Barry Conservation Camp Food Service Coordinator

Food Service Coordinator

This position oversees the entire food service operations for camp, including menu planning, ordering of food and supplies, inventory, storage, preparation, record keeping, documentation, staff training, supervision, and evaluation, clean-up and year-end reporting. This position also serves as part of Camp Administration team.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Serve as primary liaison with food supplied company. Includes ordering food, checking all food orders and invoices upon receipt, maintaining inventories, storing all foods appropriately, adhering to budget, meetings with food company representatives, submitting invoices to UNH 4-H Camps office in Durham.
• Ability to adhere to safe food handling, preparation, serving, storage, and cleaning standards and maintain operations records as required by state health codes, American Camping Association, Summer Food Service Program and Surplus Commodities. Work with Camp Director and food service staff to maintain standards of operations and required documentation.
• Assist Camp Director and Camp Administrator with menu planning prior to camp and submit menu to UNH-CE nutrition staff for review and recommendation. Includes preparation of vegetarian dishes for each meal. Adapt menu throughout the summer as program, special events, special diets etc., require. Submit at end of summer actual menu (versus planned menu) served.
• Oversee the preparation of all meals, ensuring that all meals are served on time and at proper temperatures. Includes working as cook and assisting or working as needed in any food service job, minimizing food leftovers and waste, proper dishwashing, dining hall clean-up and trash removal.
• The Food Service Coordinator must be present for the preparation, serving, and clean-up for all meals each day. Exceptions to this requirement must be approved in advance by the Camp Director and Camp Administrator.
• Supervise, schedule, and evaluate all kitchen personnel and coordinate their duties. Includes assisting with staff recruitment, hiring, training, and ensuring all staffs maintain good health and personal cleanliness.
• Document refrigeration, freezer, and dishwasher temperatures daily. Notify Camp Director and/or maintenance and facilitate repair if function of appliances is sub-standard.
• Assist during staff training, educating camp staff about camp food service program, meal routines, and counselor expectations. Includes reporting to Camp Director any concerns, questions and/or problems with staff during the summer and helping solve problems in a positive and productive manner.
• Oversee seasonal opening and closing of the kitchen dining hall, includes storage of all kitchen equipment and supplies.
• Coordinate daily and weekly cleaning of kitchen and dining hall.
• Submit end of season written evaluation of food service program, final menu served, SFSP records, final inventory, final commodity inventory, and recommendation and needs list for next season.
• Maintain open communication with Camp Director, and working as a team to solve any problems (staff, menu, leftovers, cleaning, etc.) as they relate to camp food service program.
• Assisting with any additional duties as required by Camp Director and/or Camps Administrator.
• Adhere to policies of UNH, UNH Cooperative Extension, and UNH 4-H Camps, as outlined in staff manual and orientation.

Minimum Acceptable Education & Experience:

• 3-5 years previous food service experience or equivalent education, preferably preparing food for groups of 50 or more
• Staff supervisory experience

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge of the nutritional needs of children, and ability to practically apply them
• Ability to adjust to a residential camp setting
• High level of responsibility, integrity, organization, judgment, dependability, flexibility, character, sense of humor and initiative

Other Requirements:

• 21 years or older
• Excellent health and personal hygiene

Compensation Pay Range: $5000

Please be advised that this position is supported by external sponsor funding. As such, continued employment in this role is contingent upon the availability of those external funds. If, for any reason, the sponsor funding is reduced or discontinued, employment may be subject to modification or termination in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.

The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire's lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry.

EEO Statement

The University System of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access employer. The University System is committed to creating an environment that values and supports diversity and inclusiveness across our campus communities and encourages applications from qualified individuals who will help us achieve this mission. The University System prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or marital status.