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Kitchen Assistant en Ywcaworks

Ywcaworks · Seattle, Estados Unidos De América · On-site

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Description

Why work with YWCA Seattle King Snohomish?
 
YWCA SKS is the region’s largest non-profit organization with a 120+ year legacy, focused on the needs of women, with programs serving 7,000 people each year. When you work with YWCA, you make a difference.
 
We’re women and BIPOC-led, family-centered, and supportive of employees. As a full-time YWCA employee (30+ hours), you’ll enjoy a benefits package including medical insurance, generous vacation, holiday, sick leave plans, and an outstanding retirement plan. Put your passion for racial equity and social justice to work – apply today!




What You'll Do
 
The Angeline’s Day Center Kitchen Assistant will assist the Kitchen Lead, including providing effective training for food meal program interns, and volunteers. The Angeline’s meal program serves thousands of nutritious meals to homeless women monthly. Angeline’s offer nutritious meals up to 75 women at each meal. YWCA Angeline’s Day Program is a drop-in program for homeless women. This program offers showers, meals, laundry facilities, mental health counseling, health care, classes and activities.
 
This position has a social justice component that will allow for critical thinking around how the external systems impact the work that we are doing through the lens of racism and intersections with poverty. Valuing diversity and championing anti-racism policy are core values. As an equal opportunity employer, we highly encourage people of color. 
 
Schedule: Wednesday - Sunday (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 7:30am-4:00pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-6:30pm)

Expectations of your role:

  • Produces nutritious, tasty and visually appealing meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 75 women.
  • Performs administrative duties: coordinating the weekly schedule, order food through Food lifeline, plan weekly menus and post meals daily.
  • Manage our food quality standard by monitoring the temperature of hot and cold food according to health and safety standards and food safety.
  • Assist in organizing the supplies in storage rooms, freezers, walk in cooler, refrigerators and manage inventory rotation.
  • Maintains adequate inventory of food and supplies using donations, commodities, food banks, and other resources.
  • Plans, coordinates, and participates as required in the preparation, cooking, serving food and pick up donations.
  • Pick up donations and assist in unloading food deliveries arriving several times a week.
  • Maintains kitchen, dining room, and equipment in sanitary and organized condition that meets health and safety standards and all contractual agreements.
  • Works with crisis advocates to support clients’ needs and ensure their safety in the dining room.
  • Welcomes Orientates Volunteer and Community Groups
  • Incorporates and work alongside volunteers where applicable into program operations.
  • Adheres to all Volunteer Services protocol relative to volunteer usage, recognition and monitoring.

    • Must have's to be successful:

  • Two years of Industrial/ quantity cooking
  • Skilled in cooking and preparing a variety of meals and includes healthy food options
  • Current Food Handlers Card and demonstrate ability in safe handling food
  • Experience with commercial kitchen equipment
  • Ability to develop, plan and implement goals for kitchen
  • Ability to work with computer-based programs, spreadsheets, excel, word, record keeping skills, outlook is required
  • Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to social justice, racial and gender equity and the ability to ground those principles in everyday work.

    • Hours, Rate, and Benefits

  • Hourly Range: $26.50
  • Hours per week: 40 
  • Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, retirement plan, plus generous vacation, holiday, and sick leave plans. For more information about our benefits, please visit: YWCA Careers & Benefits Information.
  • At the time of hire, employees may enroll voluntarily in the Fidelity 403b Plan
  • After two years of employment, employees are eligible to participate in the YWCA Retirement Fund

    • Physical Requirements

  • Ability to lift and carry loads up to 50 pounds multiple times a day
  • Repetitively uses hands, and wrists, fingering, handling, grasping, reaching in using food, cleaning supplies and serving utensils
  • Required to bend, reach, walk and stand for extended period of time

    • Additional Information

    #LI-Onsite
     

    YWCA encourages applicants with a variety of experiences to apply!
    At YWCA, we recognize that lived expertise is a powerful asset. This refers to the insights, knowledge, and skills developed by those who have navigated systems and experienced inequity.

    Valuing lived expertise helps build trust with program participants, develop culturally responsive programs, and break down barriers to equity. It enriches our collective understanding and enhances our ability to serve communities that are furthest from opportunity.

    Mental Health Considerations
    All employees of the YWCA interact with clients who have experienced or are experiencing trauma in various forms, including but not limited to, racial trauma, domestic violence, sexual violence, homelessness, unemployment, and financial hardship. As a result, employees are at risk of secondary trauma. We encourage employees to seek support inside and outside the workplace and maintain self-care routines.

    Equal Opportunity Employment
    YWCA Seattle King Snohomish is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  To read more about this, view the EEO is the Law Poster and this EEO is the Law Poster Supplement.

    For more information
    Contact us at [email protected] with any questions or if you need accommodation for your application.

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