Job description

Garden and Kitchen Manager
Waldorf - Inspired In-Home School 
Preschool Program: 3 1/2 - 5 year olds

As we have an organic vegetarian menu at school, the Kitchen manager is responsible for preparing breakfast, am snack, lunch and pm snack 4-5 days a week. They also file menu claims with the USDA each day, keep up with the USDA standards, sanitation, grocery shopping within our budget (both weekly and bulk), and manage our Birthday celebrations and collaborate for our Fundraisers. 

Our Kitchen Manager is also a teacher's assistant throughout the day. Responsibilities for this position, include providing a healthy, nurturing, creative and respectful environment for each child. Also, following our daily rhythm, Implementing age-appropriate sensory/art activities during a short time in the afternoon, fostering communication with parents and other teachers through daily interactions, and documenting development of children - especially around their habits and development during meal times and preparing and teaching a garden or cooking activity once a week.

​As Garden Manager you get to design, plant, cultivate and harvest our vegetable garden and maintain our certified backyard habitat, all while educating our 3-5 year olds to do the same! ​Our garden is a foundation to our education and the Garden Manager gets to maintain and take ownership of the garden curriculum

Knowledge of and/or experience in a Waldorf early childhood environment is a huge plus.

M-Th (Fridays may be an option) 8-3pm + shopping = About 30 hrs a week

$11/ hr

Vegetarian, organic meals throughout the day provided (by you:)

Teachers also get tea, smoothies, supplements, herbs ect provided to help you stay healthy!

Staff Benefit package:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M6sbICn-Nrz7wrb2ef6o4_okCvcQSfoBt9HKIo0wWjU/edit

After a interview, qualified applicants will show the ability to foster a healthy meal and working environment through some personality profiling, questionnaires and a working interview.

To apply, please email complete application to Director/Manager Desiraé Ritz

Application includes resume + (if not in resume) names and phone numbers of three work and/or cooking related references, and answers to the following:

How has your experience prepared you for the responsibilities of this position?

What have been your leadership, hosting and cooking responsibilities in the past?

The primary philosophy we follow in this classroom is Waldorf. How would your approach to working with preschoolers combine with ours?

We encourage our whole staff to use their interests to enrich the overall experience we provide to both children and families. So far, parents and children appreciate a variety of talents from our teachers such as:: musical ability, photography, yoga, language skills, art focus, and gardening interests. How could your interests enrich our program?

Compensation

this position is: hourly

Application instructions

Deadline

no deadline