Culinary Instructor

Job Summary:
Kids at Work, an early childhood center, is seeking a cooking teacher/chef with early childhood experience OR an early childhood teacher with a lot of passion for and experience in the kitchen. These cooking classes are for children aged 2-5 who are accompanied by a caregiver or parent 1:1. Lesson plans are already created but our teacher is always welcome to be creative with their own ideas!

Hours/Location:

Chelsea/flatiron location. These classes take place on Tues and Thurs afternoons from approx 2:30-5:30 and Friday mornings from approx 10am-12pm. There is additional time needed for planning and shopping for ingredients. This position starts asap and the class times/work schedule cannot be changed.

Duties:
- Revise and develop cooking curriculum, which is already created but needs to be tweaked for each class depending on season, availability of ingredients, number of children in class, etc.

-Ensure all materials, equipment (on site), and ingredients are organized and on site well ahead of class time. Communicate with management about what might be needed for online purchase well ahead of class time.

-Creating shopping lists and shopping for items (reimbursed and paid, can be "off hours"). There is a Whole Foods and Trader Joe's very close to the facility.

-Prep and implement cooking class along with an experienced assistant.

-Clean heavily between and after classes along with your assistant.

-Maintain a fun, engaging, and close relationship with students and their adults. They come for the class but also for you!

Experience:
- You must know your way around a kitchen and have a lot of experience baking, cooking, and working with recipes that are more complex than you'd think!

-The recipes include a lot of math since each child creates their own portion. You must be able to convert recipes into shopping lists without purchasing way too much or too little. Experience with or ability to work with recipes in this way is a MUST. Recipes have lesson plans with measurements, but sometimes need to be tweaked.

-Experience working with children aged 2-5 years old.

We are a small, tight-knit team and our teachers are long term. We are very excited to hear from you! You can read more about Kids at Work at We strongly recommend not only sending a resume, but a quick message about your experience and why you think you'd be a good fit will push your application to the top of our pile. Good luck with your search!