Kitchen and Facility Manager at University of Vermont Hillel

About the role

Hillel at the University of Vermont is seeking a reliable, organized, and hands-on Kitchen and Facility Manager to support Jewish student life through food, hospitality, and care for the Burack Hillel Center.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, cook, and help serve meals for Shabbat dinners, Jewish holidays, Sunday brunches, student programs, and special events.
• Help plan menus with Hillel staff and student leaders.
• Prepare meals for both small gatherings and larger community meals.
• Cook and support meals that meet common dietary needs, including vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and allergy-sensitive options.
• Coordinate food purchasing, shopping lists, and kitchen supply needs with Hillel staff.
• Maintain food, paper goods, cookware, serving supplies, cleaning supplies, and kitchen equipment inventory.
• Maintain Hillel’s kosher kitchen standards and procedures.
• Ensure that food preparation, storage, labeling, equipment use, and cleanup follow Hillel’s kosher practices.
• Help students, volunteers, and staff understand and follow kitchen expectations.
• Keep the kitchen clean, organized, safe, and ready for use.
• Support the care of shared spaces, including the kitchen, dining areas, lounge, meeting spaces, study areas, storage areas, and supply closets.
• Set up and reset rooms for Shabbat dinners, holiday gatherings, student programs, meetings, and community events.
• Move tables, chairs, couches, and other furniture as needed.
• Identify basic facility needs, maintenance concerns, supply issues, and safety concerns, and communicate them clearly to Hillel staff.
• Cook and support student kitchen interns, student employees, and volunteers in cooking, food safety, setup, service, and cleanup.
• Create a warm and welcoming environment for students in the kitchen, dining spaces, and throughout the building.

Requirements

• Cooking and baking skills, with comfort preparing meals for groups.
• Experience in a communal kitchen, commercial kitchen, catering, dining services, hospitality, facilities, or food service environment preferred.
• Experience working in a kosher kitchen preferred, or willingness to learn kosher food practices.
• Comfort with hands-on facility tasks, including tidying rooms, moving furniture, organizing supplies, and resetting spaces.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Able to manage multiple responsibilities in a busy, student-centered environment.
• A warm, dependable, flexible, and collaborative approach.
• Comfort working with students, volunteers, vendors, university personnel, and Hillel staff.
• Knowledge of food safety practices and willingness to maintain required certifications.
• A driver’s license and access to transportation preferred.