About the Role

Community Kitchen volunteers help make and serve a nutritious hot lunch for people seeking asylum every day at the ASRC Footscray Centre. Working as part of a team, Kitchen Volunteers also help to clean up and wash the dishes.

Program: Community Food

The Community Food Program ensures that people seeking asylum have equitable access to culturally appropriate, nutritious food and basic groceries in a welcoming and social environment.

Our Foodbank enables people seeking asylum to choose food and other essentials for themselves and their families. The Foodbank shop reflects a retail environment that reduces barriers to accessing food with volunteers providing customer service and stock management. Our Community Kitchen volunteers prepare a delicious lunch each weekday for our members using recipes gifted by people with lived experience in our community.

Key Responsibilities

Under the guidance of Community Food Program Staff:

• In collaboration with other kitchen volunteers, following recipes to cook meals for large groups
• Chopping, peeling, and washing vegetables
• Washing up, tidying, and cleaning the community kitchen
• Adherence to OH&S and safe food handling & storing at all times
• Other duties as required

What we’re looking for

• Cooking expereince essential, ideally bulk cooking expereince catering for large groups of 100+ people
• Ability to work in a team or independently to plan menus with available produce
• Capability to stand for extended periods during shifts
• Dedication to upholding ASRC OH&S and confidentiality principles at all times
• Willingness to work in a diverse multicultural team & environment

About Us

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) is the largest aid, employment, health and advocacy organisation for people seeking asylum in Australia. The ASRC provides a range of direct services as well as participating in law reform, campaigning and lobbying.

The human rights of people seeking asylum and refugees are at the foundation of all we do and the workforce makes it happen, doing the work to bring the vision and purpose to life.

Our organisational values are: Welcoming, Authentic, Courageous, Collaborative

For more information email [email protected]