Culinary Instructor

Description:

Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy is seeking a Culinary Instructor within its Entrepreneurship Program to train students in the art of cooking by applying innovative, engaging, and practical hands-on curriculum in its state-of-the-art teaching kitchen.

Qualifications:

Beyond the ability to teach cooking skills, safe food handling, and sanitation to classes of 12 high school students, this dynamic and exciting role will require the following:

• ServSafe certification
• Willingness to work beyond regular school hours
• Flexible and spontaneous nature while also being disciplined and focused
• Excited by new opportunities
• Must take ownership of the kitchen space beyond the classroom
• Ability to host and teach field trips for Grade K-8 students
• Occasionally prepare catered items for school requests with the assistance of enrolled students
• Professional nature always ready to represent this amazing program with a positive and generous attitude

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with culinary program manager to ensure clarity on curriculum expectations
• Lead lectures and hands-on sessions
• Assign cooking projects and written assessments
• Grade students on their performance
• Support and encourage thinking outside the box by empowering students to be problem solvers
• Maintain order and cleanliness of the entire kitchen space

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Certificate or degree in culinary arts
• Strong communication skills
• Teaching or training experience (preferred)
• Valid State of Ohio teaching certification

Desired Competencies :

• Serves as a role model for the students
• Full commitment to the mission and values of CHCA
• Utilizes constructive feedback as an opportunity for growth and handles conflict and criticism effectively
• Ability to create a positive learning environment that is respectful and promotes the interests of students first, while setting appropriate expectations for student growth and success
• Ability to develop a professional rapport with diverse school/campus constituents
• Ability to fulfill duties without continued direct supervision
• Ability to learn from students' participation, demonstrates fair and consistent behavior in all matters, and shows compassion without being ineffectual
• Desire to contribute and assist with outreach initiatives to advance the Entrepreneurship Program

CHCA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will be considered.

Essential functions under the Americans with Disabilities Act may include any of the duties, knowledge and skills listed above. This list is illustrative only and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and duties performed by employees in this position. Regular attendance is an essential function of this job.

The physical demands, work environment factors, and mental functions described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

MENTAL FUNCTIONS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to compare, analyze, communicate, copy, coordinate, instruct, compute, synthesize, evaluate, use interpersonal skills, compile and negotiate.