S13180P

Dining Commons Manager - Jekyll Island 4-H Center

CAES-Jekyll Island

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External

TRS or ORP

Employee

Benefits Eligible

Full Time

Schedule may vary based on the needs of the center.

Commensurate with Experience

02/03/2025

Yes

02/17/2025

Camp Jekyll

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Retail Operations Professional

Exempt

1.00

Requires at least a baccalaureate degree in the field. Please contact your Human Resources office for an evaluation of education/experience in lieu of the required minimum qualifications.

This is a highly responsible position at Camp Jekyll, on Jekyll Island GA providing direction and leadership to a staff of up to 5 employees and additional temp employees preparing, serving, and cleaning up after providing meal service to customers. The dining hall serves as many as 256 people at a time. The individual in this position will be responsible for all aspects of dining hall operation while meeting or exceeding all health code standards. This position will also utilize a P-card.
http://www.jekyll4h.org/

• Ability and desire to provide food service for large groups of people.
• Ability to work within a budget.
• Ability to plan healthy and kid friendly meals
• Ability to effectively supervise employees.
• Ability to communicate with a diverse client base: young children to adult.
• Ability to work without direct supervision.

• Extended long hours in a hot commercial kitchen including standing, preparing, serving, and cleaning up after meals.
• Moving large cases of canned goods, etc. weighing as much as 40 lbs.
• Sitting for periods of time while working at a computer.
• Driving as needed to perform job duties.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

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Yes

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Lead employees as a participant in all aspects of food service including preparation, cooking, serving, and cleaning up.

30

Provide effective supervision of dining hall staff in safe food handling, proper preparation, cooking, and serving of food.

25

Develop and manage healthy menu items that are good tasting and cost effective. Provide same level of food service for those guests that have diet restrictions.

15

Inventory, order, check-in, review, stock, and maintain food supplies using a purchasing card as needed.

15

Interview, hire, and train dining hall workers. Provide effective supervision and performance evaluations to employees providing food service to customers. Provide effective and appropriate training to seasonal staff members on how best to provide support to kitchen staff when doing KP (kitchen patrol) or other dining hall support work.

10

Communicate with administrative staff to prepare proper amounts of food and effective customer service in all dining hall operations. Other duties as assigned such as facility upkeep, clerical work and other related tasks. Will attend annual Georgia 4-H State Staff Advance Training.

5

For questions concerning this position or recruitment progression, please refer to the Recruitment Contact listed below.

Richard Chewning II

richrich@uga.edu