INTERNAL/EXTERNAL

Job Title: Community Cook

Position Type: Bargaining Unit, Full-Time, Contract (Until January 2027)

Number of Positions: 1

Reason for Posting: Existing Vacancy

Rate: $29.40 per hour

Vacation: 7% Vacation Pay

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Supervisor: Senior Manager, Dunn Avenue Housing

Posting Date: September 2, 2026

Application Deadline: September 15, 2026

Location: 90 Dunn Avenue, Toronto, ON, M6K 2R8 and other Fred Victor Food Service locations as needed

Why Fred Victor?

For 130 years, Fred Victor has been a leader in helping people rebuild their lives in Toronto. Our mission is to improve the health, income and housing stability of people experiencing poverty and homelessness. We are committed to ending homelessness, one person at a time.

Fred Victor Centre is currently looking for an experienced and passionate Community Cook to lead our Dunn Avenue Housing Meal Program, serving meals each week for up to 51 people each meal. The ideal candidate is passionate about good food, committed to providing nutritious, delicious, ethically sourced, culturally inspired meals in a dignified way. This candidate is all about Community and being part of the Parkdale community.

The Community Cook understands the power of food and the many positive impacts on health and social wellbeing, as well as its limitations.

The Community

Cook celebrates diverse food traditions while possessing a critical analysis of food systems. The successful candidate has strong collaborative skills balanced with an ability to contribute to a supportive environment in the kitchen for a diverse team of staff, peers and community members that enables them to develop their culinary skills in an inclusive and welcoming atmosphere.

The Community

Cook will work within a budget and continue partnerships with food donors while creating an on-budget menu, while meeting the needs of the community.

Does this sound like work you want to be a part of?

We offer a caring and collaborative environment, an opportunity to join a diverse team of caring professionals and a chance to make a difference. With over 75 programs and 25 sites, there are lots of opportunities to grow your career with us. Many members of the management team started in relief and front-line roles.

What You Will Do:

- Planning and preparing nutritionally balanced meals
- Creating and supporting a pleasant, healthy, and efficient workplace




- Providing direction and assisting in meal preparation and able to follow instructions of supervisors
- Serving the residents during meal service, and providing conflict-resolution assistance to other staff as required
- Creating and following a meal plan that includes lunch and dinner each day. Ensuring enough food for each meal, including second helpings.
- Creating meals that follow Canada’s Food Guidelines, Toronto Public Health and Fred Victor policies.
- Ensuring all meals are prepared with consideration of unique dietary requirements, sensitivities, and the needs of residents.
- Ensuring all meals have vegetarian/vegan options and are nutritious and delicious.
- Ensuring that all storage areas are kept clean and tidy, including the equipment, fridge/freezer
- Maintaining a respectful working relationship with the Food Services team and program participants
- Problem solving and communicating problems and maintenance matters to the Property Services team, colleagues and Management.
- Attending meetings and trainings
- Providing polite, responsive, and welcoming customer service
- Providing leadership and direction to staff
- Prepare culturally relevant foods, foods for celebrations and holidays
- Adhere to budgetary constraints and plan accordingly
- Wash and sanitize dishes and all cookware
- Organize and store all items properly
- Complete inventory, ordering, serving and maintenance
- Date and label foods, discard expired food, prepare ingredients, prepare saved meals and bagged lunches.
- Thoroughly clean kitchen area, all appliances, underneath counters, shelving, sanitizing sinks
- Adhering and participating in the departmental standards of cleanliness
- Other duties as assigned by the Management team

What You Bring to the Team:

- 5 years’ experience with large scale food preparation within a skilled kitchen setting.
- Experience working in a Social Purpose Enterprise, peer training facility, community kitchen is an asset.
- Diploma or degree in a related field of study (culinary, nutrition, social work) an asset.




- Demonstrated ability to plan and prepare healthy, delicious, culturally diverse meals for 51 people daily.
- Experience with budgeting, sourcing food, and working with suppliers.
- Experience in diverse, low-income community setting an asset.

What Sets You Apart:

- Exceptional cooking and food handling knowledge and skills in a commercial kitchen.

- Knowledge of nutrition, food access and systemic food security issues.
- Patient and an ability to inspire and motivate others.
- Flexibility to work under pressure and with a diverse group of staff and peers.
- Ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders, including shelter programs and community members.
- Experience with community / social services sector through work or volunteer experience an asset.
- Team Player-ability to work with a diverse workplace.

Compensation and Benefits:

- For the Community Cook, Fred Victor offers an hourly rate of $29.40.
- 7% vacation pay
- Access to employee and family assistance plan.

How You Can Apply

Internal employees who are interested in this opportunity are encouraged to apply through ADP by navigating to Myself > Talent > Career Centre. Please note that we are currently soft-launching our new online hiring system through ADP. During this transition, not all job postings are available in the system yet. We appreciate your patience as we work through this transition.

As part of the application process, applicants are asked to upload their resume and a cover letter as one document describing their interest in joining the Fred Victor team.

A Police Record Check is required by the final candidate prior to hiring.

Accessibility & Accommodation

Fred Victor is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment where employees feel valued and respected, and where every employee has the opportunity to realize their potential. As such, we welcome and encourage applicants who identify as racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons across the spectrum of sexual orientation and gender identities and have lived-experience.

If you are a person with a disability and require accommodation and/or assistance during the application process, please contact us in advance. We strive to provide reasonable accommodations whenever requested. Information received relating to accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality.

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