Kitchen Shift Lead

Kitchen Shift Lead

Urban Adamah is an educational farm and community center in Berkeley, California that integrates the practices of Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social justice to build loving, just, and sustainable communities. We provide training programs, educational workshops, and community celebrations for more than 10,000 visitors annually.

About The Role

Seeking a Shift Lead to support kitchen operations on an urban farm and retreat center in Berkeley. This is a dynamic position to nourish guests of multi-day retreats and special events like weddings, b'mitzvahs, and birthday parties. Our kitchen is inclusive, respectful, and low drama with high standards. We work hard to honor the needs of our staff and the needs of our guests, providing thoughtful, healthy, pescatarian food with global influences.

High Level Responsibilities

• Running all aspects of a shift from food preparation and cooking, running service (including dining room maintenance), washing dishes, as well as cleaning and kitchen shutdown.
• Managing stations during events, supporting with procurement, and recipe/SOP refinement.

Schedule

• 10-30 hours per week with a variable, events-based schedule.
• Open to a mix of weekend and weekday shifts.
• Good availability (opening shifts may begin as early as 5:30 am, closing shifts may go as late as 11 pm).

Qualifications

• 1+ years in a commercial/high volume kitchen.
• Proven experience leading a kitchen team of 1-3 staff.
• Ability to work independently and be responsible for operations in Chef's absence.
• Valid California Serv Safe Certificate or ability to obtain within 30 days of hire.

About You

• Strong attention to cleanliness and food safety.
• Ability to follow new recipes successful in a timely fashion and troubleshoot/make adjustments in the moment.
• Growth oriented mindset, willingness to learn and receive feedback in the moment.
• Ability to supervise and direct tasks for kitchen support staff in a collaborative manner.
• Punctual, responsible, kind.

Physical Demands of the Position

• Standing for long periods of time while cooking.
• Ability to lift up to 40 lbs.

Compensation & Benefits: $30/hour to start. Supervision: This position is supervised by the Kitchen Manager.

Application Details

We deeply value the diversity of insight, perspective, and experience brought by people from diverse backgrounds. This includes Black, Indigenous, Latino, and Asian people, LGBTQ, and gender non-conforming people, and people with disabilities, Black Jews, Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrachi Jews. We also welcome applications from people of diverse religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds. We affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.

Application submission includes: Please provide a resume and a brief statement to introduce yourself with information about your experience, interests, and availability. After a first interview, you may be asked for 2 references at that point.