Culinary Vocational Instructor (Endorsement #098: Trade & Industrial Occupations)
Full Time
Bridgeport, CT
Posted
Job description
Looking for a full-time career in culinary education?
If so, we invite you to apply to this opportunity!
The State of Connecticut, Department of Correction (DOC) is looking to hire a Culinary Vocational Instructor at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield, with anticipated vacancies at all our facilities throughout Connecticut.
POSITION DETAILS
The goal of this program is to provide the skills needed in the culinary arts and hospitality industry to be successful. This course stresses safety and sanitation as well as tool and equipment usage. Through practice and discussion, students are taught skills in basic cooking methods, culinary techniques, weights, measures and recipe conversions. Participants earn a Safe Serve Certificate after passing a test administered by the National Restaurant Association. This program is an apprenticeship approved through the CT State Department of Labor.
DOC's Unified School District #1 is dedicated to providing quality educational programs for incarcerated individuals. Academic knowledge, vocational competencies and life skills integrated with technology are offered to students in a positive environment to foster lifelong learning, multicultural awareness and a successful transition to society.
Candidates hired will be expected to attend a fourteen (14) week Department of Correction Training Academy.
Locations: The current vacancy is located at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. These positions may be directed to any one of our facilities based on the candidates education Endorsement and department needs.
Locations: The current vacancy is located at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield. These positions may be directed to any one of our facilities based on the candidates education Endorsement and department needs.
Work Schedule: 35 hours per week, Monday through Friday, First shift
Perks of Job:
The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) is a diverse agency with a wide variety of employees from Correction Officers, to Educators, to Managers and Skilled Professionals. We value differences that make us stronger as a team and support our mission statement.
DOC is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The agency operates 13 correctional facilities. It has its headquarters in Wethersfield. The DOC protects public safety by ensuring offenders serve their sentences of imprisonments in facilities that are safe, human, and provide re-entry programming.
The Department of Correction is a unified system; all sentenced and un-sentenced offenders are supervised by the DOC. The Department also provides supervision for offenders on parole, community release, and other discretionary release programs.
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Perks of Job:
- A variety of medical and dental plans
- Participation in a hybrid retirement plan which provides a retirement benefit, that may include retiree health insurance.
- Option to maintain State of CT Teacher Retirement Plan or enroll in the State Employee Retirement System
- Sick and personal leave
- Five (5) weeks of scheduled vacation time
- We encourage a healthy work/life balance to all employees.
ABOUT US
DOC is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The agency operates 13 correctional facilities. It has its headquarters in Wethersfield. The DOC protects public safety by ensuring offenders serve their sentences of imprisonments in facilities that are safe, human, and provide re-entry programming.
The Department of Correction is a unified system; all sentenced and un-sentenced offenders are supervised by the DOC. The Department also provides supervision for offenders on parole, community release, and other discretionary release programs.
For an inside look at what it is like to Make an ImpaCT as a State of Connecticut employee, check out the video below!
Selection Plan
Before you apply, make note of the following:
- In order to be considered for this job opening, you must meet the Minimum Qualifications as listed on the job opening. You must specify your qualifications on your application.
- The minimum experience and training requirements must be met by the close date on the job opening, unless otherwise specified.
- Ensure that your application is complete and detailed before submitting it. In order to comply with Public Act 21-69, the State of Connecticut is no longer asking for resumes during the initial application process. You will not be able to make revisions once your application is submitted into the JobAps system.
- All application materials must be received by the recruiting agency by the time specified on the job opening for the position for which you are applying. Late applications may not be submitted and will not be considered. Exceptions are rare and limited to documented events that incapacitate a candidate during the entire duration of the job posting time period. It is the candidate’s obligation and responsibility to request an exception and provide a legally recognized justification to accommodate such exception. Requests should be made to DAS.SHRM@ct.gov.
- This posting may require completion of additional referral questions (RQs). You can access these RQs via an email that will be sent to you after the posting's closing date or by visiting your JobAps Personal Status Board (Certification Questionnaires section). Your responses to these RQs must be submitted by the questionnaire's expiration date. Please regularly check your email and JobAps Personal Status Board for notifications. Please check your SPAM and/or Junk folders on a daily basis in the event an email provider places auto-notification emails in a user's spam.
- Although applicants will receive correspondence via email, as a backup they are also encouraged to sign on to their Personal Status Board on a daily basis to monitor their status, view all emailed notices and complete tasks required in the recruitment process.
- Note: At any point during the recruitment process, applicants may be required to submit additional documentation which support their qualification(s) for this position. These documents may include: a cover letter, resume, performance reviews, attendance records, supervisory references, licensure, etc., at the discretion of the hiring agency.
- The immediate vacancy is listed above, however, applications to this recruitment may be used for future vacancies in this job class.
PURPOSE OF JOB CLASS (NATURE OF WORK)
In a Department of Correction School District vocational education section and the Department of Children and Families, Connecticut Juvenile Training School this class provides instruction and supervision in vocational and occupational subjects to a group of inmates and/or residents.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES
Plans and conducts a vocational program in accordance with curriculum established for vocational education developed under guidelines established by the State Department of Education-Division of Vocational Education; conducts classes and shop sessions in vocational and occupational subjects; corrects papers and tests; counsels inmates and/or students and gives individual instruction; maintains tools and equipment; attends staff and other professional meetings; prepares reports on inmates and/or students as required; performs all the security functions necessary to maintain safety of inmates and/or students, associates and other members of the institution populations; performs related duties as required.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY
Knowledge of educational principles, methods and techniques; skill in a particular trade or occupation; teaching ability; ability to work effectively with inmates and/or students; ability to express ideas simply and clearly, orally and in writing.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE
High School graduation or possession of a high school equivalency diploma and eight (8) years of employment and/or teaching experience in the subject field.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - SPECIAL EXPERIENCE
Incumbents in this class must meet the State Board of Education requirements to receive initial educator certificate to teach Vocational Education.
Note: *Payment for employees on the extended schedule will be determined by the appropriate contract
Note: *Payment for employees on the extended schedule will be determined by the appropriate contract
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to get the Endorsement: 098 Trade & Industrial Occupations - Comprehensive High School;
- Experience working in a leadership or training capacity;
- Experience working in an institution setting;
- Experience teaching or training a diverse group of people;
- Experience teaching or training groups of people with different levels of education;
- Experience working in the culinary, restaurant, or hospitality industry;
- Experience working in a commercial kitchen;
- Experience with the Serve Safe certification process.
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