Early Childhood Food Services-- Cook

Summary

Kid Angles is looking for the right candidate who is flexible and organized for a fulfilling job cooking for young children aged 3 months – 5 years. Our Food Coordinator will work alongside our administration to maintain weekly rotating menus, take weekly inventory, and prepare meals. Must be able to follow individualized dietary guidelines for children and supply supplements for children with dietary restrictions.

Preferred hours: 9 am–2 pm, Monday–Friday; however, there is some flexibility if necessary.

• Prep and Serve Meals
• Maintain/Follow all dietary needs of students within the school
• Work with our administration to create meal plans
• Assures that the kitchen is equipped with all necessary food and cooking items for scheduled meals
• Record and submit weekly inventory
• Inform our administration of equipment malfunctions
• Responsible for the cleanliness of the Kitchen, inventory, facility restroom, and common areas
• Ability to work in a safe and efficient manner
• Proficient communication skills
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism
• Demonstrates time management and priority-setting skills
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality
• Possesses the flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Highly thorough and dependable
• Working knowledge of preparation methods and practices for a variety of foods
• Knowledge of basic kitchen sanitation methods and food safety practices
• Ability to interpret and follow oral and written instructions
• Ability to read and interpret recipes and calculate necessary quantities of ingredients
• Ability to coordinate both preparation and timing for menu food items
• Ability to perform work requiring considerable standing and light-medium physical effort under hot and or humid working conditions
• Ability to maintain acceptable standards of personal hygiene
• Ability to review and analyze impending menus to determine appropriate levels for supplies

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 2 years of cooking experience

• Background check
• Drug test
• Physical
• TB Test
• CPR & First Aid
• Food Safety (Serv Safe) certification within 180 Days from date of hire

• Food Safety (Serv Safe) certification
• Experience interacting with young children

• 11 paid holidays per year
• Paid time off
• Employee Discount
• Supplemental Insurance

Play and learning at Kid Angles is about the process, not the product. Children are able to reach their potential in each domain of development through our play-based, Reggio Emilia-inspired practices. We believe that children are capable of complex thinking, curious, independent, full of possibilities, and competent. They are capable of exploring and constructing their own findings. Children are wonders: they question everything, develop a deeper understanding, make predictions, and communicate their discoveries.

The environment is meant to be a third teacher, playing an important role by sparking a child’s interest and inspiring wonders. The environment will provide learning experiences in response to children’s interests with intentional materials that promote deeper thinking skills. The materials provided will enrich the environment by allowing them to bump into literacy and math throughout the day.

An educator’s role in this type of classroom may look very different than most. (And it takes some time to get used to this idea!) Said by Loris Malaguzzi, “Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.” This quote says it all.

An educator’s role is to work as a partner in learning. We are to provoke children’s ideas, model questioning and researching attitudes, and listen.
The Director’s role in our facility is to manage day-to-day operations, working closely with educators and families to ensure a successful program. The Director adjusts and implements effective policies and procedures that promote the program's philosophy.
The Classroom Mentor’s role in our facility is to onboard and guide educators in classroom management, curriculum development, and implementation of Reggio Emilia-inspired practices.