Chef-in- Residence

1 week ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Growing Chefs Full time
Growing Chefs is hiring

Do you want to support sustainable and just food practices? Build connections between kids and their food? Make local, sustainable food accessible? Engage communities through food?
If yes, then this might be the place for you


is a program that is changing the narrative about lunch by empowering students to learn, cook, serve, and share food with their peers and school community.

We aim to transform school food into meals that kids and youth want to eat - delicious, nourishing, and culturally-relevant food that brings students together to experience dignity and delight in their interaction with food.


We're looking for someone who loves to collaborate, has experience putting out large volumes of food, enjoys working with kids, is creative and imaginative in the kitchen, and has a passion for nourishing food and supporting food literacy.


Salary:
$42,952 Annually (based on 28 hours/week)

Benefits:

Health and dental plan (after 3 months employed); three weeks paid vacation (prorated to a 28 hour work week) + paid one-week summer shutdown per year + paid two-week winter shutdown per year; 12 paid personal wellness days per year (aka sick days); annual professional development funding; paid volunteer days.


Location:
Four days a week onsite in Vancouver LunchLAB schools (exact location TBD)

Anticipated Start Date:
Immediately, Feb 2024 (flexible for the next superstar LunchLAB chef)

Position Summary:

Your role will be mentor, educator, and chef.

Each week, you'll work with youth to teach them new skills, helping them understand the art and science of cooking and nutrition as well as the joy and celebration of connection to nourishing food.


Through day-to-day kitchen operations, meal planning, preparation, and service, the Chef-In-Residence together with our Chef Educators deliver engaging, non-stigmatizing, nourishing, and culturally-relevant meals that kids want to eat while providing embedded food literacy education and mentorship.


LunchLab Chef-In-Residences are responsible for the day-to-day kitchen operations including meal planning, preparation, and service at their assigned LunchLAB location(s).


Responsibilities include:

  • Supports the coexecutive directors to train chef teams._
  • Fosters positive work environment for staff and volunteers
  • Leads culinary and kitchen operations aspects of training process
  • Identifies knowledge and skills gaps on chef teams and develops training accordingly
  • Meal Prep and Service_
  • Manages meal service for designated number of students at assigned LunchLAB school
  • Develops engaging, nourishing, and culturallyrelevant menus for students
  • Collaborates to build supplier and vendor relationships that align with LunchLAB and Growing Chefs mission and policies
  • Manages supplier and vendor deliveries
  • Collaborates with admin team to manage budgets, feedback, processes, and systems
  • Collaborates with Chef Educator and admin teams to develop and implement weekly food literacy skills curriculum into meal prep for student chefs
  • Manage School Kitchen_
  • Collaborate to oversee chef team's function and flow as it relates to kitchen operations
  • Designs and oversees program and procedure manuals and documents kitchen procedures
  • Supervises daytoday maintenance and general upkeep of equipment and kitchenwares
  • Responsible for the safety and security of all those who participate in our programs (children, families, volunteers, staff) through policy implementation
  • Accountable for food procurement and meal service that meets program needs and aligns with Growing Chefs mission and policies
  • Ensures daytoday operations have proper food storage and transport that follows FoodSafe procedures
  • Kitchen Leadership_
  • Develops and manages a positive work environment for staff, volunteers, and student chefs
  • Collaborates to lead and mentor student chefs in the kitchen
  • Collaborates to manage usage of school garden produce (if applicable), and supplier orders and deliveries
  • Leads stewardship of relationships with teachers, students, volunteers, and general school community
  • Collaborates with senior coordinator and school administration/teachers to structure service days in accordance with staggered lunches, shared kitchen space, and involvement of student chef/clean teams
  • Delivery of Growing Chefs Programs_
  • Leads delivery of high quality programming in schools and in the community
  • Collaborates to deliver SOYL summer program
  • Collaborates to deliver Growing Chefs' Classroom Program
  • Recommends improvements to efficiencies, impacts, complexities, and identified gaps in the program delivery model to executive team
  • Develops, improves, and leads delivery of edible education lesson plans and learning activities for GC programs
  • Leads program delivery alignment with GC mission, values, and policies
  • Supports Program Coordinator to oversee volunteer activities on the ground
  • Leads and oversees establishmen

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