Assistant Director, Board Dining
- Employer
- Middlebury College
- Location
- Vermont, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not specified
- Date posted
- Dec 3, 2024
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Business & Administrative Affairs, Food Services Management
- Employment Level
- Mid-Level
- Employment Type
- Full Time
Job Details
Assistant Director, Board Dining
Description
The Assistant Director is responsible for the entire board dining operations to include supervision and training of cook staff and front of the house staff, establishment and maintenance of consistent quality, safety and sanitation standards, menu planning and food cost containment.
This is a full time, benefits eligible, salaried position with a hiring range of $72,480-$90,594 per year.
Core Responsibilities:
- Directs the Board operations staff with interviewing, hiring,
scheduling, training, and professional development.
- Establishes and maintains high quality standards of food
production, presentation, service and sanitation, operational
safety and expediency of line service.
- Design the rotating menu that supports the operations
throughout the year including the chefs, bakers and managers to
ensure they stay within the budgeted cost per meal and are
appealing to the broad spectrum of tastes that reside within the
student community. This is for the main campus as well as the other
peripheral Middlebury operations.
- Responds to meet the special requests of our students who are
trying to accommodate our menu cycle to their dietary
need.
- Promotes and supports the software systems that manage cycle
menus, recipes, costing, forecasting, ordering, production, signage
allergen/ingredient listings for all board plan dining
operations
- Manages food costs through careful and consistent review of
production records, purchase volumes by category using inventory
spreadsheets, standardized recipes, waste control procedures and
collaboration with the central purchaser.
- Directs large campus events to include the creation and layout
of kitchen equipment stations, menu and staffing, including
commencement, reunion and other large functions. May be required to
supervise kitchen staff at special events.
- Participates in the strategic planning of events and projects that affect Dining Services, including but not limited to kitchen design, staff modeling and long-range planning.
Requirements
Education and Experience
- Education: Associate's degree in Culinary Arts required
(equivalent progressive work history will be
considered).
- Chef Experience: 6–10 years of chef experience required,
preferably in a college or large-volume production
environment.
- Supervisory Experience: Supervisory experience required, including multiple-unit supervision.
Knowledge and Skills
- Food Preparation: Thorough knowledge of food preparation
methods, writing recipes using standard quantities and measures,
and safe/sanitary storage techniques.
- Interpersonal Skills: Good interpersonal skills with
proven leadership and motivational abilities.
- Communication Skills: Strong verbal and writing
skills.
- Computer Skills: Advanced computer skills to navigate kitchen software programs.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions
Must be able to lift 10-20 lbs. numerous times each day and up to 50 lbs. several times each day. Must be able to push and pull up to 75 lbs. frequently. Requires long periods of time standing, as well as frequent bending and reaching.
Other:
Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.
Benefits
As an employee of Middlebury College, you will enjoy being part of a vibrant supportive community. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and competitive health, dental, life, disability, generous retirement matching, and vision benefits, Middlebury offers a generous time-away program - up to 34 days per year during the first two years of service, increasing as the term of service lengthens. Middlebury employees are eligible for robust educational assistance programs as well as free or reduced rates for cultural events and use of sporting facilities (including the College's golf course and Nordic and alpine ski areas). The result is a very high quality-of-life in a gorgeous setting. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and other perks of employment including:
- MiddCard Privileges: access to athletic facilities, discounts at the College store, library privileges, and discounts at cultural and sporting events. In addition, the card allows door access to certain campus buildings.
- Spouses or domestic partners of benefits-eligible employees are
eligible to receive a Spouse/Partner card with the same privileges
as the employee card (except door access).
- Discounts on season passes at Middlebury College Snow Bowl, the
Ralph Myhre Golf Course and the Rikert Outdoor Center.
- Access to our
Partner Inclusion Program that provides comprehensive support
services to the spouses and partners of Middlebury
employees.
- A full listing of our benefit offerings can be found on our
website by following this web link: https://go.middlebury.edu/benefits
- Or click see some of the other fun perks of working at Middlebury, whether in Vermont or Monterey!
Middlebury College is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
To apply, visit: https://apply.workable.com/middleburycollege/j/4965EEE22C/
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Company
Middlebury is one of the country's top liberal arts colleges. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward, and a realization that the traditional insularity of the United States is something of the past. We seek to bring to Middlebury those who wish not only to learn about themselves and their own traditions, but also to see beyond the bounds of class, culture, region, or nation. Indeed, the central purpose of a Middlebury education is precisely to transcend oneself and one's own concerns. This transcendence may come for some through the study of other cultures; for some through the study of the environment; for others it will come through inquiry into such fields as physics or philosophy, mathematics or music.
Middlebury's undergraduate college is enriched by its other programs. Every summer, the main campus in Vermont is transformed into an institution single-mindedly devoted to the study of nine foreign languages and cultures, and the use of English is virtually banned for the participants, among whom are many Middlebury undergraduates. In the Green Mountains lies Middlebury's Bread Loaf campus, where for six weeks each summer the Bread Loaf School of English is in session. This is followed by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, which brings together 200 authors and aspiring authors for 11 days of intensive exchange about the art of writing. The Bread Loaf School of English is in session each summer not only in Middlebury but also at Lincoln College, Oxford, in the United Kingdom; at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville
There is also an overseas dimension to Middlebury College. The C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad are located in Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Concepción, Córdoba, Ferrara, Florence, Getafe, Guadalajara, Hangzhou, Irkutsk, La Serena, Logroño, Madrid, Mainz, Montevideo, Moscow, Niterói, Paris, Poitiers, Santiago, Temuco, Tucumán, Valdivia, Valparaíso, Xalapa, and Yaroslavl. These schools enroll more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students who seek to further their foreign language skills and immerse themselves as fully as possible in the host culture through academic study as well as direct experience.
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