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For all jobs and volunteer roles you’ll get a meal when you’re working with us. Sitting and eating together isn’t just important for our community food projects but for our team too. 

Events & Office Intern

Download the application pack and apply via Inclusion Scotland.

Payment:al Living Wage rate of £12.00 per hour  

Contract: 420 hours: Made up of: 1, 2 or 3 days per week until the hours are complete.  

Location:  Edinburgh- Part-time/occasional home working is possible once the candidate has been in post for a few weeks.  

Internship overview:
This person will gain experience in all aspects of event planning and the administrative and logistical side of running a social enterprise. They will help ensure the smooth running of our catering and community events and will learn good skills in event planning, timeline setting, time management and customer services. We’re a small team and so this person will work alongside all of our different team members to get a broad understanding of different events and work.  

Main duties and tasks 

  • Taking bookings for catering orders and creating job sheets for other staff to follow for each job.
  • Back-end event planning such as booking spaces, creating timelines,  sorting and packing equipment.
  • Booking the front of House staff for events and helping coordinate them on-site.
  • Being part of leading the Front of House team by laying tables, serving people, greeting guests, serving drinks etc.  
  • Helping gather feedback (through surveys and conversations) from the local community and clients.
  • Creating content from events i.e. blog posts and photos and videos for social media.  
  • Keeping the calendar, event database and our images from events sorted and up to date.
  • Helping with the general smooth running of the organisation.  

Person Specification  

Essential skills and experience: 

  • Personable & good at dealing with people
  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to problem solve and deal with issues
  • Working knowledge of Google
  • Have a clear need for the opportunity, and be able to show how it will help you overcome barriers to achieving your career goals. (this is assessed in the sections motivation for applying, skills development, and current employment status.) 
  • Must define as Deaf or disabled which includes physical, sensory and mental impairments, neurodivergent, learning disabilities, learning difficulties such as dyslexia or long term health conditions. (You do not need to give details in the supporting statement unless you wish to. If you do, this will not be removed from the application before the shortlisting panel sees it.) 

 Desirable skills and experience 

  • Experience of organising events
  • Experience of creating social media content

Download the application pack and apply via Inclusion Scotland.

Additional Information

If you would like to discuss this opportunity with the employer prior to submitting your application, please contact: Kirsty Haigh at kirsty.haigh@edinburghfoodsocial.org 

Completed applications to be forwarded by 10am on Monday 26th February to Ellis Moffat by email: interns@inclusionscotland.org 

Board Members

We are recruiting a Child Protection Officer and general board members. We would love to hear from you if you’d like to play an instrumental part in our organisation. Please submit an application using the form below.

Edinburgh Food Social – Board Member Recruitment Form

Event & Catering Chefs

We have more and more catering jobs and community food events coming up this summer and we need Chefs to help us pull them all off.

We are looking for people who can work the occasional day here and there and don’t mind being added to a list of people when we ask when we need extra help for a job. 

We’ve got breakfasts, weddings, canape parties and dinners at community festivals…. 

As much as we want to spend as much money on those most in need as we can we also appreciate that Chefs deserve to be paid for their work too. So, if you’re not in a position to volunteer but still have the capacity to help out with events then please get in touch and we can pay you as a freelance Chef.

Our freelance Chef rate will be from £12.20p/h depending on experience. 

If you’re interested then please email hello@edinburghfoodsocial.org and provide:
– A copy of your hygiene qualifications  

– A reference (or two if you are looking for freelance work) 

– A brief cover letter with information on your cooking experience (or a CV if you’d prefer) 

– Info on any restrictions you have on days/times you could help etc. 

Waitstaff

We are also looking for people to staff front of house at our events.

If you like working with people and have the capacity to volunteer or work as a freelance member of waitstaff for us then you can join our pool of people we contact when we have events coming up. Freelance wait staff are paid £11p/h. 

We are always trying to make people smile with great food and drinks. Help us improve people’s special days by providing the best front of house experience.

We’re particularly looking for people with their own transport however, this is not essential.

If you’re interested then please get in touch with catering@edinburghfoodsocial.org and:
– Let us know any and all relevant experience 

– Clarify if you’re looking to volunteer or be freelance 

– Info on any restrictions you have on days/times you could help etc. 

Volunteers

Volunteer Chefs

We are always looking for an extra pair of qualified hands to help us cook for events and deliver our catering.

If you were able to volunteer your time to help us with these events then that would be amazing. Any and all surplus from paid events goes into our community food provision and projects we teach in educationally and nutritionally deprived areas. 

To volunteer as a chef please get in touch with catering@edinburghfoodsocial.org.

Community Food Support

We always welcome volunteers to help at our community meals, social eating events, and educational collaborations.

If you have availability and would like to help, please get in touch with hello@edinburghfoodsocial.org and let us know your experience in this area.