EXCELLENT CAFE & CATERING SERVICES
Our Thyme Cafe realizes a long-time dream of the Elizabeth Fry Society. Based on a model of social enterprise Our Thyme Cafe and Catering provides an education and employment program for women and female youth experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness, involvement in the criminal justice system and/or other issues and barriers related to living in poverty. From an outcomes perspective the project will provide immediate employment skills for women and female youth with a long term goal of creating sustainable employment for those women. Partnerships with the Nova Scotia Department of Community Services Employment Support Program and Service Canada's Employment Program will provide wage subsidy and job creation monies to support this initiative. Our program is open to all women.
The project goals and objectives include but are not limited to the following:
- To train women and female youth to work in the culinary arts and food safety sector. The participants, who currently face barriers to employment (poverty, homelessness, addiction) are provided a second chance to train in the field of culinary arts and food safety.
- To prepare women for jobs in the food service industry in a non-judgmental environment in a program developed to provide and promote life skills, job readiness and hands on training.
- To increase confidence and strengthen the ability to obtain long term employment or return to school to support educational goals in culinary arts.
- To provide certificates in WHMIS, OHC, First Aid and Food Handling Safety.
- To provide skills in hygiene, food prep, food tastes, food smells, food storage, costing, management, service, food delivery, customer relations, advertising, cooking, budgeting.
Executive Director position
Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia is a not-for-profit society that works with women and female youth who are in conflict with the law, or at risk of becoming in conflict with the law. It is a member of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies. The Society has operated on Mainland Nova Scotia since 1982. The Society operates numerous programs for women and female youth, provides one-on-one support and release assistance, provides services to women in the Burnside and Nova correctional institutions and manages volunteer-provided services. The Society also operates Holly House, a second-stage housing initiative in Dartmouth, and Our Thyme Cafe, a social enterprise cafe and catering initiative, also in Dartmouth. The main offices of the Society are currently on Gottingen Street in Halifax.
The Society is seeking an Executive Director to set and achieve the strategic direction of the organization in collaboration with all stakeholders. Reporting to the volunteer Board of Directors, you will be responsible to direct the Society's operations, employees and volunteers, so that it can better provide services to clients and employee/clients and provide a fulfilling volunteer experience to volunteers.
A strong candidate will have a combination of skills including but not limited to managerial experience (with an emphasis on human resources), financial management (budgeting, fund-raising), social work, and strategic planning. Salary will be based on skills, education and experience.
Experience in the not-for-profit sector, a demonstrated commitment to women's issues and women's rights, and an awareness of issues of poverty, mental health and addictions are beneficial.
Please submit your expression of interest to bdarby@gillisassociates.ca or the Elizabeth Fry Society Mainland Nova Scotia c/o Suite 310-1550 Bedford Highway, Bedford, NS B4A 1E6, no later than August 15, 2010. The Society is an Employment Equity/ Affirmative Action employer and encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal peoples, persons with a disability, racialized persons, and women
Our Thyme Cafe & Catering Employment Training
If you have questions please contact Mary Young - Manager by telephone at 406-7467 or 440-8686, or e-mail myoung@ourthymecafe.biz.
