and passing food requests from the Café Associate to the kitchen.
• Performing the finishing touches to completed dishes, such as adding garnishes and removing smudges.
• Promotes a safe and clean service environment by supporting Grace Farms sanitation and cleanliness standards.
• Remove trash and garbage to dumpster.
• Sweep up trash around exterior of restaurant and garbage dumpster daily.
• Communicates on a high level with the kitchen team to expedite customer orders.
• Conduct general restaurant and restroom cleaning as directed.
• Maintains regular and consistent attendance and punctuality.
• Assisting the front of the house and back of the house staff as needed.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Skills/Abilities

• Ability to maintain high-energy throughout the day, and ability to remain calm, friendly and unflustered during high volume periods of operations.
• Ability to follow written and verbal directions in English.
• Able to count accurately.
• Able to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
• Highest level of integrity defined as being incredibly ethical, professional, responsible, truthful, authentic, honest, and fair.

Education & Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Customer service experience required, and food/beverage service preferred.
• Previous food, beverage, and kitchen experience preferred

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift up to 50lbs, bend, climb stairs, and stand for long periods of time.

Compensation: $20 per hour

Grace Farms is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.