Events Set-Up,Banquet Server, Bartender

Saint Joseph's College of Maine is hiring for the part-time position of Events Set-Up, Banquet Server, Bartender!

Are you a highly motivated creative person that loves to work with others? Do you have a keen attention to detail and provide spectacular customer service? If you are driven to succeed in a demanding yet rewarding environment, we would like to hear from you! We are looking for great servers and set up crew to join our events staff at Saint Joseph's College, the Stone Barn and Xavier Hall. Summer hours are focused heavily on weddings and ticketed events.

Positions are expected to start on June 1 for training. Part time positions available with flexible scheduling based on booked events. Days, nights and weekends required. On call position to work as needed to assist with the execution of events.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

Completes the set up and break down of events on campus by:

• Reading and understanding set up specifications for booked events

• Working well with the other team members to complete a set up

• Assist with internal and external event setups to include chairs, tables, supplies, light food prep and plating, staging, signs, trash removal etc.

• Reporting any damage or issue to the Agritourism Events Manager

• Transporting products from kitchen and storage location to event location

Server - ensures the highest level of Customer Satisfaction by:

• Interacting and filling customer requests

• Working well with the other team members to deliver the ultimate guest experience

• Listening to special requests and filling the request as needed

• Executing the event to the highest standard, acting quickly to fix issues that may arise

• Maintaining a professional presence in front of staff and guests at all times

• Ensuring that guest remain unimpaired and safe - reporting any impaired behavior or guests to the Event Supervisor

• Ensuring that tasks and requests are completed with the proper level of urgency

• Reporting any safety hazard, service issue or guest complaint to the Event Supervisor

• Serve-Safe certified or willing to obtain certification within 30 days of hire

Adheres to the highest level of quality, service and cleanliness by:

• Arriving to a shift on time and in uniform

• Ensuring all equipment is clean, in working condition and organized during an event and after an event

• Ensuring floors are kept clean and free of waste, food, and spills, clearing plates, wiping counters, and keeping food servers full

SCHEDULE

Positions are expected to start on June 1 for training. Part time positions available with flexible scheduling based on booked events. Days, nights and weekends required. On call position to work as needed to assist with the execution of events.

About Saint Joseph's College of Maine

Applicants must be willing to support the mission and core values of Saint Joseph's College of Maine.

Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy, Saint Joseph's College is Maine's only Catholic college. We offer to our 2000 on-campus and online students a unique mix of undergraduate, graduate, and non-degree programs with a strong liberal arts foundation. Our beautiful 474-acre Sebago Lake campus in Standish, Maine is located 30 minutes northwest of Portland, ME, and 2 hours North of Boston, MA. Fielding 21 intercollegiate varsity teams, the College also boasts a competitive Division III athletics program.

Additionally, the College provides certificates and undergraduate and advanced degrees for thousands more working adults who reside throughout the United States and in more than 20 other countries through an online learning program. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.

Saint Joseph's is nationally recognized for its successful integration of community service in its classroom learning and its sustainability performance. In 2015, the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College's focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions on campus and within local, regional, and global communities.

In 2022, the College earned STARS Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in recognition of its campus-wide sustainability achievements. This program is the most widely recognized in the world for reporting comprehensive information related to a college's sustainability accomplishments.

Saint Joseph's College of Maine embraces justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion as important cornerstones for academic excellence, student success, institutional and community resilience, and as vital expressions of our Catholic identity, Mercy Charism, and Core Values. We commit ourselves to nurturing highly competent and deeply compassionate leaders ready to serve in a vulnerable world.

Recognizing the dignity of all persons, we seek to address instances of injustice both within and outside our College community from a stance of informed advocacy. In this way we fulfill our core value of community, which calls on us to demonstrate a spirit of connectedness with one another through expressions of hospitality, courtesy, inclusivity, and collaboration. Saint Joseph's College is the community that grows community, preparing whole people to a whole world. Learn more here.

Review of applications will begin immediately. Please complete our online application by clicking on Apply Now. Include your resume and cover letter, and read and sign the Pre-Employment Statement. Offers are contingent upon successfully passing a background check.

Saint Joseph's College is an EEO employer and applications from members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. We consider all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race (including traits associated with race, including hair texture, Afro hairstyles, and protective hairstyles), color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, genetic information, military status, sex or gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disabilities, familial status, protected whistleblower activity, previous assertion of workers' compensation claim, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Specific questions may be emailed to: sjcemployment@sjcme.edu or call 207-893-7757.

Mission Statement

Saint Joseph's College of Maine, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and animated by the vision of Catherine McAuley, is a Catholic college in the liberal arts tradition distinguished by its welcoming community. We foster an on-going dialogue between faith and reason so as to prepare our learners to live meaningful lives that improve the world around them.

Vision Statement

In fulfillment of its mission, Saint Joseph's College of Maine will be a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative community that forms individuals who practice humility, justice, and compassion, as Jesus did, in solidarity with the marginalized.