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**TIMBERWOLF LAKE — CHEF II**:
**Lake City, MI**:
**Camping Commitment Statement**:
As a follower of Jesus Christ and a minister of His gospel, demonstrate a basic understanding of Young Life’s ministry strategy and participate in providing excellent camping experiences for individuals to encounter Jesus Christ and know the truth of God’s love for them.

**Mission & Authority**:
Through both formal training and direct experience, learn how to create, and then participate in, an environment where guests, staff, and volunteers are well cared for using the cornerstones of service, food, and systems. This is an entry level, hands on, training position.

**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 interns and volunteers 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.

**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 obtain ServeSafe Certification within 6 months unless already certified.

**Camp or Job-Specific Working Conditions**
- May be exposed to cleaning chemicals when training staff in the proper cleaning methods.
- May involve both administrative work as well as an active role in the kitchen.
- 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
- May be required to lift materials weighing 60 pounds waist high.
- 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