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Job Description
Position Title: Assistant Cook Head Start
Employee Type: FullTime Regular or PartTime Regular
Supervisor Title: Manager Nutrition or Cook Head Start
Division: United States Programs
Summary
The Assistant Cook will assist in ordering preparing serving and documenting meals and snacks for children served in the Head Start and/or Early Head Start program. This position must follow menus and all phases of kitchen operations including inventory control.
Assistant Cooks contribute to smooth flow of operations in the assigned kitchen and to the functioning of the kitchen in adherence to health and food safety codes and the strict cleanliness of the kitchen and food service and storage areas. The Assistant Cook may prepare foods for infants and toddlers and/or preschool children following the USDA/CACFP and Head Start standards. This position may involve reassignment to various kitchens/centers as deemed necessary for program operations.
As a front line representative of Save the Children Assistant Cooks are required to ensure the safety and security of children and families that they come into contact with and represent the agency values of Accountability Ambition Collaboration Creativity and Integrity.
As a Save the Children employee who will come into contact with children on a routine basis the position is expected to prevent child abuse in every situation by striving through mental awareness good practice and training to minimize risk to children. The position must take positive steps to protect children who may be a subject of concern and report respond to any instance of child abuse and promote training and awareness around all childsafeguarding obligations.
What Youll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
- Prepares food to meet the needs of children with special needs restricted diets medical issues or disabilities; ensures that specifications are met in accordance to Save the Children policies MS State Regulations OHS and CACFP/USDA
- Prepares and serves food and assists in any food related activities as directed and menus as approved by registered dietician/nutritionist.
- Prepares and serves all meals as planned paying attention to food presentation and freshness
- Assists Head Cook with overseeing full kitchen operations and may supervise volunteer assistants (depending on size of workload)
- Assists with maintenance of inventory for food service operations
- Assists with the processing and storage of food and food related items as they are delivered
- Assists with ensuring that standardized recipes are followed and appropriate quantities of food and serving proportions are prepared and served in accordance with the CACFP meal requirements
- Assists with ensuring production books for CACFP and documents are completed accurately on a daily basis
- Attends child nutrition meetings and required program meetings.
- Receives inspects and verifies delivery of food food related items and all kitchen/food inventory in absence of Head cook.
- Implements a cost effective food service program according to federal state and local regulations that is a financially successful operation by helping to control food and labor costs
- Performs any other relevant duties as assigned by manager
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 2 years experience working in a food service environment
- A high school diploma or G.E.D
- Relevant knowledge of basic food preparation and kitchen operations including food safety requirements is a plus
- General bookkeeping skills are a plus
- Strong team work and be customer service oriented
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing
- Organizational skills selfmanagement of time and overall cleanliness
- Ability to build effective relationships within workgroup
- Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions
- Ability to perform medium to heavy physical work exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally up to 20 pounds frequently and up to 510 pounds constantly performing such activities as sitting crawling stooping kneeling crouching reaching standing walking pushing pulling lifting grasping. This also includes some duties that require repetitive action and motion skills keyboarding and computer use.
- Clear criminal records check (including child abuse registry check if required by state regulations) and pass all state and local health requirements required post job offer and prior to employment. To drive agency vehicles (if applicable) must have a valid drivers license and be insurable by the Save the Children Head Start insurance carrier and have a Motor Vehicle Record acceptable to Save the Children Head Start. Current and former Head Start/Early Head Start parents will receive preference for employment vacancies for which they are qualified.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience having met Health Department Regulations USDA and Head Start Standards is preferred
- Previous experience working with CACFP is preferred
- Certification in ServSafe is preferred
Whats In It for You
- Aetna Medical and Dental insurance with a concierge service
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Holidays
What makes us special!
- Generous Retirement Savings with matching company contributions
- Pet Insurance Critical Illness Insurance Identity Protection Home Auto and additional Life insurances
- Leadership and Employee Development Training including:
- Our remarkable inhouse CORE Senior Management Development and Leadership Development Programs
- Language learning opportunities
- Continuous Improvement skill development programs
- Brown Bag information sharing sessions
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world we give children a healthy start in life the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children every day and in times of crisis transforming their lives and the future we share.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom Save the Children is in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition it is Save the Childrens policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions whether deliberate or inadvertent that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation. Any violations of this policy will be treated as a serious issue.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression ancestry sexual orientation national origin age handicap disability marital status or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Employment Type
Full-Time
