SRO Assistant Food Service Director

Overview: Halstead Square, a DePaul Community Residence-Single Room Occupancy (CR-SRO) Program, is looking for a full-time Assistant Dietary Director to join our team!Responsibilities:

• Assists the Director with managing the SRO’s dietary department including the adherence to budgets, preparations of meals, ordering of food and inventory and supervision of staff.
• Assists the Director with all dietary personnel functions including recruitment, hiring, documented supervision, evaluations, disciplines and scheduling.
• Ensures that safety and sanitation practices and cleaning schedules within the department are followed by everyone.
• Responsible for the proper record keeping of inventories, storage, and utilization of food.
• Under the supervision of the Director, provides orientation to new dietary staff and helps to ensure that they receive all mandatory trainings.
• Provides input to the weekly menus and accepts resident input by taking into account resident preferences.
• Oversees the preparation of meals including the oversight of the dining room.
• Accommodates resident’s dietary needs whenever possible.
• Helps to ensure that all meals are healthy and nutritious, minimizing the use of processed foods.
• Responsible for approving time-off requests and minimizing the use of overtime when possible.
• Responsible to utilize government foods / Food Link / Food Bank whenever possible in an effort to help defray food costs.
• Attends all required staff and resident meetings.
• Respects and maintains resident confidentiality and demonstrates a caring, positive attitude toward all residents (as per respect policy), staff, family members, guests and service providers.
• Follows all safety rules and regulations for self, residents and staff.
• Wears attire that is appropriate for position.
• Performs any other duties necessary for the effective operation of the program.

Qualifications: Education / Experience:Associate’s degree in food service management or a High School Diploma with a minimum of two (2) years of experience in the food service industry, one of which should be in a supervisory or management capacity.

• In addition to the above criteria this position also requires a clean NYS driving record as outlined in DePaul’s personnel policy.