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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 and established kitchen processes.
• Monitor student behavior during meal periods.
• Encourage students to consume fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Ensure no food sharing among students.
• Perform kitchen cleaning duties including sweeping, mopping, wiping tables, washing dishes, and disposing of trash.
• Cook, clean, restock, and reset the kitchen for the next day.
• Handle working with medium to large kitchen equipment.
• Adapt quickly to changing tasks, such as switching from serving food to washing dishes.
• Take direction and feedback well.
• Self-reflect on performance and correct mistakes quickly.
• Work around or with an academic calendar, including breaks like Spring Break, Summer Break, Thanksgiving Break, and Winter Break.
• Work 8 hours per day during regular school days.
• Work some overtime as needed.
• Potentially 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 operate kitchen equipment, tools, and utensils.
• Ability to perform basic math skills.
• Ability to work 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 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 students.
• Can take feedback well, especially during mid-year and end-of-year reviews.
• Can self-reflect and be honest with own performance.
• Believes and is committed to the mission of 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.
• Holds a high level of conduct, professionalism, and behaviors as models for colleagues and students.

Skills

• Food recipes
• Safe food handling
• Sanitation practices
• Kitchen/food production procedures
• Kitchen equipment operation
• Basic math skills
• Teamwork
• Lifting
• Bending
• Pulling
• Pushing
• Twisting
• Customer service
• Recipe execution
• Portioning food items
• Adaptability
• Feedback reception
• Self-reflection
• Urgency
• Collaboration

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 0 years of experience

Education Level

• High School Diploma Preferred but Not Required

Salary/Compensations

• $16.22 - $18.66 per hour

Benefits

• Performance bonus based on team performance and goal attainment.
• Comprehensive benefits plan.
• Majority of employee premium covered for the base medical plan.
• Subsidized majority of costs for spouse/domestic partner and children.
• Paid Family Leave: Up to 8 weeks of paid leave for birth or adoption of a child.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Up to 50% of tuition paid toward a qualifying degree program, up to $5,250 maximum per year.
• Employer-Paid Mental/Behavioral Health: 5 face-to-face counseling sessions per year, unlimited 24/7 telephonic counseling, and other work-life services at no cost.
• DEI Professional Development: Opportunities for identity-based affinity space and 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.
• IDEA is 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.