Future Chefs (futurechefs.net) prepare Boston high school students to complete high school ready for quality employment and post-secondary education. With a focus on positive youth development, Future Chefs provides authentic work-based learning in a kitchen setting to prepare teens with the basic cooking skills needed to enter the culinary industry and most importantly the job readiness and essential skills to succeed in any field.
Future Chefs believe that every young person is unique and flourishes in respectful, safe, stimulating settings that provide opportunities for growth, and relationships with caring, supportive adults who honor students lived experiences. Future Chefs occupies 5,770 square feet of meeting, kitchen, and office space on the first floor of The Clarion in Roxbury. Our youth-centered programming also includes community-based collaborations that directly and indirectly support our mission. Future Chefs is a fiscally sponsored organization of Third Sector New England, Inc. (tsne.org).
You are an enthusiastic, experienced culinary professional with a desire to share your broad culinary knowledge and passion for cooking in a community-based, after-school, and out-of-school setting. You bring creativity, technical expertise, and vision to menu development, catering, and event production, with the ability to deliver high-quality food at scale while designing menus that are engaging, culturally responsive, and aligned with program goals. You take pride in producing excellent food that reflects professionalism, safety, and sanitation standards, and you hold yourself and others accountable to the highest level of kitchen operations.
You are equally comfortable teaching in the kitchen with youth and supporting adult staff to deliver curriculum with excellence. You want to develop the leadership and culinary knowledge of participants and adult staff. You are a passionate lifelong learner, highly organized, and committed to leading and upholding a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and welcoming culinary setting.
You understand that Future Chefs is not a traditional kitchen environment. You are excited to help shape an alternative kitchen culture—one that centers youth, values essential life and leadership skills, and intentionally contrasts with some of the industry’s norms. You believe teamwork, communication, initiative, and respect are as important as culinary technique, and you see your role as developing not just skilled cooks, but future leaders.
You are a direct and respectful communicator who seeks to develop and uphold the systems needed to support a safe, professional, productive, and welcoming working environment. You do not waste resources and work to maintain and teach the highest standards in the kitchen. You embrace excellence as you strive to instill it in others. All the work in the kitchen with our young people serves the programming goals at Future Chefs. You are a willing collaborator in achieving those goals, exude positivity, and model a healthy lifestyle.
The Senior Culinary Manager (SCM) is the lead culinary professional at Future Chefs, responsible for ensuring the quality and impact of all culinary programming. This role combines hands-on teaching with youth, coaching and supporting culinary staff, and collaborating with the program team on youth-led culinary enterprises and events.
The Senior Culinary Manager supervises the Culinary Team, serving as a mentor, sounding board, and resource for program delivery. While not responsible for overall event management, the SCM ensures that all youth-led and community-facing events meet high culinary standards and reflect Future Chefs’ quality expectations. The primary focus remains curriculum delivery, youth engagement, kitchen operations, and staff development, with accountability for the culinary excellence of all programming.
Essential Job Functions
Physical Demands/Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those for this position. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. Work is performed in an office environment and in close proximity to other workers.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to:
Compensation and Benefits
Location: Work will be primarily performed onsite; 305 Roxbury, MA 02120.
Schedule: Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours per week; availability to work after school hours, summers, and occasional weekends.
Compensation: The starting salary range for this position is $70,000 - $75,000 annually, dependent on experience and internal equity within Future Chefs. The full salary range possible within the role in the future is $70,000 - $78,000 annually, dependent on experience and performance.
Benefits: This position is eligible for a full benefits package including:
TSNE/FC strives to achieve excellence through a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment that embraces all of our individual and collective differences. Black, Indigenous, People of Color, Middle Eastern and North African, Bilingual and/or Bicultural candidates, and LGBTQ2SIA+ candidates are encouraged to apply. We value and honor the unique talents, learning styles, and lived experiences of each individual that enrich and strengthen our workplace culture, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
All employment conditions are based on an individual’s performance and job qualifications. TSNE/FC prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, creed, color, religion, native language, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, parental status, pregnancy, race-based hairstyles, or any other protected characteristic stated by federal and state law. Regardless of any class’ protection under the law or lack thereof, TSNE/FC celebrates diversity and values the strengths that come with having a diverse team of employees. It is represented in our workplace culture, and it is who we are.
TSNE/FC's EEO statement extends to volunteers, interns, contractors, vendors, and clients.
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