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This job expired on February 10, 2019

The Teaching Kitchen Chef Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

  • Date Posted December 12, 2018
  • Location New York, NY
  • Category Nonprofit
  • Job type Full-Time
Company description

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, widely recognized as one of New York’s premier human services providers, is a 125-year-old settlement house that provides an extensive array of effective and integrated services – social, educational, legal, health, housing, mental health, nutritional and fitness –which significantly improve the lives of 15,000 people in need each year on the East Side of Manhattan. Our clients range in age from 3 to 103 and include older adults, homeless and formerly homeless adults, children and families, recent immigrants, disabled persons, adult learners and thousands more. For more information on Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, please visit our website at www.lenoxhill.org.


Lenox Hill Neighborhood House’s model farm-to-institution program serves 350,000 fresh, healthy and delicious meals a year to thousands of low-income New Yorkers. We use more than 90% fresh produce and serve 70,000 pounds of locally-sourced produce and grains each year. For many of our clients, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House is their primary source for meals. Our kitchen is open 365 days a year, preparing and serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks to the 3-5 years olds in our Early Childhood Center, the 5-11 year olds in our after school program and summer camp, the women in our shelter and the older adults that we serve in our two senior centers.

Job description

We are looking for a mission-conscious, bilingual English/Spanish Teaching Kitchen Chef to work directly with a small but highly effective team to scale The Teaching Kitchen to train 50-100 nonprofit organizations annually. We seek an individual with a passion for healthy food, food justice and health equity, interest in working to improve food systems and the ambition to work to improve the lives of low-income New Yorkers. The Teaching Kitchen Chef will function as one of the public faces of our program and the organization and must be a skilled public speaker and communicator; experience as an educator, trainer or public speaker is preferred.
 

The Teaching Kitchen Chef will report to the Director of Philanthropy and Healthy Food Initiatives and the Teaching Kitchen Executive Chef and will lead trainings, conduct site visits, provide technical assistance, lead cooking demonstrations and professional development workshops, help nonprofit staff to overcome barriers, help nonprofits choose goals and implement change, benchmark organizations and collect data to measure program effectiveness, present to conferences and funders, create social media content, write program materials, design healthy menus and more.


Lenox Hill Neighborhood House created a model farm-to-institution food services program preparing 390,000 fresh, healthy and locally sourced meals annually for two senior centers, a homeless shelter, a Head Start program, after school, summer camp and a day program for older adults living with dementia. We use more than 90% fresh produce (30-40% of it locally-sourced), regional grains and dairy and sustainably harvested regional fish. We are the largest institutional customer of Greenmarket Co./GrowNYC, the nonprofit food hub, and host a weekly GrowNYC food box program. Each year we serve or distribute more than 112,000 pounds of fresh, local food.  


We launched The Teaching Kitchen at Lenox Hill Neighborhood House in 2015 to help nonprofit organizations with institutional food programs serving low-income clients to serve more fresh, healthy and local food – without raising costsThe Teaching Kitchen is a nonprofit food business and skills course for nonprofit food service program directors, chefs, nutritionists and lead kitchen staff who design menus, order supplies, provide nutrition oversight and programming and prepare food. After an initial two-day training, the program provides a full year of technical assistance and support to nonprofits to help them implement incremental, sustainable change through ongoing goal setting.


The Teaching Kitchen works directly to improve the health of New Yorkers by making government-funded meals healthier, but also by working to localize publicly funded institutional food systems, more broadly improving health of New Yorkers and strengthening the regions’ farms, economy and sustainability.  To date, we have trained 64 nonprofit organizations serving more than 5.5 million meals annually.


The Teaching Kitchen has generated an enormous amount of interest. The program was featured in The New York Times and received an Emerging Innovator Award from the New York State Health Foundation, describing the program as “poised to make radical improvements to the state of New York’s health over the next 10 years.”  Over the coming year, The Teaching Kitchen Chef will help us to expand the scale and scope of the program as we begin working with nonprofits in upstate New York, develop new program materials and models, and present at national conferences to expand the impact of our work.


Culinary degree and/or work experience in restaurants or institutional kitchens required.

Fluent English/Spanish strongly preferred.

A competitive compensation package will be provided to the successful candidate.

Compensation this position is : salaried, varies DOE, $50,000.00 - $60,000.00 Application instructions
This job expired on February 10, 2019
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