Summer Temp Berea Kids Eat Meal Specialist

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Description

The Berea Kids Eat Meal Specialist will be responsible for planning and designing the menu and meal patterns for the Summer Food Service Program. This position will collaborate closely with Grow Appalachia’s Nutrition Programs Coordinator, its Operations & Compliance Specialist, its Executive Director, and food vendors to develop a robust and enhanced summer menu. The Specialist will work to prioritize local food when possible, while ensuring that all meals and menu patterns meet the requirements laid out by the USDA. This position will help ensure meals distributed through the Berea Kids Eat program not only meet all requirement, but are healthy, nutritious, and kid-friendly. Berea Kids Eat, one of Grow Appalachia’s nutrition programs, functions as a multi resource initiative which aims to reach many needs of youth including nutrition, healthy eating and food related education, and on-site enrichment programming.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Design the menu pattern for USDA Sun Meal service (formerly the Summer Food Service Program)
• Ensure all meals and menus meet the required USDA meal components and serving sizes for the Summer Food Service Program
• Collaborate with Berea College's Dining/Sodexo and other food vendors to provide robust and nutritious meals for youth under 18
• Work to source local fruits and vegetables when possible, to enhance summer meals
• Design menus and meals that are kid-friendly and kid-celebrated
• Support the Nutrition Programs Coordinator and Operations and Compliance Specialist in ensuring compliant documentation as required by the USDA Summer Food Service Program
• When necessary, help distribute meals and contribute to meal service
  
  

What You'll Bring

Education required to ensure success in this position:

• Undergraduate degree or 3-5 years relevant experience
  
  

Experience Required To Ensure Success In This Position

• Undergraduate degree or 3-5 years relevant experience
• Comprehensive understanding of USDA Child Nutrition Programs including the SUN Meals program (formerly the USDA Summer Food Service Program) or the CACFP Program
• Sourcing food items
• Local foods procurement
• Menu planning and food vendor relationships
• Background in agriculture, meal service, or food production
  
  

Special Skills, Knowledge And Abilities

• Microsoft office and Excel, PowerPoint and other presentation software
• Meal component and menu pattern background (including understanding of size and types of required USDA meal components)
• Ability to develop work plans and timelines utilizing SMART goals and other similar formats
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with cloud-based storage programs such as Box
  
  

License, Certification, Or Registration Necessary

• Valid driver’s license
• Required background checks
• Trained in SFSP programs
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift containers of food from vehicle to serving area
• Ability to navigate campus/public buildings and grounds
  
  

Environmental Conditions

• Mobile neighborhood summer meal routes
• Office work - Professional office environment with interruptions and noise due to frequent visitors, students, staff and faculty
• Community sites and public spaces
• Government offices and buildings
• Outdoors in variety of nonhazardous weather such as heat, humidity, rain
  
  

Ability To Operate The Following Vehicles Or Equipment

• Standard office equipment: computer, fax, phone, etc.
• Vehicle – college vans/cars
  
  

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $204,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is listed #20 in overall ranking in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse college rankings, 2023. The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #2 Best Liberal Arts College and #1 in Social Mobility, 2023. Money Magazine ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South, 2023. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2023.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!

Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

This position is not eligible for benefits, however, Berea College still offers unique position opportunities you can read more about below.

Our Unique Culture

Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Berea's Great Commitments.

Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea

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In support of Berea College’s great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link Labor Program Office.