Catering & Events Coordinator, Full-Time - Land's End Resort ($20/hr+ DOE & Benefits - Homer, AK)

About the Role

This position supports the Land’s End Resort, a 117-room hotel in Homer, AK, by coordinating catering activities and events with daily client and customer contact.

Responsibilities

• Ensure dining activities and services are provided in a high quality, consistent, and cost-effective manner.
• Plan or participate in planning menus, preparing and apportioning foods, and utilizing food surpluses and leftovers.
• Communicate with and lead events staff within the organization.
• Coordinate all aspects of catering activities and events.
• Work closely with clients to understand their needs and preferences.
• Measure the performance of assigned events and activities.
• Oversee event setup, execution, and breakdown.
• Provide exceptional guest service throughout the event.
• Prepare and serve food and refreshments at social affairs.
• Purchase and/or requisition kitchen supplies, catering wares, and equipment.
• Establish and implement an organized system of supervision and general operating procedures.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of event management software and interpret Event Forms and Pull Sheets.
• Direct and coordinate the promotion of new services.
• Track financial data, reports, forecasts, and expenditures to achieve optimum efficiency, economy of operations, and maximize profits.
• Support an active safety program.
• Facilitate the employment of NANA shareholders.
• Continuously seek to improve the quality of assigned events activities.
• Define and ensure understanding of responsibilities, authorities, and accountability for all assigned employees.
• Demonstrate professional skills in communication, change management, employee development, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• Perform other duties pertinent to the department or unit’s success.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
• Minimum of three (3) years of catering & events coordinating experience.
• Alaska Food Workers Card or ServSafe Certification.
• Demonstrated knowledge of event management software.
• Experience with sales reports and POS (Point of Sale) transactions.
• Ability to speak, understand, read, and write English.
• Valid Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record for the past three (3) years to be eligible under the NMS vehicle insurance policy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hotel/hospitality catering & events planning experience.
• Full beverage and bar experience.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

This role operates in a commercial kitchen within a hotel setting, primarily indoors in an environmentally controlled space with moderate to loud noise levels.

• Frequently required to sit, stand, walk, use hands/fingers to handle or feel, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs.
• Regularly required to talk, hear, see, taste, and smell.
• No travel required.

Competencies

• Safety guides our behavior.
• Honesty and integrity govern our activities.
• Commitments made will be fulfilled.
• All individuals are treated with dignity and respect.
• The environment will be protected and sustained.