Your role

As Chef-in-Training Program Ambassador, you will be working directly with the Americorps VISTA Program and Event Manager to expand and execute the Chef-in-Training (CIT) program to help underserved Bay Area youth turn their lives around as they work in local restaurants training to become chefs. You will be working right alongside the Program and Event Manager on key logistics of Sprouts’ CIT Program. Your role will be to help organize online campaigns to raise money for these internships, writing grants to support the program, supporting youth through personal advising and in-restaurant check-ins, and visiting community partners to raise awareness of our program. You will play a key part of fostering strong relationships with Sprouts network of funders and securing support in our community. Overall, learning the behind-the-scenes of working in a fast-growing nonprofit.

Your position

As CIT Ambassador, you will have a direct impact in the lives of over 20 young adults; you will be personally helping at-risk and underserved youth change their lives around by setting them on a path of structure and guidance. During their internships, you will get to see their progress firsthand and be able to realize the effects and value of your work. You will help support the Program and Event Manager to share their stories with the community, the team, and our Board of Advisors, including Alice Waters and Jamie Oliver. It’s not everyday that you get to work with real chefs in real restaurants, helping underserved youth make huge changes to their lives and get on the right track.

Your professional growth

Your professional growth is of the utmost importance! Our Program and Event Manager, along with the rest of our team, will work closely with you on your professional growth, helping you draft specific goals and a timeline of action items to achieve your professional objectives. We will have you working directly with some of the sharpest talent in the Bay Area as you collaborate with top chefs in the area and foster strong relationships with restaurants. You’ll forge personal relationships with an array of nonprofit directors, sponsors, and foundations such as Kaiser, Salesforce and Wells Fargo. You will also develop leadership and project management skills as you work with Sprouts global director and the management team to spearhead fundraising campaigns and programs.

As a small nonprofit, you will also have very steep potential for growth on the team. Many team members have started with Sprouts and received promotions. There is a strong opportunity to be hired on and promoted after your position has finished.

You will learn about various business models, accounting rules, and nonprofit regulations as you participate and voice opinions during our team meetings. As a small nonprofit with little hierarchy, your voice will be heard and your opinion will be sought after! You will see first-hand, the many moving variables of a thriving and evolving structure. You’ll learn the basics of business and accounting, expansion, and marketing strategy as you sit in on team meetings.

Sample projects include:

-Work with popular chefs and restaurants – expanding our outreach of restaurant partners, facilitating in-restaurant check ins with interns and mentor chefs

-Work with Americorps Filmmaker and volunteer photographer to organize media resources used to share the CIT intern’s culinary journeys with the community

-Plan and implement CIT program marketing strategy to raise awareness of the program within the community by sharing intern’s progress

-Complete a grant to secure funding for program expansion

Chef-in-Training Program Overview:

After partnering with Jamie Oliver and his team in 2012, Sprouts founded the Chef-in-Training Internship Program in the San Francisco Bay-Area. The Chef-in-training internship was directly modeled after his London-based Apprenticeship Program, Fifteen. Sprouts offers youth in underserved communities a chance to fuel their passion to become a chef through this culinary vocational training. It provides youth the skills needed to secure stable jobs in the food industry. This internship targets disadvantaged Bay Area youth between the ages of 16 – 24, providing them with a paid opportunity to gain real-time, real-life culinary job training. Interns 16 hours in their host restaurant every week, and their training is both reinforced and monitored with weekly check-ins led by a Sprouts’ advisor and their mentor chef so that each intern reaches his or her fullest potential. Not only do they work directly with their Sprouts’ chef mentor throughout the entire internship, but the Sprouts team and chef mentors also facilitate the interns’ job placement post-graduation.

An Overview of our CIT program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M08u1jzci58&t=4s

A CIT Success Story: Adrian Aguilar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEpLwx9hAlY&t=6s

Chef-in-training Video Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLkAO94OWYs (Has won international awards!)

Your team:

As CIT Ambassador, you will be working directly with Bay Area chefs and restaurants to structure and expand the Chef-in-Training program. You will be working alongside a team of 12 full-and-part-time team members, several interns, and 25 volunteers working to realize Sprouts’ mission. On top of this you will be working with the 10-20 CIT interns whose lives you are directly impacting.

Your office:

We are based in an office space in West Oakland, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with Sprouts’ fast-growing and dynamic team. You’ll also be heading to restaurants and other community organizations to promote Sprouts Chef-in-Training program.

Work hours: Monday through Friday 9 to 5

Sprouts office space in West Oakland

**Friday is a Remote work day**

Restaurant sites and community organization in San Francisco and East Bay

Commitments and Contract Period:

Flexible start date, 8 month posting, 20 hr/week minimum

Compensation and Benefits

-Volunteer position

-Transportation stipend offered to assist with commute to the office and off-site visits

How To Apply

 
We can’t wait to review your application! Please send the following to sprouts@sproutscookingclub.org:

• • • Resume
    • Letter of intent
    • Please confirm if you have a driver`s license and/or car
    • Please indicate where you live in the Bay Area, or if you will be relocating for the position!

Job Posting:

Don’t miss this internship opportunity to work directly with the Founder and Executive Director of Sprouts Cooking Club as you gain inimitable first-hand experience working within a successful culinary nonprofit. Throughout your internship, you will have countless opportunities to meet influential players within in the culinary world including chefs, restaurateurs, and community members.

Your role:

This internship will allow you to work alongside the founder of Sprouts, and have a direct hand in creating community-focused programs. While you will support Sprouts founder, and also have the opportunity to interact with team members, board members, and core partners. Your efforts will directly support our mission of providing inspiring culinary experiences to children of all backgrounds. You will also have the opportunity to see Sprouts mission in action by assisting one of our cooking classes, where you will work closely with the kids. Through this impact service you will realize Sprouts’ mission to get kids cooking and empower them to make better decisions for their health. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be involved in a program that is really making a difference in our community.

Your professional growth:

This position will provide valuable experience working closely with the founder of a successful nonprofit. You will learn about various business models, accounting rules, and nonprofit regulations as you participate and voice opinions during our team meetings. As a small nonprofit with little hierarchy, your voice will be heard and your opinion will be sought after! You will see first-hand, the many moving variables of a thriving and evolving structure. You will learn the basics of business and accounting, expansion and marketing strategy as you sit in on team meetings.

Sample Tasks:

-Helping founder organize dinner benefit featuring a line-up of award-winning, SF Chefs

-Helping organize cultivation cocktails and events

-Creating donor outreach systems

-Organizing team socials

-Helping founder update a budget projection

-Behind-the-scenes organizing of program documents

-Structural brainstorming pertaining to team and programming

-Direct impact service (i.e. help with in-school classes or packing ingredient bags)

-Helping founder brainstorm improvements for programming processes

-Keeping event planning spreadsheets updated

-Tasks catered to the skills set and professional goals of the intern

*We want you to have a valuable experience and are happy to cater to your own goals and objectives. Please let us know in your cover letter what skills you would like to develop and grow so we can tailor the internship to meet your needs!

Your team:

You will be working with our growing team of 16 full and part-time team members, several interns, and over 25 volunteers. You will also have the opportunity to be a part of our team and learn from each team member’s experience.

Locations & Hours:

We are based in West Oakland, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with Sprouts’ fast-growing and dynamic team. You have the option to join us in the office or work remotely. The office space is a wealth of interesting people, community-forward individuals and entrepreneurs.

Work hours: Monday through Friday 9 to 5, Remote Wednesdays

Office space in Downtown Oakland

Schedule: We can work with your schedule! Rare weekend events

Flexibility with remote days

Skills and Requirements:

Strong organizational skills, high aptitude, familiarity and comfort with technology (especially different social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), strong interpersonal skills, interest in community, children, chefs, nutrition, and cooking. Leadership skills. Must have reliable access to a computer.

Commitments and Contract Period:

-20-30 hours/week

Compensation and Benefits:

$17/ hr to start with 6-month promotion check-in and optional increase to full-time

You will gain valuable knowledge of the inner workings of a successful nonprofit

You will forge inimitable contacts with influential community members

You will directly serve the community

How to apply:

We can’t wait to review your application! Please send the following to our Recruitment Manager at sprouts@sproutscookingclub.org:
Resume
Cover letter that explains why your skill set, interests/goals, and past experiences are pertinent to the position

Job Posting:

Help us share Sprouts’ work and our mission of providing inspiring youth cooking classes, as our Social Media Intern! You will gain inimitable first-hand experience working within a successful culinary nonprofit, while honing in on your communication and outreach skills. Throughout your internship, you will have countless opportunities to meet impressive people in the culinary world including chefs, restaurateurs, and community members, develop your own ideas, and help execute Sprouts’ special mission of getting kids from all backgrounds the opportunity to cook and eat healthy, balanced meals!

Your role:

This internship will allow you to work with our dynamic team, developing and executing our social media content, all while gaining first-hand experience in a growing non-profit! This position can be performed remotely or at our office in West Oakland. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be involved in a program that is really making a difference in our community.

This position will expose you to the inner workings of a fast-growing nonprofit including programming, finances, partnership development and many more. Sprouts wants you to have a meaningful experience, and we are happy to cater to your own goals and personal growth!

Your professional growth:

This position will provide valuable experience working within a successful nonprofit. You will learn about various business models, accounting rules, and nonprofit regulations as you participate and voice opinions during our team meetings. As a small nonprofit with little hierarchy, your voice will be heard and your opinion will be sought after! You will see first-hand, the many moving variables of a thriving and evolving structure. You will learn the basics of business and accounting, expansion and marketing strategy as you sit in on team meetings.

Sample Tasks:

– Creating content for and posting on our website blog

– Updating our social media accounts with new information and photos (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram)

– Using Sprouts event templates to create event flyers for our website

– Posting eventbrite tabs to our website

– Answering questions from our Facebook page

– Updating Sprouts website postings

– Uploading media, articles, and videos into Sprouts website

– Creating mailchimp ads

– Uploading profiles of our chef in training interns

*We want you to have a valuable experience and are happy to cater to your own goals and objectives. Please let us know in your cover letter what skills you would like to develop and grow so we can tailor the internship to meet your needs!

Your team:

As the Social Media Intern you will be working with our growing team of 16 full and part-time team members, several interns, and over 25 volunteers. You will also be working with our professional marketing team and consultants, and have the opportunity to be a part of our team and learn from each team member’s experience.

Your office:

We are based in West Oakland, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with Sprouts’ fast-growing and dynamic team. You have the option to join us in the office or work remotely. The office space is a wealth of interesting people, community-forward individuals and entrepreneurs.

Work hours: Monday through Friday 9 to 5

Office space in Downtown Oakland

**Wednesday and Friday Remote work days**

Skills and Requirements:

Strong organizational skills, high aptitude, familiarity and comfort with technology (especially different social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), strong interpersonal skills, interest in community, children, chefs, nutrition, and cooking. Leadership skills. Must have reliable access to a computer.

Commitments and Contract Period:

– Minimum of 10-15 hours/week with flexible availability

– Length of internship is 9 months

Compensation and Benefits:

You will gain valuable knowledge of the inner workings of a successful nonprofit, all while serving the community with your contribution to Sprouts. This position is unpaid.

As the Summer Marketing Intern, you will never be bored! You will learn and master the art of creating Facebook and Google ad campaigns, run Hootsuite, and design a 12-month marketing plan for the organization. You will be get to work directly with our Marketing Team as well as Sprouts founder as you create and diffuse marketing content around Sprouts celebrity chef partners, restaurants, and sponsors. You will even have the opportunity to work with photography video to add to your generated content. By the end of the internship, you will be an expert in marketing strategy and technique, and will have forged relationships with chefs, community movers and shakers, and business owners all across the Bay. Most importantly, your voice will be heard, and you will have constant opportunities to learn about and contribute to our global growth strategy.

This internship is hands-on and action packed! Your days at the office will be switched up with visits to our cooking camps, and marketing appointments with chefs. You’ll even have the opportunity to give a stab at website updates and design. Throughout the summer, you will also have the opportunity to work on a community newsletter, highlighting the successes of each program. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to help tell the story of a nonprofit that is truly making a difference in the community. This position has strong potential for a paid position after the internship.

Personal & Professional Growth

We believe that everyone has something to contribute! We will work with you individually to make sure that your skill set is highlighted throughout the summer and your goals for personal and professional growth are met. Everyone has something to offer, and your opinion will be heard. Whether your sub-interests are in business, cooking, community impact, nutrition, leadership, or youth – we will develop tasks and roles within our marketing internship that will highlight that. Let us help you brainstorm the best ways to maximize your summer with us! At the end of the summer, a full-time position on the team will be up for discussion.

Sample Tasks

• • • Help execute Sprouts’ summer marketing plan incorporating social media, chef profile highlights, Mailchimp campaigns, facebook ads, informational videos, and cooking videos
    • Draft a 12-month global marketing plan with the help of marketing team members
    • Execute website updates
    • Write up newsletter updates highlighting Sprouts’ achievements
    • Review and improve our current advertisement action plans for our various programs: fundraisers, weekend classes, after school cooking program, Chef-in-Training program, classes for Girls Inc and youth with special needs
      
    • Create and post content weekly on Sprouts’ blog
    • Reach out to national and local magazines, blogs, and publications
    • Review and improve our current communication strategy to share new videos
    • Strengthen our Youtube presence
    • Write and post blogs featuring our partner chefs and restaurants

Your Team

In this position you will be able to work with an array of Bay Area restaurant chefs, local farmers, and mission-focused partner nonprofits including Girls Inc. You will be working alongside a team of 15 full and part-time team members, 10+ chef instructors, several motivated interns, and 50+ active community volunteers working to realize Sprouts’ mission.

Locations and Hours

Work hours: Monday through Friday 9 to 5, Remote Wednesdays (excluding summer months)

Sunny Office Loft in West Oakland

Restaurants and venues in San Francisco, Oakland and beyond

Skills and Requirements

Strong organizational and problem solving skills, high aptitude, familiarity and comfort with technology, friendly professionalism, interest in community, children, chefs, nutrition, and cooking.

Commitments and Contract Period:

Full Time
40 hours per week
9-5 p.m, Monday-Friday
May 25th -August 30th (end date is flexible, depending on fall commitment)

Compensation and Perks:

• • • $2,000 for the summer

 Office Perks:

• • • Complimentary healthy snacks, fruit and vegetables, baked goods, coffee and teas (Gotta keep our staff well-fed and happy! (; )
    • Full kitchen for preparing or cooking up lunch. We’re a culinary nonprofit, after all!
    • We work from a beautiful, sunny office loft in West Oakland featuring a tree-filled courtyard and a view of City Slicker Farms. We are just a skip away from the Mandela Park running path, cafes (Kilovolt  is our favorite!) and restaurants like Oakland’s renowned Brown Sugar Kitchen.  Plus – our favorite taco truck is just a block away!

How To Apply

 
We can’t wait to review your application! Please send the following to our Recruitment and Volunteer Manager at sprouts@sproutscookingclub.org:

• • • Resume
    • Cover letter that explains why your skill set, interests/goals, and past experiences are pertinent to the position