K-5th Teaching Kitchen Instructor (Spanish Bilingual)

Location: Emeril Culinary Garden & Teaching Kitchen at Starlight Elementary Watsonville, CA (Santa Cruz County).

Full-time, year-round, 40 hours per week, with occasional weekends and evenings for school, community, and Life Lab events.

Our Teaching Kitchen Instructor is a dedicated culinary educator who is passionate about teaching nutrition, cooking, and literacy to elementary-age children. This is a full-time, year-round position responsible for teaching hands-on, culinary classes during the school day, after school and summer school programs to grades Tk-5th. In addition to teaching, the Kitchen Instructor supports classes by procuring produce, caretaking the Culinary classroom, and developing supportive instructional materials. Instruction takes place in a dedicated, state of the art culinary teaching classroom on the Starlight Elementary School campus adjacent to the Starlight Culinary Garden and Orchard. 

Compensation: $57,000 annual salary ($58,000 for Spanish bilingual) with generous benefits.

For a full job description and information on how to apply, please visit https://www.lifelab.org/jobs.