Kitchen Assistant

YWCA Seattle King Snohomish • Seattle, WA

7h • $27 • Onsite

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Excellent benefits package including medical insurance, retirement plan, plus generous vacation, holiday, and sick leave plans.
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees