Essential Duties
Spiritual Formation: Intentionally provide opportunities for staff to grow deeper in their relationship with Jesus.
- Participate in opportunities for growing deeper in your relationship with Jesus.
- With direction from supervisor, develop an annual personal spiritual growth plan.
- Foster and engage in a culture where the spiritual formation of Food Service volunteers is both a priority and responsibility for all members of the ice department.
Attentive Hospitality: Equip servant leaders who anticipate and respond to the needs of our guests, staff and vendors through Christ-like service.
- Demonstrate a posture of service that anticipates guest needs and responds with professionalism through intentional decisions and systems.
- Support the Food Service Manager in directing the planning, developing and evaluation of the menu development according to the Young Life Food Service standards.
- Recognize and prepare for guest needs/requests in order to partner with our groups; meeting their needs and developing an environment where guests are heard.
Interpersonal Relationships: Help build relationships that reflect the character of God with guests, staff, vendors and neighbors to foster healthy community.
- Build relationships that reflect the character of God with guests, staff, vendors and neighbors to foster healthy community.
- Recognize the importance of their interpersonal relationships with guests, staff, vendors and neighbors and promote a healthy community.
- Support interdepartmental staff relationships by fostering partnerships throughout the property.
Comprehensive Stewardship: Manage with integrity the finances, people, buildings and equipment that have been entrusted to our ministry.
- Manage with integrity the finances, people, buildings and equipment that have been entrusted to our ministry through Food Services.
- Develop and equip staff to participate in comprehensive stewardship of the Food Services Department.
- Support systems for inventory control over food, equipment and other budgeted items.
- Participate and possibly lead the Food Services team in food cost tracking procedures and awareness of food costs impact on camp fees and property budget.
- Foster an environment where volunteers feel valued both as contributors and as people.
- Support and engage in the hiring of quality candidates for intern positions.
Talent Development: Through a consistent and accountable evaluation process, we identify and provide opportunities for staff in continuing education, leadership development, career-pathing and cross-training.
- Demonstrate a desire to grow through engagement in the Individual Development Plan process and participation in training and development opportunities.
- Intentionally pursue opportunities for personal growth and development.
- Participate in training of volunteers, work crew, summer staff, and camp staff with vision towards creating a pipeline for the mission.
Embracing Excellence: Standing on the platform of national standards and metrics we gladly prepare an environment that glorifies Jesus Christ.
- Help lead department staff and participate in the execution of daily responsibilities with attention to the standards and metrics required for excellent camp operations.
- Demonstrate a commitment to uphold the Young Life Food Service Standards found in the Food Service Manual.
Training Expectations
- Must become ServeSafe certified within 6 months unless already certified.
Camp or Job-Specific Working Condition s
- May be required to lift materials weighing 60 pounds waist high.
- May be exposed to cleaning chemicals when following proper cleaning methods.
- This role lives in, and is responsible for all aspects of typical food production: cleaning, fixing and troubleshooting equipment, prep work, shift leadership, cooking meals and other tasks normal to a food service environment. This consumes 95% of time and seasonally will require 100% of available hours.
- We prepare an environment to experience life change through Christ. Our hope is that every guest and staff who comes to Timber Wolf Lake would have an encounter with Jesus Christ. This is accomplished by providing an encouraging work environment, excellent service and a non-verbal presentation of the Gospel. As a foundation to excellence, we are passionate about hiring and leading followers of Christ that are committed to share their faith through their work, with each other and with our guests. We recognize that a spirit of humility grounded in Christ is a distinguishing factor of this Holy Ground and we are committed to remind each other of this truth daily.
- The Timber Wolf Food Service team is passionate about creating a culture that shows Christ to everyone we interact with in ways that they can understand. Here is the clarity of vision for our department:
- Grace Runs: We are a people who aggressively give out grace to our guests, each other, and ourselves.
- Love Hustles: We are a people who diligently put in work to demonstrate the extravagance of God's love.
- Joy Persuades: We are a people who live so deeply rooted in joy that others are persuaded to join in on kingdom living.
- Kindness Welcomes: We are a people entrenched in kindness that makes the Mill feel like a place we've always been trying to find.
- Timber Wolf Lake is nested in the heart of Lake City Michigan. Northern Michigan is the land of all four seasons. In a family-like community, our staff share great friendships with each other and with our Young Life field friends. All Timber Wolf staff live in the towns surrounding camp as there is no camp housing available. There are several churches in the surrounding areas to attend with friends and family.
Note: This description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the principal job elements essential for making compensation decisions.
Qualifications
Education
- One year of college completed and/or one year professional culinary training preferred.
Qualifications And Experience Required For The Job
- Work experience in the food service industry preferred
- Experience in training and leading teams preferred
- Demonstrate understanding of Young Life ministry, strategy and mission
- Experience in organizing and prioritizing tasks
- Experience in managing the administrative aspects of the Food Service department.
- Demonstrate professionalism in written and verbal communication with guests, vendors and staff
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage (at no cost to you).
- Paid vacation and sick leave.
- 401(k) matching plan (up to four percent).
- Health club benefit.
- And more !
Notes
Young Life is a relational ministry. Staff must be able to convey a sense of Christ-like hospitality and concern for guests and staff. Responding to the unexpected needs of a guest in a prompt and professional manner is important. All staff members are expected to represent Young Life positively and professionally within the community and be able to work with and minister to the volunteer high school and college-age young people who attend our camp.
How To Apply
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Questions Please contact Hannah Duran
