CNP Manager - Striplin (2425.200)

TITLE: Child Nutrition Elementary and Middle School Manager

Status: Non-Exempt

Salary: See District Salary Schedule

Reports to: Child Nutrition Director

Location: School Cafeteria

Hours: 6:15 am – 1:45 pm

Goal: Gadsden City’s Child Nutrition Department vision is to be the world's best lunchroom. Being the best means providing outstanding quality, healthy meals in a clean and pleasing cafeteria environment so that every student in every school smiles.

Required Qualifications:

• ServSafe certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrate management experience in child nutrition or food service production
• A genuine desire to serve quality meals for students
• Nutrition 101
• Ability to communicate effectively both oral and written
• Team player, capable of taking and offering direction in a leadership role
• Computer skills- working proficiency using Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, Excel, and the point of sale system

Duties and Responsibilities: (additional duties may be added)

• Coordinate skills to maintain daily records such as balance of closing register, bank deposits, food usage, food production sheets, and to organize/assign work tasks to child nutrition employees.
• Administrative skills such as monitoring financial data daily; interpreting policies and procedures to ensure program is run according to federal guidelines
• Analytical skills to assure food supplies and equipment are adequate, maintain up-to-date inventory
• Communication skills to communicate effectively with staff, students and parents; interviewing potential child nutrition workers; provide training to child nutrition staff
• Leadership skills such as motivating and setting goals for the school year and to conduct monthly staff meeting
• Manual skills for the preparation of food
• Organizational skills for filing state and local documents for audits
• Mechanical skills to maintain kitchen equipment and to train staff in correct use of equipment
• Planning skills such as when to use USDA food to keep cost down; menu planning; forecasting food amounts weeks in advance; budgeting in order to show profit
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to estimate the amount of food needed each day, to complete daily cash report, bank deposits made daily, time sheets, inventory, purchase orders, bank deposit slips and bank reconciliation procedures as discussed in August manager’s retreat, start- up money locked daily in filing cabinet approved by CNP supervisor.
• Software/word processing skills to operate cafeteria point of sale computer; to complete required daily, monthly and yearly reports; to maintain inventory and to enter/update student roster information
• Prepare child nutrition records and reports. Records data daily and submit reports weekly and monthly to the Child Nutrition Department, USDA, and others both inside and outside of the Gadsden City School System
• Participates in school-wide and individual professional development and attend meetings required Education Service Center (ESC) workshops.
• Attend mandatory In-Service meetings

Equipment:

• Equipment used includes computer and kitchen equipment used in the operation of a commercial food preparation establishment

Safety:

• Considerable responsibility for the safety of others in assuring food is prepared in a safe and sanitary manner

Dress Code:

• T-shirt (plain or school related) and pants/jeans or scrubs. No capri pants or shorts
• No jewelry (earrings and watches) except a plain band
• No nail polish, artificial nails, false eyelashes
• Hair up off your neck with hair net
• Closed toe and slip resistant shoes
• All tattoos must be covered

Work Direction:

• Plans, directs and coordinates the work of child nutrition employees in a small school cafeteria

Problem Solving:

• Ability to solve employee conflict, food shortages, and /or equipment malfunction.
• Ability to push or lift 40 lbs.

Working Condition:

• Work is conducted in a school cafeteria
• Noise from students and kitchen equipment can be excessive; heat from ovens and steamers can produce uncomfortable temperatures; injuries from kitchen equipment are possible; safety rules, training and protective equipment are required

Physical:

• Work involves sustained standing, lifting, and carrying of moderately heavy items

Special Requirements:

• Certification of good health signed by a licensed physician

Job Summary:

• Performs work, including but not limited to, managing food preparation and serving operations; procuring/storing and inventorying food and equipment; maintaining high standards of safety and sanitation in the work environment; supervising the child nutrition staff; handling daily cafeteria cash transactions; and preparing child nutrition records and reports

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of the care and preparation of food
• Knowledge of policies/procedures pertaining to food service program
• Knowledge of basic mathematics and measuring conversions
• Knowledge of safe and sanitary operation of kitchen equipment

Clearances:

• Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance