Hospitality Team Member at Christian Retreat Centre: Housekeeping & Kitchen

King's Fold Retreat and Renewal Centre

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Job Title

Hospitality Team Member at Christian Retreat Centre: Housekeeping & Kitchen

Camp Name

King's Fold Retreat and Renewal Centre

Alberta

$35,306

About the Position

Hospitality Team Member: Housekeeping and Kitchen

King’s Fold Retreat and Renewal Centre, 30 minutes from Cochrane, an hour northwest of Calgary

Full-time, 40 hours a week. Three-month contract to begin, with the possibility of a permanent position. Accommodation on site if you need it.

“…that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” (Acts 3:19)

Some of our guests arrive weary, or walking through grief and needing somewhere quiet. Most come wanting time with God and a few days when someone else cooks. They pray, read in the library, sit by the fire, walk the 166 acres with the Ghost River running through it and the Rockies on the skyline, spend an afternoon in the art room, the chapel, the Stations of the Cross. A lot of them have been coming for years, because King’s Fold has become one of the places they reliably meet God.

Each weekday morning, before the working day starts, the staff team gathers for a short time of worship and prayer. Brother Lawrence, a lay brother who cooked for his community in seventeenth-century Paris, described his work and his prayer as one continuous conversation with God, carried on with his hands full. We want the same thing here. The conversation keeps going while you strip a bed, join the worship time in the chapel, or work through a sink of dishes.

THE WORK

Housekeeping is our most pressing need: cleaning guest rooms, bathrooms and shared spaces, laundry and linens,



fitting sheets and making beds, and preparing the lodge and rooms for arriving guests and groups.

The kitchen is the other core area. We serve two meals a day, brunch at 10am and supper at 4pm, for groups of between 5 and 30 people. You would work alongside our kitchen lead on cooking, preparation, service and clean-up, with room to take on more of it over time.

Most people in this role work across both areas. We are a small team, so there will be days when the thing that most needs doing is not the thing you expected.

HOURS

Generally 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. Some weekend work is needed, currently around one weekend in four, and time off is arranged around it.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You love Jesus, and you want people to encounter Him here. Sharing in the spiritual life of the Centre is part of the job. Our worship style is mainly contemplative and quiet, we come from a range of church backgrounds, and our unity here is in Jesus.

You are hardworking and comfortable on your feet all day. This work is physical: standing, walking, bending, lifting and kneeling for most of a shift.

You bring joy into a workplace. Nobody is cheerful every hour of every day. But how we treat one another is part of how we care for our guests.

You stay steady when the day changes. What is needed can shift quickly, and we want someone who asks what is needed now and gets on with it.





You want to help build a community. That looks like encouraging people, taking direction, asking good questions, and stepping in when another part of the team needs you. We want this to be a place where people are glad to see one another.

Attention to detail matters to you. Excellence rather than perfection, the kind that catches what a guest would have noticed.

You do not need previous housekeeping or kitchen experience. You do need the willingness to do this work well, to learn quickly, and to get better at it over time. Character and chemistry matter enormously to us.

THIS ROLE IS NOT FOR YOU IF

You are looking for a gentle, low-demand post to ease into. This is active work in a busy operation.

You would rather your faith and your working life stayed in separate compartments. Here they belong together.

Rural really is not for you. It is beautiful. It is also not close to very much.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

Accommodation on site where you are unable to commute, either an apartment or a room of your own. Meals with the team and guests. Time off in lieu for weekends worked, and paid vacation. Living and working on 166 acres straddling the Ghost River in the foothills of the Rockies. A place in a small Christian staff community built around prayer, hospitality and service. Practical work that matters.

INTERESTED?

We have more than one role to fill, and if two of you would like to come and work here together, you are both welcome to apply.

If you have read this and found yourself thinking actually, that sounds rather positive, read the full below for the detail on the role, the accommodation, what we value here, and how to apply.

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