Cook II in San Francisco, California at Project Open Hand

POH COMPETENCIES:

• A Team player: Demonstrates cooperative spirit, respects professional boundaries and is successful at sharing responsibilities with others

• Self-Led: Knows and completes responsibilities in assigned timelines, asks for clarifications when needed

• Sensitive to the circumstances and needs of the critically ill and seniors, as well as people with mental health and substance abuse issues

• Customer oriented: Works well with all customers (internal staff and external contacts), promotes a positive image of the agency and works diligently to resolve customer issues

• Poised: able to maintain a calm, positive and constructive attitude during interactions with diverse populations, sometimes in challenging situations

• Ethical: Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality

• Decisive: Thoughtful when considering options, seeks input from others, makes difficult decisions when necessary

• Knowledgeable: Understands facets of job, keeps job knowledge current

• Well organized: Information organized and accessible, maintains efficient work space, manages time well

• Agile: Able to move effectively between big-picture thinking and hands-on logistics

• Takes Initiative: Takes action, seeks new opportunities, strives to see projects to completion

• Problem Solver: Strong analytical skills and able to creatively address and solve problems

• Motivated: Looks for opportunities to increase knowledge, works to increase responsibility, strives to achieve personal goals

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Physical demands: While performing duties of job, incumbent is occasionally required to stand for long periods of time and move; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must bend, stoop and lift and/or move up to 50 pounds unassisted on a regular basis. Employee must be able to move fully loaded carts from floor to floor for storage on a regular basis. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Work environment: The noise level in the work environment will consistently vary from moderate to loud. The work environment will be ever changing with volunteers and staff members all sharing limited space and working together in the Kitchen. The work environment will consistently have wet floors, temperature extremes, moving objects and loud noises