Cooking Matters Volunteer Culinary Instructor

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If you're interested in this position, please click here to complete our online application .

Cooking Matters is a national 6-week, hands-on nutrition and cooking educational series developed by Share Our Strength. It is offered through the Capital Area Food Bank to limited resource participants around the DC Metropolitan Area. Classes are taught by a team of volunteer nutrition instructors, culinary instructors and class assistants and cover basic nutrition, cooking meal planning, and shopping. The CAFB Healthy Eating Department is looking for volunteers passionate about engaging and encouraging participatns to choose healthier foods for a healthier lifestyle.

Basic Function:

• Teach low-income individuals at risk of hunger how to select, purchase, and prepare healthy low-cost food.

Primary Duties:

• Teach the cooking lesson components of a 6-week cooking & nutrition education class series to a group of 12-16 paticipatns, using the lesson plans and recipes for each class provided by established curricula.
• Break down recipe steps into simple, do-able tasks so that each class participant can be involved in food prep/cooking at a cooking station
• Work in partnership with a volunteer nutition to lead the class
• Highlight and supplement culinary information with your own culinary/nutition/health knowledge and experience.

So if you are interested with

• Working with low-income individuals with diverse backgrounds
• Professional training or experience in the culinary industry (at least 1-2 years prefered)
• Experience with culinary education or teaching, interest in working with low-income individuals
• Excellednt communication or public speaking skills
• The ability to travel to the different class locations

We want you to volutneer with us as a CAFB Cooking Matters Culinary Instructor.