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Kitchens for Good is Hiring a Workforce Development Manager Near San Diego, CA
REPORTS TO: Director of Programs
FLSA STATUS: Non-Exempt
COMPENSATION: $27.00-$30.28
LOCATION: San Diego, CA
Kitchens for Good (KFG) transforms lives through culinary arts.
The Workforce Development Manager is pivotal in connecting individuals in our Apprenticeship Program with meaningful employment opportunities to ensure successful completion of the on-the-job training (OJT) portion of their apprenticeship. To meet the diverse needs of apprentices, OJT matching will include placing apprentices with employer partners (based on apprentice skill and employer need), providing ongoing professional development, and facilitating apprentice job search activities. This position focuses heavily on building and maintaining solid relationships with employer partners and industry representatives.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:
Program Management
- Build and maintain relationships with employer partners and workforce development agencies to ensure diverse OJT offerings.
- Collaborate with food service industry representatives to understand workforce needs.
- Identify, prospect, and cultivate relationships with new potential Employer Partners, negotiate and finalize contracts in collaboration with Director of Programs; ensure KFG is compliant with all signed contracts.
- Gather labor market information, talent demands, and skills requirements to create workforce development strategies.
- Develop short and long-term solutions to address employer talent gaps. This can include direct job placement, temp to hire contracting, subsidized externships, and high-touch job search support. Ensure that temp to hire placements are meeting Employer Partner expectations during the placement period. Address and resolve issues as needed.
- Lead team in assessing apprentices to determine what OJT Pathway they are best suited for. The assessment should include a combination of training observation, one-on-one interviewing, and instructor evaluations.
- Provide regular feedback to instruction and training team members to ensure training activities meet industry needs.
- Collaborate with non-profit organizations, community colleges, and employer partners to develop ongoing professional development opportunities for apprentices to accelerate their career growth.
- Collaborate with KFG’s social enterprise managers to provide transitional OJT for apprentices needing more training prior to external placement.
- Serve as the employment database expert, ensuring data is entered and maintained in a timely manner.
- Track and report on outcomes, analyze trends, and identify future needs and opportunities.
- Hire, train, and manage direct reports
- Establish clear expectations and foster a culture of accountability
- Effectively manage projects while empowering others
- Manage performance according to KFG’s evaluation and performance improvement processes.
- Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
- Effective people and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to interact professionally with apprentices, organization staff, volunteers, employer partners, and other related agencies.
- Customer/Client focused with the ability to relate, empathize with and be aware of the perspectives and diversities of others.
- Ability to work both collaboratively and independently.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and CRM software
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study and two years of progressively responsible work experience in workforce development or an equivalent field; OR four years of progressively responsible work experience in workforce development or an equivalent field.
- Familiarity with workforce development programs that serve individuals with barriers to employment.
- Demonstrated success in industry or community engagement, relationship management, sales, marketing, or related fields.
- Experience in creating talent pipelines or talent acquisition. (preferred)
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
In addition to the office, this job operates in a kitchen environment, housed with equipment such as an oven, stove, dishwasher, slicer, coffee machine, steamer, mixer, and chef’s knives. The employee is frequently exposed to heat, steam, fire, and noise.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time non-exempt position with a working schedule on-site of Monday – Friday 8:00am-4:30pm, however occasional evening and/or weekend may be required.
Employee will be expected to travel to as needed, to additional KFG locations, and overnight travel may be required. Employee must have driver’s license, reliable transportation, and ability to work across multiple sites.
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 403(b) retirement savings
- Group-term life insurance coverage
- Professional development budget
- 13 paid holidays
- Generous PTO Plan
Qualified individuals must be able to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation. A qualified person with a disability may request a modification or adjustment to the job or work environment in order to meet the physical requirements of the position.
Kitchens for Good will attempt to satisfy requests as long as the accommodation needed is reasonable and no undue hardship would result.
AT-WILL: The individual hired in this role will be at-will and will be subject to termination by the employee or the Company, with or without cause, with or without notice, and at any time.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA) STATEMENT:
The Company will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please contact Juanita Atitsogbuie at 619-736-1873 or juanita@kitchensforgood.org.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (EEO) STATEMENT:
The Company is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
Job Summary
Full Time
Civic & Environmental Advocacy
$114k-158k (estimate)
05/05/2024
07/02/2024
kitchensforgood.org
ENCINITAS, CA
25 - 50
2014
AVIVA PALEY
<$5M
Civic & Environmental Advocacy
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About Kitchens for Good
Kitchens for Good operates social enterprise kitchens that provide culinary job training for the unemployed, while simultaneously transforming cosmetically imperfect produce into nutritious meals for the hungry. This approach addresses the most immediate need of hunger by feeding the food lines, but also helps to shorten the line itself by giving unemployed people the skills they need to become self-sufficient. Through the power of kitchens and cooking, students transform their lives from one of addiction, incarceration, domestic violence, homelessness, and unemployment, to lives of stability,... employment and a brighter future. Ultimately, KFG believes that kitchens can be economic engines for good in their communities. In addition to tackling issues of food waste, hunger and poverty, KFG ensures its own sustainability by building a profitable food enterprise at the core of each of its kitchens. This model creates on-the-job training opportunities for culinary students while generating revenue to reinvest into KFGs programs. Unlike many nonprofits, KFG generates 69% of its budget through social enterprise revenue, thus reducing its reliance on philanthropy. By marrying a strong social mission with years of business and hospitality experience, we deliver meals and catering services that are created with sustainably sourced local ingredients and are handled with the utmost care and attention. Kitchens for Good: Catering and Events has brought the hospitality industrys top professionals together with a shared vision to create unforgettable, first-class events, while reinvesting all profits into creating good jobs and nourishing the community. As we like to say in our kitchen giving back has never tasted so good!. Have an event in mind- give us a call!
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