Nutrition Assistant or Culinary Artist for The Writer's House

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We love healthy, organic, and varied children's meals – can you work wonders with ingredients and create magic?

Forfatterhuset is seeking a nutrition assistant or an experienced culinary artist who can help run our fantastic central kitchen with professional pride. The position is 30 hours per week and the daily working hours vary within the range 07:00-16:00 Monday to Friday.

We can offer

• 170 children to feed, where meals play an important and central role
• a job where you have great influence on your own daily life with varied tasks, and where there is room for new thinking
• colleagues who are passionate about healthy, organic food and environmental sustainability
• a large and fully modern kitchen
• sparring and idea development in the cluster's kitchen network.

We expect that you

• have a creative sense for detail and value aesthetics and quality in the food
• let yourself be inspired by the pedagogical themes in the house, so that they are sometimes reflected in the menu
• have a desire to help look after our small kitchen gardens and like the idea of from soil to table
• want to be part of a work community that both contains the close kitchen team and the larger across-disciplinary community in the house
• have nutrition and dietary knowledge for children aged 0-6 years
• can work with a minimum of 90% organic.

You will share responsibility for

• management and planning of all tasks in the kitchen, including daily production, dishwashing, cleaning, and stock replenishment
• menu planning (please send a proposed weekly menu with your application)
• purchasing and budgeting
• self-inspection and risk analysis
• to comply with applicable guidelines within production kitchens and food legislation
• to focus on organic and food waste
• to help develop the kitchen team, which consists of three employees in total, each 30 hours per week.

Terms of employment

The position is 30 hours per week. The position is available from December 1, 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary and employment terms according to the applicable collective agreement and within the framework of local pay setting. In connection with the employment we will obtain a child and criminal record check and take references.

Would you like to know more?

You are welcome to contact Heidi Blæhr Anthonsen at 24 66 41 68 if you would like to hear more about the position.

Together with your application please attach your CV and any educational certificates.

Apply via the link no later than Sunday 15 November 2026

We expect to conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.