Cooking Instructor

Cooking Instructor 1 26009C Casual North Vancouver Recreation & Culture (NVRC) is dedicated to building healthy individuals, families and communities. NVRC offers a wide range of recreation and cultural programs and services to residents of all ages and abilities. We are currently seeking energetic, responsible and highly-motivated individuals who are able to prepare and lead a variety of age appropriate cooking and baking programs for preschool, school age children and adults.

WHY WORK FOR US?You will be an integral part of our dedicated staff team who continually strive to make a difference in the recreation and cultural lives of North Vancouver residents.

GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE
You will be delivering excellent customer service experiences. You will lead cooking and baking activities while creating a safe and fun environment. Set up, preparation, planning and clean up are responsibilities included in this position.
ABOUT YOU
You are a courteous and effective team player committed to providing quality and safe programs for the community. You are reliable, responsive to customer needs, and excellent at building relationships. You will be comfortable working with children, adults, other leaders, volunteers and facility staff.

DUTIES:As a casual Cooking Instructor 1 you will be responsible for lesson planning, and delivering a fun and interactive culinary learning experience for adults, school age, and/or preschool agechildren. Programs may include both cooking and baking components. Programs run Mon-Fri at a variety of times through the week. Shifts range in length from 3.5 hours to 7 hours.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to the following, and will include tasks beyond the kitchen:

Food preparation and Dishwashing

Set-up and clean-up of cooking classes

Create skills-based lesson plans which include Food Safe guidelines and best practices for food handling

Ensure a premium cooking class experience is delivered to each student

Instructing groups through basic recipes

Occasional grocery shopping

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Comfortable with food preparation (knife skills, safe food handling and basics of food storage)

Experience in a kitchen is preferred

Detail-oriented

Responsible and able to work with limited supervision

Solutions-oriented and adaptable to change

An engaging, creative, hands-on, and interactive manner

QUALIFICATIONS:Applicants must be minimum 16 years of age, with culinary aptitude and have previous experience planning and leading preschool, school age, youth or adult programs. Successful candidates must have current Food Safe Level 1, Emergency or Standard First Aid, CPR Level

C. High Five certification must be obtained within 3 months of employment.

All employees should be prepared to work at any North Vancouver Recreation & Culture location. All candidates are required to submit a Police Information Check as a requirement of the position prior to any appointment. The pay for this casual position ranges between $22.39- $24.52 per hour, based on education and experience, plus 4% vacation pay. Programs run Mon-Fri at a variety of times through the week.

Shifts range in length from 3.5 hours to 7 hours.
APPLY: 01/15/2026 12/31/2026 We thank you for your interest in employment with North Vancouver Recreation and Culture and advise that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.