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This job expired on January 19, 2015

Director of catering operations forageSF

  • Date Posted November 20, 2014
  • Location San Francisco, CA
  • Category Culinary
  • Job Type Part-Time
Job Description This position is for an Event and Operations Director for forageSF. We’re looking for someone with extensive experience in catering, event management, and event sales, to join us.

The perfect person for this job would have experience managing eclectic events, negotiating with clients, hiring/managing employees, managing budgets, and have unique ideas of how to increase the sales of our already well established brand.

forageSF runs myriad events, both for the public and private clients. From The Wild Kitchen; 100-person dinner, 8-course meals, featuring wild foraged ingredients around communal tables; to private dinners and cooking classes for groups from 10-200 guests.

Your job will be to promote, sell, organize, and execute these events. You'll have support from an existing staff in Kitchen and finance/operations positions. We have an email list of over 35,000, and a combined social media presence of over 50,000, so there is ample opportunity for the person who knows how to sell. Check out our website and flickr for examples of events we've done.

Although there will be a lot of freedom in this position, it’s important that the events follow our established style.
This is a great opportunity for someone who has worked in events for years and is looking for a position where they truly manage themselves and own the events they organize. This job calls for a great problem solver, someone who’s fanatically organized, entrepreneurial, great with people, self-motivated, and happy working independently.

Responsibilities include/but not limited to:
-Increasing sales of private events-Business development / identifying untapped markets -Booking/managing staff
-Negotiating with clients for private events-Acting as the liaison with vendors
-Managing FOH day of events-hiring/managing necessary employees  
-Managing budgets and logistics for both private and public events
-Anything else that needs to be done to create amazing events

This is a part time, hourly job with the possibility of expansion into full time salaried position. Pay TBD.

If you’re interested in applying, please click below to tell us a bit more about yourself.

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