Esperance Community Teaching Kitchen Coordinator

The Kitchen Coordinator will oversee daily operations for the for the Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities, Food and Farming Program’s Esperance Community Teaching Kitchen, which is the core for local food–based community health, education, programming, events, and food-based classes, and research at Commongrounds, at 414 E Eighth St, Traverse City, Michigan.

As the point person for the teaching kitchen, this position will ensure high standards of quality in food education, sanitation, and kitchen safety practices. This role requires on-site class facilitation for general nutrition and culinary education classes and support for the more technical Culinary Medicine Classes. The kitchen coordinator has overall responsibility for the smooth functioning of the kitchen, which includes communicating and coordinating kitchen calendar with internal and external partners, management of the food supplies, inventory, equipment, A/V technology, safety and sanitation protocols, compliance, and scheduling. Kitchen hours are generally 2pm to 9pm. Work hours per week are based on programming schedules. We anticipate an average of 10 hours a week to start.