Temporary Director of Child Nutrition

Position Type:

Child Nutrition/Child Nutrition Manager

Date Posted:

5/12/2025

Location:

Crittenden Middle School

Date Available:

upon completion of hiring

Closing Date:

when filled

Compensation:

$193,127 - $237,522 (placement on the Management Salary Schedule is determined by the Superintendent)

Position Description

Mountain View Whisman School District has launched a comprehensive reform of our school meals program to provide our students with healthy delicious and nutritious breakfast, lunch, snacks and supper meals. Reporting to the CBO, the Director ensures the preparation, distribution and service of nutritious/delicious foods, food safety and adherence to applicable laws, standards and guidelines. Good food and the ability to make sound nutritional choices are critical to our students' intellectual and physical well-being. The Food and Nutrition program also provides valuable links to classroom learning around nutrition, agriculture and environment, Farm to Cafeteria initiatives to improve food quality, and community partnerships to promote student health.

• Directing and managing all Child Nutrition Department (CND) and related programs for the Mountain View Whisman School District.

• Ensuring that all operations and programs are in compliance with local, state and federal regulations and policies. Directs and manages the Child Nutrition budget and staff.

• Ensuring that all of the food served is of the highest quality possible and that the department runs in a fiscally responsible and highly functioning manner.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, an individual must possess any combination of experience and education that would insure being able to meet and fulfill job requirements; including Culinary Degree from a certified institution, Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Food and Nutrition, Institutional Management, Business Administration, or related field. Master's degree preferred, and extensive experience in the fields of food service system management at the executive level, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture.

• A minimum of five years’ leadership experience in a small to medium district (K-12 districts larger than 4000 and/or customer lunch meal count of 3000 daily) or food service management with an emphasis on a sustainable model that includes: menu planning, food procurement, staff training and supervision, and serving nutritious, tasty, and appealing from-scratch meals in a commercial or institutional environment, preferably to include experience with USDA Child Nutrition Standards and compliance.

• Knowledge of the procedures, policies, practices and methods of District-wide food service operation.

• Knowledge of local, State and Federal regulations regarding school food services nutritional standards, dietary guidelines and reporting requirements.

• Knowledge of facility designs, food and equipment specification, warehouse and central production facility operation, profit and loss analysis and procurement procedures.

• Ability to prepare and administer budgets and reports.

• Knowledge of all Federal, State health, sanitation and safety policies and guidelines as they relate to food service operations.

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills and ability to work with diverse community partnerships.

• Proficient in the knowledge and use of technical computer applications including Microsoft Office as well as POS and FOH and BOH food service or comparable software.

License and Certificates

• Possession of a valid Driver’s License

• Possession of a valid Food Handlers Certificate

Examples of Duties & Responsibilities

• Applies professional knowledge, ethics, and administrative skills in directing a comprehensive school food service program for the Mountain View Whisman School District in compliance with federal and state laws and regulations, local and state health ordinances, and Mountain View Whisman School District' policies.

• Employ exemplary leadership and communication skills in order to maintain healthy morale, resolution of operational issues and strong working relationships with CND, staff, students, purveyors, farmers, and teachers, as well as all of the stakeholders

• Oversee the implementation of the Farm-to-Cafeteria model by finding innovative ways to keep the school meal programs supplied with fresh, seasonal, organic, and/or sustainably grown produce and products, by building partnerships between the school district and regional agriculture.

• Evaluate and incorporate appropriate foods from USDA commodity program into weekly menu plan

• Develops and recommends changes to food service program policies and procedures.

• Serves as liaison with school administrators and the food service administrative staff in the management and operation of Food and Nutrition program

• Prepares and administers food service budget including revenue projections and control of expenditure in accordance with established financial management principles.

• Analyzes food service operations and financial statements and takes corrective action.

• Makes recommendations for facility design and layout for renovation and new food service facility construction projects.

• Applies principles of management and productivity in utilizing staffing formulas and establishing production standards.

• Knowledge of and ability to translate knowledge of sustainable food preparation, recipes and menus and utilize them in the ongoing implementation of the program.

• Directs the development of standards for the operation of quality food service programs.

• Directs the development of specifications for food, related supplies, and equipment.

• Responsible for the procurement and maintenance of all related capital equipment and fixed assets.

• Approves the procurement of products and supplies.

• Directs the development of staff training activities for food service personnel.

• Establishes procedures for the selection, assignment, transfer and discharge of food service employees in accordance with established policies. Hears and negotiates settlement of departmental employee grievance and complaints as appropriate.

• Directs the development of public information materials and media releases pertaining to school food service programs and meets with students, teachers, parents, vendors, employees, and community groups to market school food service programs.

• Ensure that recipes are strictly adhered to, and that foods served are of the highest nutritional quality

• Communicates the policies, procedures, goals and objectives of the CND.

• Manages assigned teams in the development, design, review, implementation and periodic reevaluation of project plans and strategies to support the achievement of the departmental goals and objectives.

• Performs and promotes all activities in compliance with equal employment and nondiscrimination policies; follows federal laws, state laws, school board policies and the professional standards.

• Provides appropriate supervision, mentoring, and professional growth and development opportunities to assigned staff. Such responsibility includes the development and implementation of professional growth plans to include keeping abreast of current developments, literature, and technical sources of information.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions

• Ability to work with frequent interruption and to simultaneously supervise a variety of tasks

• Ability to smell, taste and feel, in order to determine quality of raw and prepared food products

• Ability to read small print

• Ability to stand and walk for prolonged periods

• Ability to sit, stoop, kneel, bend and reach

• Dexterity of hands to grasp and manipulate large and small objects

• Ability to lift, push and/or pull objects up to 50 pounds

• Ability to work with, and in the proximity of, equipment with moving mechanical parts

• Ability to work indoors in a school kitchen and/or cafeteria environment. (Exposure to heat, steam, and extremely cold temperatures (walk-in freezer) for extended periods of time are typical.)

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee 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 continuously required to speak and listen for extended periods. The employee is also required to sit or stand for long periods, and to regularly walk; use hands or fingers to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee is further required to have the physical, mental, and emotional stamina to fully perform the duties and responsibilities of the position, and the mental acuity to collect, evaluate, and interpret data; to reason; to define problems; to establish facts; to draw valid conclusions; and to make effective judgments and decisions.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not exhaustive of the duties performed or that may be performed by this position.

Supervised by: Associate Superintendent or Designee

Evaluated by: Associate Superintendent or Designee

The Mountain View Whisman School District prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation and bullying in educational programs, activities, or employment on the basis of actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, parental, pregnancy, family or marital status, military status or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. The Mountain View Whisman School District requires that school personnel take immediate steps to intervene when safe to do so when he or she witnesses an act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying.

Questions or complaints of alleged discrimination, harassment, intimidation and bullying, equity or Title IX equity and compliance concerns should be directed to Tara Vikjord at, 1400 Montecito Ave, Mountain View, CA 94043, or .