Job Description The League of Kitchens is an immersive culinary adventure in NYC where immigrants teach intimate cooking workshops in their homes, and participants encounter a new culture, cuisine, and neighborhood with every experience.

This participatory learning / cooking / eating / sharing experience starts with an interactive cooking lesson and leads into a celebratory dinner. Each experience offers opportunities for meaningful connection and social interaction, cultural engagement and exchange, culinary learning and discovery, and exceptional eating and drinking.  Through this experience, we seek to build cross-cultural connection and understanding, and increase access to traditional cooking knowledge.  

The League of Kitchens has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Tasting Table, Serious Eats, the NY Daily News,Saveur, and PRI's the World, among others. Conde Nast Traveler called the League of Kitchens "quite possibly the coolest foodie thing to do in NYC whether you're a visitor or local."

We’re looking for a smart, big-hearted, creative, self-directed, and passionate individual to help us continue to grow this exciting new social enterprise.

The Program Manager will manage daily operations and will oversee communications with our current instructors, our workshop participants, partner organizations, potential instructors, and the general public.  

We promise that you’ll have lots of opportunities to learn and grow, to meet amazing people, to build your network, to cook/eat incredible food, and to contribute in meaningful and substantive ways.  

And as this is a very small operation, you will also be able to shape this role to your interests and to get involved in any other areas of the business that interest you.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary staff member responsible for customer service and for daily operations, including scheduling workshops, ordering and distributing workshop supplies, managing the registration process, and monitoring info and support email inboxes.

• Maintain ongoing communications with instructors and ensure that they have everything they need to teach their workshops. Create monthly instructor invoices and manage receipt reimbursement.

• Solicit survey feedback from workshop participants, monitor and analyze results, and share feedback with other staff and instructors.

• Lead outreach efforts to build partnerships with community organizations to help recruit new instructors. Maintain and expand current partnerships.

• Plan, coordinate, and participate in information sessions and in-home cooking auditions to meet and interview interested candidates.

• Lead outreach efforts to build partnerships with other organizations and companies in order to attract more students. Maintain and expand current partnerships.

• Participate in community and partner events and publicly represent the League of Kitchens.

Who are we looking for?

• In general, you’re great with people.  You connect easily with people from different backgrounds and cultures. You’re sensitive to complex and subtle social and cultural dynamics.  You’re great at building and maintaining relationships.  

• You can talk with anyone and you love talking with everyone.  You’re clear and articulate when you speak, and you’re great on the phone.

• You have excellent written and verbal skills.  You know how to shape your writing to fit the platform and the audience.

• You’re warm, energetic, and enthusiastic, and you’re always polite and professional in your interactions.

• You have experience working with people and communities from different backgrounds and cultures, ideally non-native English speakers.

• You’re excited about using food and cooking as a way to build cross-cultural connection and understanding, and you’re passionate about promoting the contributions that immigrants make to our culture and society.

• You’re super organized, dependable, thorough, and detail-oriented.  

• You’re self-directed and self-motivated.  You’re as happy working on your own as you are collaborating with others. You take initiative and go the extra mile.  You’re good at prioritizing and organizing workflow, and juggling multiple tasks.  You’re always trying to find ways to improve your work and your process.

• You’re flexible and adaptive and have a great sense of humor.

Hours: 10-20 hours/week

Must be available to attend some weekend activities and events. Some availability on some weekdays during business hours preferred.

Stipend: $800/month

Location: Flexible/Shifting. (But applicant must be based in the NYC area.) Compensation this position is How to apply Deadlineno deadline