Child Nutrition Assistant Director

Assistant Director will oversee all aspects of the Child Nutrition Program, supervise all Child Nutrition employees, and provide overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of the department.

• Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily
• Bachelor’s degree or higher required
• Working knowledge of federal child nutrition meal and operation requirements
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing a large multi-site team
• Minimum of 5 years related institutional food service

• Supervise Child Nutrition employees.
• Work cooperatively with the State Department of Child Nutrition in seeing that policy and procedures are adhered to including:
  The National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, USDA Commodity Acquisition and Distribution, and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).
• Supervise Child Nutrition purchasing procedures to ensure all district, state, and federal purchasing policies and laws are adhered to.
• Supervise the standardization, preparation, and serving of menus at all schools.
• Visit and inspect all school kitchen/cafeteria facilities and operations as often as possible, but at least monthly, to ensure high standards of food preparation, menu integrity, cleanliness, health, and safety are being maintained, and observe for possible improvements in operations.
• Work cooperatively with the State Health Department and school district to assure that standards of health, cleanliness, and safety are being followed concerning staff, food, and facility.
• Supervise new employee onboarding and all existing employee training including professional development.
• Work closely with the Director to improve employee retention and minimize turnover.
• Work cooperatively with site and district administrators to better student experience in the cafeteria.
• Additional duties that may be assigned by immediate supervisor or above.

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to compose and write grammatically correct correspondence and memos.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, schedule form, or blueprint form.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the 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 use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up or more than 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to or more than 50 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.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the…