District School (Assistant) Nutrition Director

District School Nutrition (Assistant)Director

Location: LISA Academy District Office (Central Arkansas)
Reports to:Senior Director of Operations
Position Type: Full-time 12-month position

Position Summary

This employee is responsible for menu planning bid development nutritional analysis of meals quality assurance of food items monitoring of school cafeteria operations and all reporting and documentation requirements of the school nutrition program.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in foods and nutrition institutional food management or other comparable major preferred. High School Diploma required.
• Minimum of three (3) years school based food and nutrition services or related experience required.
• Must meet ADE certification and professional development requirements for persons managing school nutrition programs. Specialized education and training in Food Service production and management are preferred including ServSafe Safety and/or Sanitation Certified.
• Experience in food procurement and food service automation systems preferred.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Management of the day-to-day operations of school foodservice in the district. Establishes follows and ensures adherence to school district state and federal regulations and requirements as well as those required for sanitation serving practices food production participation and nutritional guidelines.
• Reviews all areas to maintain control of costs incurred by the district.
• Maintains all documents files and records for the purpose of providing up-to-date reference of the nutrition program.
• Creates and submits all required reporting regarding food service to local state and federal agencies after review by the Superintendent.

USDA School Nutrition Program

• Ensures administration of federal meal programs in accordance with all state and federal rules and regulations. This includes all phases of the operation and documentation of the program.
• Reviewing served meals to ensure meeting USDA recommended nutritional requirements.
• Review all food service areas including menus campus meal-related procurement sanitation practices meal services recordkeeping including production records required and desired marketing and quality of student and staff experience.

Caterer

• Writing meal bid specifications preparing bid invitations and assisting in evaluating bid results.

• Comparing invoices with production records of meals served.
• Monitoring food usage to assure adequate supply and minimum waste.

Campus Nutrition Staff

• Monitor and evaluate all campus nutrition staff.
• Provides on-the-job training for all employees in use of equipment sanitation storage procedures food handling and documentation of meals provided.
• Ensures campus nutrition staff obtain required 10 hours of PD annually with a combination of district-provided and outside resources.
• Conducting periodic reviews/visits to school cafeterias to evaluate the effectiveness of the food and nutrition services operations.
• Reviews campus production records regularly comparing records to caterer invoices and video surveillance if necessary.
• Assists principals in planning work schedules
• Assists administration in obtaining substitute nutrition staff as needed. May substitute for nutrition staff if available.
• Reviews campus collection efforts and payment processes regularly.
• Provides training and support for automated food and nutrition services system.
• Assists in maintaining inventories of food service related supplies and materials for the purpose of ensuring items availability.

Other

• Participates in staff development and related workshops as required
• Functions as a team player in supporting the schools and their many functions
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Required Experience:

Director