Executive Director - The Culinary Education Center

Background

The Culinary Education Center (CEC) in New York is looking for an Executive Director. Along with the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will be responsible for creating and guiding the organization by helping to develop its mission, strategic goals, and all operational structures. The Executive Director will also be responsible for developing programming and for stewarding external relationships.

The Culinary Education Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and labor-management partnership between high-wage food service employers and UNITE HERE Local 100, the union for food service and restaurant workers in the New York/New Jersey area. As a Taft-Hartley Fund, this training center was created to train and upskill food service workers, enabling them to enter good union jobs in the industry and advance in their careers. Our curriculum, designed in collaboration with employers, will support employer efforts to create career pathways, thereby contributing to worker retention. Most of the people we will serve are people of color/immigrants and members of marginalized communities. Our objective is to 1.) train new workers and help place them in good union jobs with employer partners and 2.) provide ongoing training