Area Director

Job Title: Area Director

SFC Seattle Eastside LLC dba Sticky Fingers Cooking® of Seattle is looking to hire a part-time Area

Director to help us Cultivate COOLinary Curiosity in Kids®!

Are you ready to TURNIP the BEET on what KIDS EAT®?

Are you looking for a fun, full-time job?

Do you love the magical combination of children and cooking?

ABOUT STICKY FINGERS COOKING

Sticky Fingers Cooking® (SFC) is a cooking school for children that teaches after-school enrichment

classes and summer camps in hundreds of locations across the country. We love sharing our passion for

cooking through our fun, hands-on, and deliciously healthy cooking classes and camps. We strive to

inspire and celebrate comprehensive education directly related to the essential role of real healthy

food, cooking, and nutrition in our everyday lives.

The Area Director is a key player in the oversight of the day to day program operations at Sticky Fingers

Cooking®. They are responsible for the overall success of the territory by setting targets, assisting with

the supervision of staff and ensuring the high quality standards of our program are met. Excellent abilities

in operations and planning are essential to the role.

This role is integral to the core of Sticky Fingers Cooking® as the Area Director maintains all

communication with the venues in which we work. The Area Director must cultivate new and maintain

existing relationships with venues such as schools, Parks & Rec Departments, Libraries, Summer Camps

and more.

The Area Director's primary tasks involve consistent communication with both the Director of Chef

Operations, who directly communicates with the Chef Instructors, as well as with parents and venue

contacts. Additionally, this position is responsible for venue retainment, which includes but is not limited

to; consistent, positive engagement, proactively anticipating needs as well as when a concern arises to

resolve it with excellent customer service.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Oversee program operations and day-to-day leadership

Cultivate and maintain new and existing relationships with venues who host our after school

enrichment classes, camps, Birthday Parties and Silver Spatulas sessions

Schedule classes with venues, create and distribute promotional materials, manage facility

rentals, invoicing, insurance, contracts and manage enrollment of students

Maintain session finances through the Sticky Fingers Cooking Dash as well as update and edit

session information and venue details

Monitor sales and work toward meeting monthly, quarterly and annual sales goals

Work closely with the Director of Chef Operations to ensure teams success

Communicate with team members, venue contacts and customers

Marketing

Sales/Outreach

CRM (Customer Relationship Management)

Ensuring consistent high quality programming across your territory

Resolve problems by providing creative and practical solutions

Ensure compliance with company's policies and operational guidelines

Investigate and correct issues and complaints

QUALIFICATIONS

Highly effective, positive and enthusiastic verbal and written communication skills in English

Team player with a flexible, positive, and creative approach to problem solving

Extremely detail-oriented and organized knowledge of Google and Excel spreadsheets is a must!

Self-directed, independent work ethic

Experience managing a team and strength in coaching and empowering team members

Proficiency with Google Workplace and comfortable learning new technology and software

systems

Passion for children and cooking; teaching experience strongly preferred but not required

A knowledge of the SFC territory and area schools is preferred