Job Description

• Location: Highfield Campus
  Salary: £25,742 to £28,759 per annum
  Full Time Permanent
  Closing Date: Tuesday 25 June 2024
  Interview Date: To be confirmed
  Reference: 2752124TD

  The Campus Kitchen is the University of Southampton’s in house catering service. We facilitate a multitude of services across the University to include the provision of food in catered halls, retail catering outlets across all campuses, a delivered catering service and catering for all hospitality requirements across our campuses. Our aim is to deliver a five-star food service, catering for a wide range of needs and requirements and enhancing the experience for staff, students and visitors on campus.

  Find out more about the services we offer here.

  The role

  Catering Services are looking for a highly motivated and proactive individual with administrative experience within a hospitality or catering environment. The Catering Administrator will ensure the provision of effective and efficient administrative support to the catering department, provide detailed advice and guidance on catering provisions for internal and external customers and create and update content for all catering communications.

  The working hours are on a full-time basis, predominantly Monday to Friday. You will need to have some flexibility in terms of working hours in accordance with business needs. The role is predominantly based on Highfield Campus but you may occasionally be required to travel between campuses.

  Additional working benefits include time off over the Easter and Christmas period due to University Closure days, bank holidays and a 36 hour working week.

  About you

  You will be a highly motivated and proactive individual, capable of multi-tasking and have exceptional attention to detail. Experience in high end restaurant service or a fine dining setting is essential to the role.

  What we can offer you

  As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. We welcome applications from candidates who are committed to helping us create an inclusive work environment. We encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, people who identify as LGBTQ+; and people with disabilities. We would particularly welcome applications from candidates from working class, first generation Higher Education, the Global South and other underrepresented groups.

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