Cooking School Assistant

1 day ago

Vancouver, Canada Nourish Vancouver Full time

**If you are passionate about health, the environment, local farmers and delicious organic food, we are looking for you**

**About Nourish Vancouver**:
Nourish Vancouver is expanding its organic meals delivery and pick-up business to include a sit-down cafe and cooking school at its new location in Kitsilano/Point Grey. The beautiful new space will be a community gathering place for health and environmentally conscious families and foodies, who want to enjoy or learn how to make globally-inspired meals using local, organic, seasonal ingredients and ethically-sourced proteins. There will be both youth (8+) and adult class offerings that will require passionate, fun, and creative instructors. The Nourish Cafe and Cooking School is anticipated to open in May 2016.

**About the Cook/Cooking School Assistant role**:
From food prep to customer service, this role will be a jack-of-all-trades, playing a vital role in supporting the operations of the Nourish Cafe and Cooking School. This is an entry-level position, and though previous experience is not necessary, a passion for the sustainable food movement, an eagerness to learn, and ambition to be a team player are a must.

**Key responsibilities**:
This cooking/cooking assistant role reports to the Kitchen Manager. Responsibilities include, but not limited to the following, and will include tasks beyond the kitchen.
- Food preparation
- Dishwashing
- In-store customer service, including point-of-sale cash responsibilities
- Set-up and clean up of cooking classes
- Assist cooking instructor with clean up during classes, and ensure a premium cooking class experience is delivered to each student

**Qualities and skills we’re looking for**:

- Comfortable with food preparation (knife skills, safe food handling and basics of food storage) _Experience in a professional kitchen is preferred but not necessary_
- Hard working, with a ‘whatever it takes’ attitude - positive energy is a must
- Detail-oriented
- Responsible and able to work with limited supervision
- Comfortable working with numbers and creating reports
- Solutions-oriented and adaptable to change
- Available to work flexible hours, including early mornings and weekend
- Comfortable building relationships with customers, clients and suppliers
- Environmentally conscious and possess a high level of social responsibilityPassionate about the sustainable food/organic movement

If this potential opportunity excites you and the description matches your interests, please submit your cover letter that highlights your best and most relevant attributes and resume, to:

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