VILLAGES TEMPLATE: Temporary Cook's Helper

Temporary Cook's Helper

North Slope Borough School District Wainwright, AK, USA May 18, 2026 Temporary

Assist in the preparation and service of food in a manner that will ensure nutritious meals and snacks, served at appropriate times, while safeguarding the health of students, staff, and visitors.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

• A graduate from high school or a general education degree is required.

Language Skills and Abilities:

• Present information and respond clearly and understandably to questions from supervisor, staff, students, and the public.
• Read and interpret procedures, policies, and regulations, such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

Reasoning Ability:

• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of non-standard situations.
• Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• Current Alaska Driver's License

Preferred Skills and Abilities:

• Iñupiaq speaking, language & culture experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Participate in the production and service of palatable school meals.
• Participate in storage, clean up, and safety tasks
• Operate the food service vehicles to deliver food and staff to and from the school sites.
• Expedite incoming and outgoing food to locations as required.
• Process incoming freight and check necessary paperwork.
• Lift and stock freight in appropriate storage areas. Keep all storage areas neat and clean.
• Operate a pallet jack for positioning pallets of food.
• Lift 70 pounds.
• Perform such other tasks and assume other responsibilities as the supervisor may assign.
• Adhere to all District policies and regulations.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 70 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions:

The employee is regularly required to work in noisy, overcrowded environments, and around dust, fumes, and odors, cleaning chemicals, work with hands in water, and must operate machinery with moving parts.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Benefits:

Work Year: School-Year

Range and Minimum Salary Grade: Grade 12

$22.47 (Per Hour)

The North Slope Borough School District is located at the "top of the world" in Northern Alaska. Our communities are populated predominantly by the Iñupiat, and today, as in many thousands of years past, we live the Iñupiaq way. Having embraced modern amenities that make life easier, we continue to practice our hunting and sharing traditions and very much value the structure that those activities bring into our lives.

We are a welcoming and friendly people who believe strongly in the value of education. Our highly trained certified and classified staff are dedicated to serving the children of our communities. They work together to meet the unique needs of every student in the district.

Our students are fully immersed in preparing for tomorrow while honoring and perpetuating the priceless traditions and culture they have as a legacy from the past. Our children exude all the warmth and sunshine one could ever hope to find.

We are led by a visionary board. Their mission for our district calls for every child to become proficient in reading, writing and mathematics while gaining an understanding of and appreciation for the values, culture, history and language of the Iñupiat.