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About the Role

The Food Service Specialist ensures appropriate quantities of food are prepared, portioned, and served to IDEA students. This role involves food preparation, recipe adherence, kitchen process compliance, student monitoring during meals, and kitchen cleaning duties.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, portion, and serve food to students.
• Cut and chop fruits and vegetables.
• Follow recipes accurately.
• Adhere to established kitchen processes.
• Monitor student behavior during meal periods.
• Encourage students to consume fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Enforce food sharing policies.
• Perform kitchen cleaning duties including sweeping, mopping, wiping tables, washing dishes, and disposing of trash.
• Restock and reset the kitchen for the next day.
• Operate kitchen equipment, tools, and utensils.
• Provide service to students.
• Handle working with medium to large kitchen equipment.
• Adapt quickly to changing tasks, such as switching from serving food to washing dishes.
• Work around or with an academic calendar.
• Work extended periods with potential time off during breaks.
• Work 8 hours per day during regular school days, with potential overtime.
• May need to work on Saturdays depending on the campus.

Requirements

• Ability to understand food recipes, safe handling of food, and sanitation practices.
• Working knowledge of kitchen/food production procedures.
• Ability to perform basic math skills.
• Works well under pressure in a team setting.
• Ability to lift, bend, pull, push, and twist.
• Possess an interest or passion for working with food.
• Has a basic knowledge or can quickly learn of food production processes.
• Can meet the physical demands of the job (lifting, bending, walking, etc.).
• Has a basic knowledge of providing service to our customers (students).
• Understand how to read and execute recipes.
• Have basic math skills that directly relate to portioning food items in small trays.
• Takes pride in food that is prepared and served to the students.
• Can take direction and feedback well.
• Can take feedback well, especially during mid-year and end of year.
• Can self-reflect and be honest with own performance, desire to correct mistakes quickly.
• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change.
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them.
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly.
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes.
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change.
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization.
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes.
• Hold ourselves to a high level of conduct, professionalism, and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.

Skills

• Food recipes
• Safe food handling
• Sanitation practices
• Kitchen/food production procedures
• Kitchen equipment operation
• Basic math skills
• Teamwork
• Physical stamina (lifting, bending, pulling, pushing, twisting)
• Adaptability
• Customer service

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 0 years of experience

Education Level

• High School Diploma Preferred but Not Required

Salary/Compensations

• $15.90 - $18.29 per hour
• Eligible for a performance bonus based on team performance and goal attainment.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits plan
• Majority of employee premium covered for base medical plan
• Subsidized costs for spouse/domestic partner and children
• Paid Family Leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Tuition Reimbursement (up to 50% of tuition, max $5,250/year)
• Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health (5 face-to-face counseling sessions, unlimited telephonic counseling)
• Work-life services
• DEI Professional Development (affinity space, leadership training)
• Dental and vision plans
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Parenting benefits
• Generous vacation time
• Referral bonuses
• Professional development
• Potential relocation allowance

About the Company

• At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college.
• Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools.
• IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report’s top high schools lists.
• IDEA serves over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Ohio.
• On-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college.
• When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family.
• You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.

Equal Opportunity

• At IDEA we recognize that racism, bias, and privilege exist in society.
• We are committed to an organizational culture that promotes awareness and inclusivity for our students and staff and supports their path to positively impact our broader society.
• We are committed to recognizing the impact of racism and privilege, and commit as an organization to have equitable practices, policies, and structures.
• Visit https://ideapublicschools.org/dei/ to learn about IDEA’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Anti-Racist and Anti-Bias commitment.