Manager, Food Services and Community-Use
Position Summary
The District Manager, Food Services and Community-Use provides district-level leadership for the continued development and oversight of Feeding Futures, related school food service initiatives, and community use/rental operations.
The role strengthens the administrative, operational, financial, and technology-enabled framework supporting two complementary district functions: student-focused food programming and responsible community access to school facilities. The position is both operational and developmental, with responsibility for current service delivery and the systems needed for long-term sustainability.
Responsibilities
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Build a more coordinated, accountable, and sustainable district food services model.
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Support schools through clearer processes, standards, communication, and operational guidance.
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Strengthen budget stewardship, purchasing discipline, and expenditure visibility.
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Coordinate vendors, food service partners, rental partners, and community organizations.
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Improve rental agreement processes, scheduling visibility, site coordination, and revenue tracking.
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Use dashboards, portals, forms, calendars, and reporting tools to reduce manual administration.
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Identify efficiencies, cost savings, and responsible revenue opportunities.
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Lay the groundwork for future centralization, including a potential centralized kitchen and hub-and-spoke food service model.
1. Food Services and Feeding Futures Leadership
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Lead the continued development of the Feeding Futures operating model.
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Translate review findings into practical implementation steps and operating priorities.
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Support consistent district-wide practices for food service delivery, ordering, school support, and quality assurance.
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Guide menu and service approaches that support nutrition, student acceptance, cost control, and operational scalability.
2. Budget Stewardship, Cost Control, and Revenue Visibility
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Oversee food service budget tracking, expenditure visibility, cost controls, and purchasing governance.
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Support the shift from reactive school-level purchasing to planned district-level food service operations.
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Track rental activity, usage trends, cost-recovery considerations, and revenue opportunities.
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Provide reporting that connects spending, service levels, participation, rental activity, and financial impact.
3. Community Use, Venue Rentals, and Rental Agreements
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Support or manage rental agreements between schools, the district, and external organizations.
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Coordinate rental inquiries, approvals, scheduling, documentation, invoicing inputs, cancellations, and follow-up.
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Work with schools, Facilities, Finance, and other departments to confirm availability, access, custodial needs, equipment/fixture requirements, room setup, and site-specific conditions.
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Ensure community use processes align with district policy, insurance requirements, school priorities, and risk-management expectations.
4. Policy, Standards, and Stakeholder Management
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Develop procedures, templates, checklists, communication tools, and school-facing guidance.
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Manage relationships with vendors, suppliers, community partners, rental organizations, and internal stakeholders.
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Clarify service expectations, accountability measures, issue-resolution pathways, and partner responsibilities.
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Reduce administrative burden on schools while maintaining district consistency, fairness, and accountability.
5. Systems, Technology, and Reporting
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Support dashboards, portals, forms, calendars, records, and workflows that improve visibility and coordination.
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Use approved district tools such as Microsoft Forms, SharePoint, Excel, Power BI, Power Pages, Dataverse, or similar systems.
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Improve reporting on school needs, program usage, spending trends, rental activity, revenue, service gaps, and operational performance.
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Create technology-supported processes that make the work easier to manage, easier to audit, and easier for schools to use.
6. Long-Range Planning and Asset Utilization
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Contribute to planning for equipment, infrastructure, kitchen capacity, service expansion, and future centralization.
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Support development of a hub-and-spoke food service model as the program matures.
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Improve visibility into how district spaces are used by external organizations.
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Identify responsible opportunities to increase revenue while protecting student programming, school priorities, and district policy requirements.
Required Skills and Experience-
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and 7 years of progressive experience in a related field, or an equivalent combination of related education and experience.
- Food service, hospitality, kitchen, school meal, or meal program experience, with practical understanding of workflow, food handling, menu planning, and safe service delivery.
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Operational leadership experience in a service-based, multi-site, or developing program environment.
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Budgeting, expenditure monitoring, cost control, purchasing, cost recovery, or revenue reporting experience.
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Demonstrated ability to manage vendors, community partners, rental organizations, school administrators, district departments, and other stakeholders.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills, with public-sector awareness, sound judgment, confidentiality, fairness, and service orientation.
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Comfort with digital tools, dashboards, portals, forms, workflow systems, calendars, reporting tools, and practical technology-enabled process improvement.
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Demonstrated ability to build structure in a developing environment, identify process gaps, implement solutions, and support change across schools and departments.
