Director of Food Service

KENMORE - TOWN OF TONAWANDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT Notice of Vacancy

Position Title: Director of Food Service

Assignment

Location:

District Administration Building

General Description: The Director of Food Service is responsible for managing district-wide food service within the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program (SBP).

This position is governed by Erie County Civil Service. Only Erie County residents can be considered. The civil service title of the position is “School Lunch Manager.” The title of “Director of Food Service” is an internal title only. The District is required to follow civil service appointment rules. For probationary permanent appointment, the successful candidate must hold the title or be canvassed and reachable from the existing civil service list.

Should a provisional appointment ultimately occur, the successful candidate must meet the minimum qualifications for the position at the time of provisional appointment, and take the civil service examination when made available. Please note that a noncompetitive pathway to fill this position may be available through the NY HELPS program in lieu of a provisional appointment.

A candidate must be able to satisfactorily establish that they meet the following qualifications for appointment:

Notes

• Training in a college, university or technical institute may be substituted for experience on the basis that six (6) months of training is equal to one (1) year of experience.
• Your degree must have been awarded by a college or university accredited by a regional, national, or specialized agency recognized as an accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education/U.S. Secretary of Education. If your degree was awarded by an educational institution outside the United States and its territories, you must provide independent verification of equivalency. A list of acceptable companies who provide this service can be found on the Internet .ny.gov/jobseeker/degrees.cfm.
  
  You must pay the required evaluation fee.
• Verifiable part-time and/volunteer experience will be pro-rated toward meeting full-time experience requirements.

In General

• Work is carried out in accordance with established policy, with discretion provided for the exercise of independent judgment in planning, implementing and overseeing the school lunch program operations to efficiently and economically provide nutritious lunches for school children, reduce food waste, and give students autonomy over their food choices.

Program Administration

• Plans and supervises the preparation and service of lunches in a large school or in several small schools;
• Plans menus or recommends changes in master menus with regard to nutritional values, acceptability and budgetary limitations;
• Determines requirements and submits requisitions for foods, supplies and equipment;
• Prepares layouts and makes recommendations for maintenance of and additions to equipment and physical plant;
• Maintains approved standards of sanitation, health and safety;
• Receives, inspects, stores and distributes supplies and maintains inventories and related records;
• Supervises the collection of and accounting for cash receipts;
• Makes reports relating to school lunch program activities;
• Provides information to school staff, students, and community agencies to promote increased interest in the program.

Personnel Supervision

• Supervises and trains food…