Role description:

This role involves managing the daily operations of The Museum Café and delivering outstanding guest experiences. It is a 100% hands-on position, ‘doing the do’ sometimes by yourself, but also overseeing a small casual/part-time team responsible for opening, closing, and front-of-house activities, including food presentation, order taking, food and beverage service, coffee making, food rotation, and waste management. Additionally, the café supervisor handles café cleaning, inventory replenishment, restocking, and urgently resolving repairs and maintenance issues.

To be considered for this position, you will:

• Have experience in leading a team in a fast paced cafe and being a jack of all trades: barista (must be able make a great coffee), order taker, server, bussy, cleaner, quality controller, food preparer etc
• Be super passionate about customer care and service – with unwavering patience and a cool head during very busy times
• Be capable of working collaboratively with the kitchen team to showcase the highest quality of food and beverage offer
• Have heaps on energy, amazing attention to detail, impeccable personal standards and be a great communicator
• Be a born ‘people person’ (You just LOVE engaging with babies, toddlers, adults, grandparents, carers and more).

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week, almost every day of the year. Please only apply for a Museum or Cafe role if you’re available to work during weekends and school holiday periods.

Role description:

The role is responsible for ensuring that every single visitor has a truly exceptional and memorable experience at MoPA. This is demonstrated through your endless energy and enthusiasm for children, families and play. You love to dance, paint, build, tell stories as well as hosting parties and excursions whilst maintaining an eye for detail on the cleanliness of the museum.

Give me more:

• You’ll be rostered for 2-4 shifts per week of between 3 and 8 hours each

• Most shifts occur on weekends, however some shifts will also occur on weekdays

• Most shifts will be during the Museum’s typical operating hours (approx. 8.30am til 5.30pm) however some shifts will end later (9.30pm, at the latest) when events/functions occur in the Museum.

• You’ll be on your feet all day – because there’s always something that can be cleaned. But rest assured, all day you’ll also be laughing, dancing and having loads of fun with our team and our guests!

• You’ll be running a host of scheduled activities such as dance parties, craft, games and classes

• Fastidious and constant cleaning and tidying of all areas, exhibits and facilities

To be considered for this position, you will:

• Ideally have worked with children in an educational capacity – many of our team are future, current or past formal educators.
• Be comfortable hosting parties, excursions, dance parties, painting sessions, craft building with individuals and groups
• Be confident in enforcing safety guidelines for our guests (outside food policy and play safe areas)
• Love cleaning, tidying, restocking, wiping, cleaning, emptying bins, dusting, and did I mention cleaning!
• Be a naturally fun, bubbly, positive personality and just LOVE engaging with babies, toddlers, adults, grandparents, carers and more).

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week, almost every day of the year. Please only apply for a Museum or Cafe role if you’re available to work during weekends and school holiday periods.

Role description:

This role supports the head chef in preparing the very best food offer to MoPA standards. From cutting, chopping, assembling and presenting our cafe and catering range, you will take pride in every piece you put on display.

To be considered for this position, you must

• Have worked in a busy cafe style kitchen with exceptionally high standards and revel in a fast paced environment
• Have the ability to take direction but also work autonomously to cook, prepare, assemble the range of  snacks, sandwiches, food platters, etc
• Be comfortable engaging with cafe team members who you co-share the cafe/kitchen space with

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week. Please only apply for a Chef role if you’re available during weekends and school holiday periods.

Our Nunawading site runs a single commercial kitchen that feeds two very different customers. On one side is the MoPA program — café items for visiting families, plus party platters and catering for the children’s parties and events that fill our weekends. On the other is The Museum Café, a standalone café outside of the museum with its own customers, its own identity and its own food offering. Both come out of the one kitchen. You run that kitchen.

This is a rare role because it’s really two briefs held together by one person:

Deliver the MoPA program. The museum trades every day of the year, and on weekends becomes a busy function venue. You’ll prepare fresh café items, party platters, snack packs and catering orders — all to MoPA standards, with Fridays as your big prep day for the weekend rush.

Own and grow The Museum Café. The café sits outside the MoPA brand guidelines, which means real creative freedom. We want you working hand-in-hand with our creative team to reimagine its menu and offering and build it into something we’re genuinely proud of — presentation, seasonal changes, the feel of the whole thing.

Same kitchen, same team, two standards of excellence to hit at once. This is a hands-on, morning-based role (no late nights) but you’ll need to be available across weekends and school holidays which are our peak times. You lead from the front and you’re happiest on the tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership of The Museum Café — developing the menu and offering alongside our creative team to lift it into something distinctive
• Manage daily food operations across both the café and museum, ensuring cleanliness, safety and efficiency
• Prepare and present fresh café food, plus party platters, snack packs and catering items to a consistently high standard
• Accurately execute catering orders for multiple concurrent functions, including dietary and special requirements
• Lead Friday prep and manage stock ordering to stay ahead of busy weekends
• Order, receive and manage stock while minimising waste
• Lead and train a small team of kitchen hands, maintaining high standards consistently
• Work closely with the café, creative and guest services teams to support parties, functions and promotions

To be considered for this position, you must:

• Have proven experience as a Head Chef, Chef or Kitchen Lead in a busy café, catering or hospitality environment
• Bring real ideas to menu development and presentation — you want to build something, not just maintain it
• Be confident managing stock, ordering and food safety compliance
• Enjoy leading a small team, giving guidance and holding high standards
• Be comfortable working weekends and school holidays (our busiest times)
• Be a chef who genuinely thrives in a family environment

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week. Please only apply for a Cafe role if you’re available to work 2-4 shifts per week during weekends and school holiday periods.

MoPA is already famous for its delicious coffee – but you will take this fame to new levels. You’re a passionate, reliable, service-orientated barista with a passion for the entire cafe offering, not just the coffee.

Role description:

This role supports the cafe supervisor in delivering the very best guest experience. From opening and closing tasks, ensuring the next day team walk into a perfectly ready cafe, to food and beverage order taking and service, coffee making, bussing cafe tables, restocking and most importantly keeping the cafe impeccably clean and tidy.

To be considered for this position, you will:

• • Have worked in a busy cafe with exceptionally high standards and revel in a fast paced service environment
  • Have the ability to make an amazing coffee, take orders with genuine enthusiasm and have pride in how you present food to your guests
  • Be comfortable engaging with children and parents alike with a genuine kind and caring nature
  • Love cleaning, tidying, restocking, wiping, vacuuming, cleaning, emptying bins, clearing tables and did I mention cleaning!
  • Be naturally fun, bubbly, positive personality – a breath of fresh air in everything you do.

Please note: MoPA is open 7-days a week, almost every day of the year. Please only apply for a Museum or Cafe role if you’re available to work during weekends and school holiday periods.

Role description:

Our delightful crew of Cafe Team Members are responsible for ensuring that our cafe is the cleanest, yummiest haven for nutrients that our guests could ever ask for. Each day they’re the first team members in – prepping the for the day ahead. They then busily tend to guests orders for our delicious food and coffee menu, maintaining an impeccable environment within the serving area but also in the cafe eating areas, and scrub the place impeccably clean at the end of the day to ensure tomorrows team get a head start into another busy day.

You will be comfortable engaging with children and parents alike, you will demonstrate a genuinely kind and caring nature by helping anyone and everyone with whatever their needs may be, and you will be a ‘service machine’, endlessly re-strocking, tidying, wiping, vacuuming, emptying bins and doing all it takes to maintain the exceptionally high standard of cleanliness and hygiene that MoPA are famous for.

Give me more:

• You’ll be rostered for 2-4 shifts per week of between 3 and 8 hours each

• Most shifts occur on weekends, however some shifts will also occur on weekdays

• Most shifts will be during the Museum’s typical operating hours (approx. 8.30am til 5.30pm) however some shifts will end later (9.30pm, at the latest) when events/functions occur in the Museum

• You’ll be on your feet all day

• Fastidious and constant cleaning and tidying of all areas

To be considered for this position, you will:

• Have worked in a busy cafe with exceptionally high standards already, and you revel in this environment.

• Be available to work at least 3 full day shifts per week.

• Be a born ‘people person’ (You just LOVE engaging with babies, toddlers, adults, grandparents, carers and more).

• Be a naturally fun, bubbly, positive personality – a breath of fresh air in everything you do.