Innovative Culinary Genius - Kitchen Manager

  Honduras

Cofradia

Dates: Inquire for specific dates

Description: We are searching for a special person who can take our functioning school kitchen and turn it into something really special. We are interested in talking to anyone who thinks they might be able to help "Joey's Cafe" reach it's full potential while continuing to supply almost 300 children with a nutritious lunch every day. You will be working with our local staff, you need to both lead and teach mostly by example. You may also be asked to help organize cooking classes and demonstrations for interested students and possibly some of the parents as well.

Some Spanish would be an advantage however a little sign language and careful demonstration with the occasional translation by one of our students or a bilingual staff member should be quite sufficient until you pick-up the basic Spanish (and you will learn Spanish since you will be using it every day).

Highlights:
* Having hundreds of children race each other to see what you have for them today.
* Seeing the eyes light up when a young boy realizes he just managed to teach his mom a new recipe.
* Having an entire community talk about the dinner you organized.
* Realizing you just invented a new multi-cultural dish.

Qualifications: We are looking for someone to organize and manage our school cafeteria kitchen who understands and appreciates the significance of the terms; additive-free, organic, natural, wholesome and nutritious when a applied to the preparation of food.
* Can you really cook?
* Can you organize a Kitchen?
* Can you lead and teach others by example?
* Are you a talented culinary innovator with high levels of both patience and imagination?
* Can you organize and manage a school kitchen?
* Could you imagine yourself making a soup kitchen more efficient or organizing a multicultural gourmet event for 300 invitees?
* Would you like to invent the peanut butter and banana burrito or a pineapple upside down tamale?
* How about mango strudel or coconut corndogs?
* Does the thought of feeding hot nutritious lunches to 300 children fill you with enthusiasm?
* Do you think you might be able to fix something for a "special event" dinner if we gave you a freezer full dressed duck, a truckload of ripe mangoes, 50lbs of rice, 100 lbs of freshly picked ripe pinapples, an unlimited quantity of bananas and an hour in a good supermarket with a small budget?
* How about the thought of creating delicious lunches from "free range" eggs, rice, beans and huge quantities of both eatable leaves and flowers picked from our garden.

Cost in US$: ticket to Honduras only

Salary / Pay: Accommodation will be supplied and an additional stipend is a possibility for the right person.

Experience Required: yes

Experience in a kitchen would be considered a definite prerequisite.

This Program is open to World Wide Participants.

Participants Travel to Honduras Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Phone Interview
• Resume
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Alumni Network

Cofradia's Bilingual School's Mission Statement: Finding ways to make quality education a self sustaining enterprise in order to be able to offer poor children in developing countries a real opportunity to learn their own way out of poverty. We offer a Global Education to over 300 children and an incredible learning adventure to our annual team of International volunteer teachers. We bring a multi-cultural group of teachers together in a concentrated and mutual effort to help children some of the worlds least fortunate children, learn the skills that may help them make the difficult changes that will need to be made if they are to live in a world where equal opportunity and social justice are any more than slogans on political campaign posters.

Year Founded: 1997