SuperChefs: Nutrition and Wellness Special Needs Team Leader (Paid)

Your Role:

As a Nutrition and Wellness Special Needs Team Leader, you will be working with an experienced team to facilitate cooking, nutrition education, and physical activities with school-aged children. You will need to work amicably and collaboratively with your teammates and be a positive role model to program participants.

You will be guiding children 8-12 years of age through our cooking/nutrition/sports program, working with a limited number of children with intellectual and physical disabilities. The program can be adapted to allow participation of these children into our regular program, so it will be a fully integrated “Special SuperChefs” program. You will work alongside experienced SuperChefs team members, but an understanding and some experience working with children, especially those with disabilities is valuable.

In this role, you will:

• Acquire knowledge about the SuperChefs award-winning program to challenge childhood obesity
• Help the program participants to put on their best FACES: Food Literacy, Aware of our food systems, Competent in cooking skills, Engaged in physical activity and Savour balanced food choices
• Acquire knowledge and experience working with kids in a learning environment
• Develop understanding of how to develop an individualized approach to ensure successful child participation;
• Apply learned knowledge of the program to effectively facilitate activities like cooking and active games
• Demonstrate effective group engagement and management techniques;
• Demonstrate conflict management and clear communication skills;
• Demonstrate leadership skills.

Other benefits:

• Work experience with an award-winning Charity (reference letters available)
• Opportunity to work with a fun, diverse team of youth and staff and learn new skills
• Complete CPR and First Aid training
• Complete training in youth education and culinary skills
• Feel good about making a difference in the lives of children
• Obtain credit on your SFU Co-Curricular Record (CCR).

Students who have taken part in SuperChefs have moved on to education and careers in medicine, dietetics, nutrition, physiotherapy, education, business, dentistry, occupational therapy and more! SuperChefs is an organization interested in working with their Team Leaders over multiple years to build leadership capacity, and offer opportunities for training and networking with experts in the field who can help launch their future careers.

Program dates, times & locations:

• Late June to Mid-August
• Monday to Friday 
• From 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

The camps run from July to August at various schools in Surrey (exact locations to be confirmed).

In addition, camp counsellors need to be available one weekend during the summer for a community event and the last 2 weeks of June for training and orientation. 

Training:

Team Leaders must be available to go through an orientation/training before beginning their role. Training includes culinary procedures, youth education methods, and First Aid/CPR. A combination of online and in-person training will be delivered during the last 2 weeks of June.

Renumeration:

This is a full-time paid opportunity made possible through funding from the Canada Summer Jobs Grant. Team Leaders can expect to work between 30-40 hours per week at $15.65 per hour.

Requirements:

Applicants should have:

• Canadian Citizenship or Permanent Resident status
• Experience working with children 8-12 years of age 
• Great organizational skills
• Knowledge of basic food preparation
• Food Safe Certificate (or able to get the certificate before the camps start)
• Ability to work well with a team to coordinate programs and activities
• Understanding of food and nutrition and/or love of cooking
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Interest in sports and health is an asset

TO BEGIN YOUR APPLICATION:

If you are interested in this opportunity, please click the 'APPLY NOW' button below and submit your initial expression of interest. You will then receive an email from SurveyMonkey containing our application form which must be completed before the deadline below. 

Please note that if your SurveyMonkey application is successful, we will connect you with the team at SuperChefs, who will also ask you for your resume and cover letter for this position. 

Deadline to apply: Closed