Job Alert | Culinary Production Manager - $70k to $75k/year
Job Title: Culinary Production Manager
FLSA Status: Full-time, Exempt
Reports to: Food Hub Director
Work Location: Requires regular travel to various indoor and outdoor worksites throughout DC
Supervisory Responsibilities: None
Dreaming Out Loud’s mission is to create economic opportunities for the DC metro region’s marginalized community members through building a healthy, equitable food system. Dreaming Out Loud is rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
D.R.E.A.M. ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Dreaming Out Loud’s Ready for Entrepreneurship Accelerator Modules (D.R.E.A.M.) Entrepreneurship Program is a cohort program that provides a multi-session curriculum and end-to-end support to low-income and socially disadvantaged food entrepreneurs.
The Culinary Production Manager will work with the Food Hub Director and senior organizational leaders to nurture and grow the ecosystem of support that provides the program graduates (DREAMERS) with access to the human, financial, and social capital needed to create economic opportunity for themselves and their communities.
CULINARY PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The DREAM Culinary Program was created, in part, to become the extension of the DREAM Entrepreneurship Program in seeking, refining and matching DREAM Entrepreneurship culinary talent to income-producing opportunities for our DREAMERS who successfully meet the requirements of our program. DOL continuously vets' community partners for culinary opportunities in catering, pop-ups, corporate, community outreach, etc., for providing varied income streams for our DREAMERS.
The DREAM Culinary Program is also tasked with supporting DOL’s Ecosystem in creating value-added products for distribution via DOL’s Food Hub, and other retail and wholesale markets. This involves new product development, scaling, production, manufacturing, testing, packaging, etc.