Nutrition Services Manager

Current employees: Please apply through the employee portal to be considered for this opportunity.

Pay Range:

$68,375.73 - $102,564.31 Annual

Department:

Department of Community Justice (DCJ)

Job Type:

Regular Non-Represented

Exemption Status:

United States of America (Exempt)

Closing Date (Open Until Filled if No Date Specified):

April 27, 2025

The Opportunity:

OVERVIEW

• Are you looking for a dynamic opportunity to utilize your nutrition services management experience in a community service organization? 

• Do you have a passion for providing culturally diverse meals that make people happy? 

• Are you an advocate for at-risk youth and support food industry training programs for them? 

• Do you have experience with federal school meal program regulations?

• Are you in search of a role that allows you to use your leadership skills to foster a collaborative work environment and to develop and support employees?

If you answered “yes” to these questions, then keep reading to learn more about this unique opportunity with the Department of Community Justice!

Multnomah County's Department of Community Justice - Juvenile Services Division is seeking an energetic, adaptable and experienced leader to join our team as a Nutrition Services Manager (Nutrition Services Program Supervisor classification).

The Nutrition Services Manager oversees the operations of serving meals to youth and staff/customers in the following areas:

• Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Center

• Juvenile Justice Complex Courtyard Cafe

• Courtyard Cafe catering business

• Juvenile Services Division Culinary Arts Program.

This role is responsible for all staffing, scheduling, monitoring, purchasing, and budgets for all four of these operations.

Come Find Your Why? (video)

The Department of Community Justice is looking for a creative and experienced nutrition services manager who can demonstrate expertise in the following areas:

• Nutrition Services Management:  Experience with managing a nutrition services program that follows federal school meal program regulations and serves three meals per day and snacks, every day of the year.

• Cook/Chef Experience:  Experience with developing culturally specific menus, purchasing ingredients/supplies, budget management, leading/managing kitchen staff, meeting deadlines, customer service, and safe food handling procedures.

• Café/Catering Management: Experience managing operations of a café and catering business.

• Strategic Planning / Leadership: You will develop goals and direction based on the overall county/department mission and vision to increase community safety through positive change.

• Results Through People: You will help achieve results through the contribution of others by motivating and inspiring growth and productivity.

• Relationships and Community: You will build positive and sustainable relationships with a range of key internal and external stakeholders.

• Leading Cross-Culturally: You will foster an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the  vision,  mission,  and  goals  of  the organization.

• Team Building: You will develop, inspire, and foster employees to work collaboratively.

• Organizational Savviness: You will demonstrate understanding and good judgment of organizational culture and interpersonal relationships, with both internal and external groups, to identify opportunities of mutual interest and benefit.

• Delivery: You will ensure services are provided by quality processes through monitoring and understanding.

• Outcomes: You achieve quality outcomes for the individual, the organization, and the county.

• Personal Development: You will strive for