Cafeteria Coordinator

Essex Westford School District; Essex (VT); On-site; USD 27,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Essex Westford School District is hiring a full-time School Cafeteria Coordinator at Essex Elementary School for the school year. The coordinator leads a small team, oversees breakfast and lunch service, and ensures meals meet USDA patterns while maintaining safety and sanitation standards.

The role reports to the Assistant Director of Child Nutrition and collaborates with the Lead Cafeteria Coordinator to plan production, ordering, preparation, and service, fostering a positive, inclusive

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to obtain ServSafe Manager certification within six weeks of hire.
• Broad base of knowledge in quantity, food handling, inventory control, ordering, menu planning, quality control methods, preparation, and cooking.
• Familiarity with National School Breakfast and Lunch programs.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Supervises, coordinates, and evaluates the work of all Cafeteria workers in preparing and serving food and cleaning facilities and equipment.
• Plans and directs daily production with a team of two to three Cafeteria workers to ensure maximum efficiency, accuracy, and quality in meal programs.
• Assist with or perform a wide range of cooking tasks associated with the preparation of student meals.
• Ensures meals served comply with the USDA’s meal pattern for the National School Breakfast and Lunch program.
• Understands and is familiar with the school’s health safety alerts for each child requiring a meal modification; ensures allergen-free meals or components are not cross-contaminated.
• Compliance with State Sanitation Guideline requirements; wear clean outer garments; caps/hair restraints required.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

ServSafe Manager certification

Job description

Essex Westford School District (EWSD) has an opportunity for a full-time, school year School Cafeteria Coordinator at Essex Elementary School.

The Cafeteria Coordinator, under the supervision of the Assistant Director of Child Nutrition, and in collaboration with the Lead Cafeteria Coordinator, performs and supervises the day-to-day breakfast and lunch service at the school site level. This role leads a team of 2-3 Cafeteria Workers in the meal service operations, including planning, ordering, preparation, cooking, service, meal counting, and cleanup.

Pay: $23.51+ per hour, based on experience

Schedule: 7.5 hours/day, Monday-Friday 6:00am to 1:30pm, school year position

Primary job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Supervises, coordinates, and evaluates the work of all Cafeteria workers in preparing and serving food and cleaning facilities and equipment in a production kitchen.
• Plans and directs daily production with a team of two to three Cafeteria workers to ensure maximum efficiency, accuracy, and quality in meal programs.
• Assist with or perform a wide range of cooking tasks associated with the preparation of student meals.
• Ensures meals served comply with the USDA’s meal pattern for the National School Breakfast and Lunch program.
• Understands and is familiar with the school’s health safety alerts for each child requiring a meal modification. Ensures allergen-free meals or components are not cross-contaminated.
• Compliance with State Sanitation Guideline requirements. All employees shall keep clean and wear clean outer garments at all times while engaged in handling food, drink, utensils, or equipment. The use of caps, hair nets, or other hair restraints is required for all food handlers.

What We're Looking For

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Ability to obtain or holds the ServSafe Manager’s certification within six weeks of hire. EWSD will provide the course, and examination, and compensate the Cafeteria Coordinator for their time to become certified.
• A broad base of knowledge and skills in quantity, food handling, inventory control, ordering, menu planning, quality control methods, preparation, and cooking desired.
• Familiarity with the National School Breakfast and Lunch programs is desired.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to promote and/or contribute to a positive, friendly, respectful, inclusive, and professional work environment/culture.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Our District vision is: "Growing hearts and minds, for a better today and tomorrow: every day, every way, every one."

EWSD is committed to building a culturally diverse and inclusive environment. Successful candidates must be committed to working effectively with diverse community populations and are expected to strengthen such capacity if hired. Candidates with experience living or working in another country, the ability to speak more than one language, and/or Peace Corps experience are encouraged to apply.

• EWSD conducts thorough screenings of all applicants being recommended for hire, which may include contacting references not listed on your application. Selected individuals are subject to criminal records background checks and child and adult abuse registry checks. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon acceptable results of these checks at the sole discretion of the Superintendent or his/her designee.