Manager-Food Services Southwest

About the role

The Boulder Valley School District is seeking an experienced District Manager to oversee multiple school kitchens and staff. This role oversees operations, procurement, and inventory at designated sites while ensuring site compliance with federal, state, and district regulations.

Responsibilities

• Understand and communicate the BVSD Food Services Program philosophy and inform FS staff and school community of the District Wellness Policy, meals, food sources, recipes and overall Food Services program goals on a daily basis.
• Ensure the highly quality of delicious/nutritious food that is fiscally viable.
• Educate students, parents and the larger community on the “real” whole foods that the Department Serves.
• Plan, supervise and coordinate and manage daily Food Service operations to ensure compliance with federal, state and district regulations and policies including, but not limited to, HACCP, Serve Safe, safety and sanitation.
• Under the guidance of the director, implement departmental plans, programs, processes, procedures and policies required to achieve overall departmental performance results, including procuring and implementing grant programs.
• Assist in coordinating and integrating departmental functions and responsibilities to achieve optimal efficiency and effectiveness while monitoring performance against the annual departmental budget.
• Analyze food service operation for cost effectiveness and efficiency consistent with FS Department Program, evaluate alternatives and develop sound recommendations for improvement.
• Career Development: Review applications, interview and recommend candidates for hire. Assess training needs; plan and implement staff training and development programs. Evaluate direct reports according to negotiated agreement.
• Ensure adherence of FS program to application processes and meal accountability records for the National School Lunch Program, as mandated by the State of Colorado.
• Utilize sustainable whole foods systems to manage procurement, receiving, storage and transportation of food and supplies for the program.
• Cooking: Coordinate and maintain FS Department Time Clock Management and Payroll System, coordinating with office and site staff to ensure compliance to budgeted FTE. Assign subs as needed.
• Customer Relations: Support, understand and enforce Board of Education policies and procedures and labor contract provisions. Foster district commitment to excellence and equity by ensuring that employees and students are valued, respected and provided a positive work/learning environment. Ensure positive relations with internal and external customers, including students, staff, school administration, parents, and community members.
• Operations: Coordinate and implement all reports as needed for the most efficient and effective operations of the Department. A sampling of such are: food cost, POS, payroll, inventory, budgets, procurement and waste management.
• Outside Events: Perform other duties as assigned, including overseeing operations of all outside events such as catering, food truck, vending, food tastings, Rainbow Days, chef demos and Iron Chef Competitions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of four years of college or equivalent advanced training to qualify for a Bachelor's degree with a major pertinent to the position requirements: Culinary, Nutrition, Food Service.
• Minimum of five years experience in Food Service Management.
• Communicate (read, write, and speak) in English.
• Completed and submitted BVSD online application.
• Must have a valid Colorado Driver's License.
• One Source; must acquire within 2 months ServSafe Certificate; must acquire within probationary period.

Salary

Salary Range 6: $85,675 - $128,514

Salary Placement varies according to experience and education.

All salaries are set by Human Resources based on a review of qualifications compared to the requirements on the job description; therefore listing all related education and experience on your application is recommended.

Benefits & Eligibility

Boulder Valley School District is proud to offer eligible employees excellent benefits which may include:

• Free high-quality Health and Dental Coverage
• Vision Coverage
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Personalized Benefits
• Identity Theft Protection
• Flexible Spending Plans
• Retail Savings Plans
• EcoPass

Please see our Benefits Page for information on the benefits we offer and eligibility information.