Reports to: Executive Director
Capacity: Full-time
Compensation: Salaried $72,000 annually
Job Summary: Oversee all aspects of a four-season camp and conference center’s food service department, offering youth programs, adult retreats, weddings, and other group events.
Key Responsibilities
- Develops menus and meal plans for all groups, including adult and youth retreats and programs, as well as weddings.
- Develop menus to support all standard dietary and allergy requests, including vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free, for all meals and groups.
- Oversee, manage, and deliver meals in the dining hall and occasionally at other designated locations.
- Recruit, train, and manage all kitchen staff.
- Ensure county health department food service requirements are followed at all times.
- Order, maintain, and rotate all necessary stock for the food program.
- Ensure kitchen supplies and equipment are kept clean and in an orderly fashion.
- Ensure the Dining Hall is kept in a clean, safe, and in an orderly fashion.
- Ensure that respect for the backgrounds and needs of all participants and staff is integrated into the food services experience.
- Maintain a positive role model attitude.
- Attend all staff meetings, trainings, and other camp functions as required by the Executive Director.
- Maintain open lines of communication with participants, staff, and supervisor.
- Perform other duties as assigned, including supporting Maintenance and Housekeeping departments.
Skills and Qualifications
- Great customer service with vendors and guests.
- Good teamwork, leadership, and respect for staff.
- Reliable, self-motivated, and has a high energy level.
- Criminal clearance, including fingerprinting.
- Complete all required online training.
- Ability to connect with people of diverse backgrounds.
- Uses clear and concise verbal communication with staff and guests.
- Maintains appearance and hygiene. Must follow Camp and Legal dress code expectations.
- Has the ability to complete job duties and any other duties as necessary with speed and accuracy.
- Acts in a manner consistent with Pilgrim Pines Camp's mission, which includes anti-racism and pro-LGBTQ+.
Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:
- Must be at least 21 years of age.
- High School diploma, or GED.
- Hospitality or kitchen experience preferred.
- Must have or obtain a current food handler’s card and other certification as required by federal/state/local law.
Preferred Experience:
- 5+ years of experience working in food service, working in a commercial kitchen setting preferred
- Supervisory experience
Working Conditions:
Environmental Factors: Indoor and outdoor facilities (e.g. kitchen and recreational sites); exposure to heat, cold, potentially hazardous chemicals, toxic materials; work on slippery or uneven surfaces. Noise level us usually moderate.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, talk, hear, stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift, push, pull, and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Core Competencies:
Committed to a positive working relationship with the Executive Director, managers, other staff, and all camp users; takes initiative but also checks in with supervisor about suggestions, new ideas, and concerns; acts as a team player.
Genuinely welcomes and greets all persons interested in the Camp, in person or on the phone, with a positive, warm presence. Offers help and encouragement to guests. Is clear about how to address questions when an answer is unknown in the moment.
Prioritizes work assignments with an ongoing and updated task list; meets deadlines; learns and applies Camp policies and procedures, prioritizing safety and health policies; is able to multitask; is able to be interrupted while working and respond positively to new or unexpected situations.
Uses diplomacy and tact in all relationships; keeps appropriate boundaries of confidentiality in communicating information about other staff and all camp users; shares frustrations and concerns only with the Executive Director, Manager, or Board; acts with integrity and trustworthiness as a public representative of the Camp.
Facilitates open, clear communication about the Camp's (facility/kitchen/etc) needs between staff, the Executive Director, and the Board; promptly follows up on tasks and updates all affected parties.
About the Camp
Pilgrim Pines is located in the unincorporated village of Oak Glen, ten miles from the I-10 freeway. The elevation is approximately 5200 feet— located just about a mile high! The village of Oak Glen is an unincorporated area of San Bernardino County, located in an orchard country renowned for its apples and berries. Neighbors of Pilgrim Pines include farmers, shops and restaurants, and the Wildlands Conservancy. There is a long-time relationship with the Conservancy that includes overnight visits by campers each summer. The camp includes cabins and lodges, a pool, a labyrinth, Vesper Point, a campfire circle, a field, hiking trails, and a challenge course. It sits in a canyon with Oak Glen Creek flowing through and is filled with oaks and pines. The camp property was originally purchased in 1943 from a school for the deaf, and the first summer camp session for the conference was held in June 1944. Within five years, additional adjacent lots were purchased, and then a series of new buildings, lodges, and cabins were constructed in the 1950s and 1960s. The most recent construction occurred in the 1990s, but recent donations have enabled us to renovate the Health Lodge, add ADA accessibility features, and ramps. These donations have also established a large fund restricted for capital improvements. This fund will enable significant repair and upgrade projects at our facility over the next several years, in addition to establishing a long-term endowment to support the ongoing repair and maintenance of our facilities and grounds.
Note
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by persons authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to their own health, safety, or the health or safety of others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.
OUR MISSION & VISION
Pilgrim Pines Camp and Conference Center, a ministry of the United Church of Christ, affirms persons of all ages, sexes, genders, gender expressions, sexual orientations, racial or ethnic backgrounds, socio-economic positions, intellectual, developmental, emotional, and physical abilities, or religious affiliation.
We seek to:
- Provide an inclusive and safe environment for personal and spiritual growth and to be accepting of a diverse population of opinions, beliefs, ideas, and backgrounds.
- Nurture the community by building personal relationships.
- Encourage care and concern for all of God’s creation and encourage a sustainable world through modeling environmentally just practices.
- To seek to create a peaceful and healing community in which people learn to cooperate in an inclusive and diverse setting.
Pay: $72,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Food provided
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Paid training
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
