Food Services Coordinator: Lead & Train in Nutritious Meals

Maryland Nonprofits; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Helping Up Mission, Inc. is seeking a Food Services Coordinator to assist the Food Services Manager in daily operations, ensuring safe, nutritious meals for residents, while modeling core values and professional conduct.

You will lead work-therapy food service activities, train clients on safety and hygiene, supervise dining room staff, and maintain documentation for meals, inventories, and inspections in a compassionate, faith-based setting.

Qualifications

• Exhibit the Core Values of Helping Up Mission, Inc.
• Strong verbal communications skills and demonstrated ability to write clearly.
• Strong leadership ability.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds in a fair, supportive, and cooperative manner.
• Food Safety Certification.

Responsibilities

• Act as a role model to HUM program clients and help them to adjust to the program & community.
• Teach kitchen hygiene, food service, planning, preparation, storage & proper handling to the clients assigned to work therapy in this department.
• Lead clients on the daily work therapy tasks.
• Work with clients to instill a solid work ethic & professionalism.
• Complete documentation of individuals who fail to follow departmental procedures.
• Assist and coordinate the preparation of meals with the Food Services Manager.
• Prepare and serve nutritious meals daily while adhering to food safety regulations and guidelines.
• Leadership and supervision of dining room crews regarding setup and service of meals.
• Orientation of new workers in the food service department, and meeting with various work teams to review their adherence to our job descriptions.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of all areas of the kitchen and dining room.
• Oversee completion of daily, weekly, monthly, and annual cleaning and preventive maintenance schedules.
• Adhere to food service protocols, i.e., implementation of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points. principles in the storage, production, holding, service and reheating of all foods.
• Working with other leaders to maintain a smooth flow through the facility.
• Create a client work therapy schedule.
• Train clients on food safety, preparation, and work ethics.
• Maintain and establish relationships with volunteers and donors.
• Oversee the receipt of products and services.
• Oversee the logistics of receiving, storage and rotation of food from other HUM location.
• Facilitate all holiday food services, meals/events.
• Establish and maintain documentation records of food temperature, date of storage and handling.
• Maintain all applicable or required food safety certifications.
• Report daily, or as required, all pertinent information regarding food service operations to the Food Services Manager, e.g., adjustments to menus, recipes, or production amounts.
• Assist Food Services Manager in the performance of catered functions.
• Enter data from the MD Food Bank weekly.
• Transfer donation reports/receipts to Philanthropy monthly.
• Check all kitchen logbooks daily, weekly, monthly, and annually.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Core values

Verbal communication

Leadership

Diversity & inclusion

Food Safety Certification

Job description

Helping Up Mission, Inc. is seeking a Food Services Coordinator to assist the Food Services Manager in daily operations, ensuring safe, nutritious meals for residents, while modeling core values and professional conduct.

You will lead work-therapy food service activities, train clients on safety and hygiene, supervise dining room staff, and maintain documentation for meals, inventories, and inspections in a compassionate, faith-based setting.