Culinary Arts Specialist
Eden Village Camp
Description
Position Overview:
Bring your food values deliciously to life as the Culinary Arts Specialist at Eden Village! You’ll work with the abundance of our farm and orchard to teach farm-to-table cooking skills and inspire young people to have autonomy over what they eat and where their food comes from. Get creative with fresh goat milk from our goats, eggs from our chickens and an abundance of farm fresh veggies, inspiring deep gratitude for the land and communities that feed us. Guide campers in learning everything from knife skills and kitchen safety to how to make fresh pasta, pickles, bread, ice cream, fermented foods, canned goodies and so much more!
Eden Village camp is a non-profit overnight camp rooted in the Jewish vision of creating a more environmentally sustainable, socially just, and spiritually connected world. We’re dedicated to providing campers with an incredible summer experience while empowering them to promote a vibrant future for themselves, their communities, and the planet. Learn more here!
Expectations:
● Teach 3-4 programs every day for campers ages 8-16.
● Prepare lessons for campers age 8-16 on farm to table cooking. You are coming into years of pre-written lesson plans with the ability to tinker and personalize.
● Keep the Farmers Kitchen clean and organized. All cooking spaces need to meet health department cleanliness standards.
● Able to manage camper allergies and food restrictions safely and responsibly.
● Ideally, you can help draw connections between being Jewish and farm to table cooking…but we can help with that.
● Flexible and able to go with the flow as challenges arise
● Community-minded with an emphasis on intentional Jewish community experience
● Excited to work with kids
All staff at Eden Village, regardless of their job, should expect to support the running of camp in a variety of ways that are not outlined here. As a community working collectively to keep 200 children safe and happy, each summer is full of unexpected blessings and challenges. We rely on our staff member’s flexibility to meet those challenges.
Why you’ll love it!
● Experience deep community with a vibrant staff of 120 young people from all over the world! Our community values skills sharing, spiritual growth, and inclusivity.
● You’ll enjoy three kosher, organic, locally sourced meals a day.
● We have a secret little room just for staff snack…and a not-so-secret not-so-little FARM full of fresh off the vine snacks! We’re munching on cherry tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, cucumbers, peaches, cherries, carrots, and so much more all summer long.
● You get to hang out with goats!
● We have staff fun activities in the evenings and staff-only swim a few times a week.
● You’ll inspire kids to be more playful, kind, caring, joyful, and grateful – changing their lives and changing the world!
Important Things to Know About Working at Eden Village:
● We are a pluralistic community, and we expect all staff to be able to live and work with kindness and respect with people from different backgrounds, political ideologies, religious and gender identities, etc, than themselves.
● Our food is amazing! We eat mostly vegetarian food at Eden Village. We serve meat once per week and fish twice per week. Staff are not permitted to bring takeout or outside food into camp.
● All staff receive at least 2.5 hours off per day.
● All staff receive days off. Specialist educators receive a 40-hour day off 6 times during the 8 weeks of camp. All other staff receive one 25-hour day off per week.
● All staff are responsible for their travel to and from camp (unless you are coming with an international agency that books your travel for you). We are not able to host staff on site before or after your contracted start and end date.
● We hire staff from Israel, North America, South America, Europe, and all over the world.
● There is no smoking or vaping allowed on site.
● All staff must be back in their bunks by midnight every night.