Children’s Cooking Instructor – After-School Enrichment

Children's Cooking Instructor – After-School Enrichment

Part‑Time | Weekday Afternoons | $55 Per Class + Grocery Reimbursement

Do you love cooking, connecting with kids, and creating experiences that are both educational and fun?

Sticky Fingers Cooking® is looking for enthusiastic, dependable Chef Instructors to bring our hands‑on cooking and nutrition curriculum to children and teens ages 3–18.

This is more than teaching kids how to follow a recipe. You'll help young people build confidence, discover new foods, develop real kitchen skills, and become curious about nutrition, culture, geography, and the world around them.

If you're a culinary professional, educator, childcare professional, college student, or simply someone who loves cooking and working with kids, we'd love to meet you!

• Make a meaningful impact: Help children develop lifelong cooking, nutrition, and healthy‑eating habits.
• Enjoy meaningful part‑time work: Classes are typically scheduled on weekday afternoons, making this a great fit for educators, culinary professionals, students, retirees, parents, and other professionals seeking flexible work.
• Bring your personality to the classroom: Our classes are hands‑on, energetic, creative, and designed to keep kids engaged.
• Be fully supported: We provide the curriculum, recipes, training, and mobile cooking equipment you need to teach with confidence.
• Build valuable professional skills: Strengthen your teaching, communication, classroom‑management, leadership, culinary, and presentation skills.
• Work with a supportive team: You'll receive individualized support while becoming part of a team that is passionate about making a difference in children's lives.

As a Chef Instructor, you'll be the face of Sticky Fingers Cooking® in the classroom and create a safe, welcoming, and memorable learning environment.

• Lead hour‑long cooking enrichment classes for groups of approximately 8–14 students.
• Guide students through kid‑tested recipes and age‑appropriate kitchen techniques.
• Teach practical skills such as measuring, mixing, chopping, food preparation, and kitchen safety.
• Introduce students to nutrition, food science, history, geography, and different cultures through cooking.
• Encourage students to try new foods and develop confidence in the kitchen.
• Create an inclusive environment where every child feels successful and supported.

• Review weekly curriculum and recipes before each class.
• Independently purchase fresh ingredients for assigned classes.
• Transport your provided cooking kit and ingredients to the teaching location.
• Arrive approximately 20–30 minutes before class to prepare your teaching space and ingredients.
• Set up, teach, and clean up after each class.

• Build positive relationships with students, school/site staff, and families.
• Maintain a safe, clean, organized, and engaging classroom.
• Reliably complete assigned multi‑week sessions, typically 4–12 weeks.

$55 per one‑hour class

The $55 class rate represents approximately two hours of compensated work
, including preparation, setup, one hour of instruction, and cleanup.

• Teaching: $27.50/hour equivalent
• Grocery reimbursement: $12 per class, plus additional reimbursement when needed
• Training & administrative work: $20/hour
• Cooking equipment: A mobile cooking kit is provided
• Schedule: Classes are generally held Monday–Friday between 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM

For example, you may teach the same class every Monday and Wednesday from 2:30–3:30 PM for the duration of a session.

We're looking for people who are reliable, enthusiastic, organized, and comfortable taking the…