Camp Cook

**Overnight Camp Cooks**
Cooks for the Adventure Earth Programs.
- traditional positions, persons with disabilities and Aboriginal persons. HRM encourages applicants to self-identify.

Over the past 30 years, the Adventure Earth Programs have engaged over 60,000 people in award
- winning, experiential programs at the cutting edge of environmental education, youth leadership, and outdoor recreation in Canada. As part of the Halifax Regional Municipality’s Parks and Recreation services, the Adventure Earth Centre works toward building a healthy and sustainable future for our children, our communities, and the Earth. With our core values of community, learning, safety, sustainability, magic, and excellence as a foundation, we provide opportunities to reconnect with the natural world, to pursue a healthy and active lifestyle, to develop personal and leadership skills, to give back to the community, and to connect with other like-minded people.

Two successful applicants will be responsible for planning, organizing, and cooking meals for participants at the Adventure Earth Programs’ overnight camps. In conjunction with the Camp Director, Menus are set according to traditional program needs and objectives, are youth-friendly, sustainable, and budget
- conscious. Camp Cooks will also oversee the management of inventory, food costs and purchasing.

The successful applicants will be required to work for one and a half months and live on site and are compensated as outlined below. On-site accommodations and meals are provided during program times only.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Planning menus, preparing and serving meals and snacks for groups of 35-65 participants and staff in a overnight camp setting
- Ensuring meals and snacks are nutritious, high quality, appealing, and appropriate for all participants being served, including individuals with specific dietary needs (i.e. diabetic, vegetarian, allergies, etc.)
- Maintaining inventory and food costs and purchasing.
- Overseeing and ensuring all food handling and health & safety standards are maintained at all times
- Completing all dishes and full kitchen clean up related to food preparation (cooks are not responsible for staff or campers’ personal dishes)
- Working as a team with a second cook to complete all tasks

Overnight Camp Cook 1

**Education and Experience**:

- Current Food Handlers Certificate
- Experience in large volume cooking
- 1 year + of Culinary education an asset

**Technical / Job Specific Knowledge and Abilities**:

- First Aid Certification an asset
- Experience in camp cooking/camp life an asset
- Experience in modifying menus to meet specific needs an asset
- Experience working with youth an asset
- Kitchen management experience an asset
- Access to a reliable vehicle an asset

**Conditions of Employment**
- Applicants must be willing to obtain WHMIS training
- Applicants must be willing to attend all orientations/training sessions (dates to be determined)
- Copies of certification must be submitted upon hiring
- Accommodations provided are in a single room in a shared cabin.
- Accommodations include indoor showers with hot water

**Supervision**:

- Camp Cooks are supervised and mentored by an experienced cook, who has been working at camp for over 10 years
- The Camp Director has had their Nova Scotia food safety certificate and has overseen the operations of the kitchen for several years.
- The Camp Director has done large group cooking and managed the cooking for many years and has developed many policies, procedures and processes that will help guide the cooks.

**Security Clearance Requirements**:

- Applicants must complete screening through the Child Abuse Registry and a Criminal

Record Check with Vulnerable Sector Check

Overnight Camp Cook 2

**COMPENTENCIES**:Analytical Thinking, Communications, Decision Making, Organization and Planning,
Risk Management, Teamwork and Cooperation, and Values and Ethics

**WORK STATUS**:Casual Seasonal. Beginning in May. plus training (virtual, e-learning and in person)
March -July

**HOURS OF WORK**:An average of 35 hours for 12 weeks including some weekend work for the months of May and June.

May 26-30

June 26-29 (Various hours)

July 3-6 Staff Training

July 7/8 OFF

July 9-14 Camp Week 1

July 15/16 OFF

July 17-22 Camp Week 2

July 23/24 OFF

July 25 - 30 Camp Week 3

**Contract: $5000 plus training**

**WORK LOCATION**:
Camp Mockingee, 160 Smeltzer Rd, Windsor, NS.

**CLOSING DATE**:Applications will be received until the positions are filled.
- community/adventure-earth-centres/overnight-camp

Overnight Camp Cook 3

**Salary**: Up to $5,000.00 per month

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Night shift
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Upper Vaughan, NS B0N 2T0: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Experienc