Café All-Rounder / Barista
Love great coffee, friendly faces and daytime café work? We’re looking for a warm, reliable and hands-on Café All-Rounder / Barista to join World Vision Australia’s Blackburn-based social enterprise café on a casual basis. This is a rewarding opportunity to bring your café skills to a welcoming community space where your workday contributes to something bigger.
You’ll help create a positive café experience for customers while supporting an organisation committed to empowering Australians to create meaningful change for the world’s most vulnerable children and adults.
About the role
This is a casual position with shifts across 2–3 weekdays and some Saturdays, typically finishing around 3pm after close and pack-down. Shifts are approx. 5–6 hours in duration. Flexibility is required to support additional shifts and changes to hours or days as needed. There may also be opportunities for occasional shifts at our Burwood East social enterprise café.
Based in Blackburn and close to public transport, you’ll be part of a small, supportive team and assist across both front-of-house and basic kitchen duties throughout the day.
What you’ll do
- Prepare and serve quality coffee and café beverages
- Deliver warm, attentive customer service, including table service
- Use the POS system to take orders and process payments
- Assist with food preparation, including sandwiches and simple kitchen tasks
- Support kitchen operations including dishwashing, cleaning and restocking
- Help with end-of-day closing, pack-down and maintaining a clean, organised café
About you
- Barista experience or strong coffee knowledge
- Confident in customer service and creating a welcoming environment
- Reliable, organised and comfortable in a fast-paced setting
- Willing to be hands-on across coffee making, service, food prep and cleaning
- Basic food safety or food handling experience
- Positive attitude and enjoys working as part of a team
Working for World Vision means you are making the world better
It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you’re about to do something meaningful. It means working alongside a global community of staff and supporters who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward.
The Selection Process
For your information, interviews will start immediately and the role may be filled before the closing date.
We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We are committed to all children and adults being safe, well and empowered through our programs, activities, management and governance. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks, including a criminal record check.
Who we are
World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work.
Apply now
If you’re a friendly café all-rounder who loves great service, good coffee and being part of a purpose-led organisation, we’d love to hear from you.
World Vision Australia is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation that is dedicated to transforming the lives of children and communities by tackling the causes of poverty. We are dedicated to increasing opportunities for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in line with our Reconciliation Action Plan
