SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Plan and prepare nutritionally balanced, attractive family style meals and snacks for children and staff
- Follow cycle menus, considering state and federal nutritional requirements for children including food preferences/allergies
- Keep accurate inventory of food and supplies
- Responsible for ordering food and supplies as needed
- Maintain positive supportive relationships with center staff, children, parents, and regulatory officials
- Prepare and distribute breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks
- Maintain CACFP forms and records (if applicable)
- Keep kitchen and related work areas safe and clean
- Post and follow approved menus, making and posting approved nutritionally sound substitutions as required
- Prepare and serve food in amounts based on CACFP serving requirements. Serves food in appropriate containers at appropriate temperatures and amounts to children and staff daily
- Maintain kitchen in safe and sanitary condition
- Supports family style food service and self-serve snacks
REASONING ABILITY:
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of situations
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written and oral
- Ability to respond quickly and appropriately to an emergency or a crisis
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:
- Self-Awareness: Ability to fully understand the impact emotions have on performance, assessment of strengths and weaknesses, relationships, and others. Demonstrates self-confidence, initiative, motivation, optimism and flexibility.
- Self-Management: Ability to manage behaviors, thoughts, and emotions in a conscious and productive way. Models the ability to implement self-control in assessing frustrations and failures and models resilience and courage. Understands personal responsibility in different aspects of life and work, and what is needed to fulfill that responsibility.
- Social Awareness: Ability to understand and learn about the diverse perspectives of others. Includes listening, honoring other views, assessing impact of words, and the desire to serve others in effort to meet their needs appropriately and professionally.
- Relationship Skills: Ability to build relationships which model caring, concern and healthy conflict. Demonstrates positive methods of collaboration and conflict resolution. Ability to positively lead and inspire others and integrate such models personally. Demonstrates ability to support positive work culture, which encourages results from others.
- Responsible Decision Making: Ability to make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on ethical standards, safety concerns, and social norms; the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions; and a consideration of the well-being of oneself and others.
PERSONAL SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS:
- High energy level
- Resourceful and well organized
- Strong commitment for doing what is right for young children
PHYSICAL CONDITIONS:
- Requires daily standing, sitting, bending and stooping (setting will be limited to about 5% of your day)
- Requires normal range of hearing and vision
- Requires the ability to lift 40 pounds
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Ability to work overtime and odd schedules (flexibility is important)
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS:
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
- No or very limited exposure to physical risk
This position description does not list all the duties of the job. Incumbents may be asked to perform other functions and duties. Incumbent will be evaluated in part based upon performance of the responsibilities in this job description. Executive Management has the right to revise this job description at any time. The job description is not a contract for employment. Incumbent or employer may terminate the employment relationship at any time for any reason.
