Kitchen Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Would you like a career that changes lives while working with a team built on shared values? Look no further!

At Youth In Need, we value community and relationships. We encourage courageous spaces, leaning into discomfort, and stretching your learning muscles. As a Kitchen Manager , provides leadership for the daily operation of the UCCC kitchen and ensures children receive healthy, nourishing, creative, and developmentally appropriate meals and snacks. This role manages the kitchen environment, prepares and/or oversees food production for approximately 12 classrooms and 130 children daily.

Our Company:

Youth In Need has been around since 1974 helping to create safe places for the area's most vulnerable children. We have more than 400 full- and part-time staff who serve more than 8,000 children, teens and families at nearly 100 locations in six counties in Eastern Missouri.

Youth In Need has been named a St. Louis Post-Dispatch Top Workplace for seven straight years. We are nationally recognized by the US Department of Health and Human Services as an exemplary program.

This Position:

We are interested in a Kitchen Manager with a high school diploma or equivalent. Must obtain/maintain Servsafe Manager certification and other required food safety certification within the required timeframe. Cooking in a childcare setting is preferred. 

Ability to be CPR certified and First Aid certified required. 

Drivers license is required, local travel required, and must be insurable under Youth In Need auto liability coverage. Must be sensitive to the socioeconomic and cultural characteristics of the service population.

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This is an hourly position, starting at $25.00/hour.

Why Apply?

We offer an extensive amount of competitive benefits including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance at low cost
• Paid Time Off including 12 Holidays, 1 Floating Holiday, 12 Sick Days and 2 Weeks Vacation (which increases with years of service)
• 401k with 3% Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance
• Opportunity for growth

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Youth In Need is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to ability, age, ancestry, color, cultural background, faith/religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, income, marital status, national origin, political belief/affiliation, pregnancy, race, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.