Company description Our core intention at The Treehouse Nursery and Preschool is to develop free human beings by surrounding them with an environment of beauty, creativity and wonder. With a firm sense of security, a sense of truth and feeling of responsibility for the earth and others we strive to educate the head, hands and heart of each child. Job description Position: Nursery Kitchen Manager Pay Bracket: $12/hr - $13.50/hr

Employment Type: Part time. | M-F, 9:30-2:30pm. Plus an additional 2 hours each week for management tasks and and additional 1 1/2 hours every other week for bi-monthly staff meetings.

Benefits: Please see our Staff Benefit Package

 

Timetable:

• We ask for a minimum of a 2 year commitment.
• Start Date: October 2018

 

About the Position

We have an organic vegetarian menu at school; as Kitchen Manager at our Nursery program you will be responsible for preparing am snack, lunch, and pm snack 5 days a week for 3-4 staff members and 10 students. You will also file menu claims with the USDA each day, keep up with the USDA standards, maintain sanitation requirements, grocery shop within our budget (both weekly and bulk), manage our birthday celebrations and collaborate for meals at our Fundraising Events.

 

Our Kitchen Manager is also a teacher's assistant throughout the day. Responsibilities for this position include: providing a healthy, nurturing, creative and respectful environment for each child; following our daily rhythm; serving the students our AM snack and Lunch, and being available to assist with students during AM snack and after Nap time, as this is when teachers take their breaks. We also ask that you foster healthy communication with parents and other teachers through daily interactions.

 

As you are able, we ask that you help us maintain our small vegetable garden in the front of the house and our native garden & herb garden in our outdoor classroom. This is a small role for now, with room for growth in the future as funding and expansion becomes available.

 

• Required certificates include (may be obtained upon employment):
  • Pediatric CPR and 1st Aid Certificate
  • Oregon Food Handlers Card
  • Enrollment in the Background Registry
  • Introduction to Child Care Health and Safety (ICCHS).
  • RRCAN

 

• Knowledge of and/or experience in a Waldorf early childhood environment is highly sought after!

 

Compensation this position is : hourly, varies DOE, $12.00 - $13.50 Application instructions Deadlineno deadline