Child Montessori Cooking School Instructor

Little Kitchen Academy is the leading Montessori-inspired cooking academy for children and teens. We are focused on providing a safe, inspiring, and empowering space for children to identify, develop and refine their senses. With joy, mindfulness and learning as a base, we are creating a foundation for a healthy lifestyle.

We are looking for kind, passionate instructors who love working with children, who live a healthy lifestyle, and who have a keen interest in the kitchen.

We offer flexible hours with morning, afternoon, evening and weekend shifts available. Work 4 to 20 hours per week depending on your availability.

What will you be doing?

• Guiding children through their class as a Lead, Support or Environment Instructor.
• Welcoming, preparing and teaching up to 10 children per class by going through that day’s recipe from scratch to consumption.
• Demonstrating practical life skills and proper kitchen tool usage while fostering conversations around ingredients and equipment, offering choices, suggestions and observations as they work.
• Helping students discover and identify where things are located and encouraging and supporting practice of skills , allowing for as much time as needed.
• Maintaining a clean, safe and organized environment, washing dishes, laundry and putting away supplies.

What will be expected of you?

• You have prior experience working with children.
• You are kind, caring and patient.
• You have a passion for living a healthy lifestyle.
• You are able to stand for extended periods of time.
• You are available to work evenings, weekends and holidays if required.

All LKA Instructors must have current food handling certification (FoodSafe), criminal record check, and First Aid/CPR/AED Training prior to starting.

Learn more about us at https://littlekitchenacademy.com/

Submit your resume and details of your experience working with children, your kitchen experience (if any) and why you feel this would be an ideal job for you to lka31@littlekitchenacademy.com.

Job Types: Part-time, Casual

Pay: $18.00-$22.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• On-site parking

Application question(s):

• Do you have valid Food Safe or equivalent certification?
• Do you have valid CPR/AED (Specific to Children)?

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2025-07-15
Expected start date: 2025-09-14