This position requires candidates to have a US work permit. Please do not apply if you are not legally able to work in the United States.
Applicants to this position must reside within a 90 mile radius of the property.
Position Description:
StarChefs is growing and is looking for a full-time features writer to join our team. This is not a free-lance position and is only available to someone available to work full-time physically in our New York office.
What we want:
A features writer responsible for coming up with ideas for seasonal, relevant features with a professional slant, and independently researching, writing, and publishing them in our food industry online magazine
What you'll be doing:
Writing, of course, and also researching, planning, and going on editorial trips a year that involve chef tastings, intelligent analysis of food, and interviewing professional chefs in US cities. These tastings are the heart of our Rising Star Chef Awards and generate the bulk of the editorial content for our magazine.
What you'll need to do it:
- Strong writing and editing skills and at least 1 year of experience in features writing. You'll be researching, writing, editing, and publishing features regularly.
- Strong food background; you will be editing recipes and therefore need experience in a professional kitchen or have attended culinary school. If you don't have actual culinary experience we will consider you for an internship only. We do regularly hire interns for full-time paid positions.
- Photography experience is useful; we take our own professional quality photos on tastings and in chefs' kitchens.
- Some experience with foreign languages is useful; you'll be communicating with international chefs most often French and Spanish-speaking, but also occasionally Italian and Japanese.
- Attention to detail, dedication and passion, the ability to work as a team player in a fast-paced, often hectic, environment, and a sense of humor to fit in with our young, casual, but very hardworking office.
- A willingness to travel and good organizational skills when planning trips with our editor-in-chief.
About us: StarChefs.com is a focused yet relaxed, non-corporate company with a high-energy office dynamic and a food-centric office culture. If you're they type of person who needs and "in-box" of paperwork and memos on your desk, this is not the position for you, but if your dream is to be on the forefront of the culinary scene working with chefs around the country, then we'd love to meet you!
DON'T just send us your resume. Check out our online magazine and tell us why you are the best candidate for the job. Please include salary requirements in cover letter. No applicant will be considered without a detailed cover letter.
Company Profile:
StarChefs.com', the magazine for culinary insiders, has been serving the restaurant industry since 1995. StarChefs.com's original culinary content is driven by in-person tastings and interviews across the world. Its mission is to catalyze culinary professionals' success and give them the tools they need to overcome their specific challenges. In addition to featuring top chefs, pastry chefs, sommeliers, and mixologists, StarChefs.com's Culinary JobFinder is the leading job board connecting culinary and hospitality professionals to careers in the foodservice industry. StarChefs.com features more than 30,000 published pages of original, chef-focused culinary content and generates traffic of over 30 million hits a month and was nominated for Best Web Site for Food and Nutrition by the James Beard Foundation. StarChefs also offers hospitality companies powerful marketing opportunities such as market research, campaign development, site advertising, product sampling through event sponsorship, lead generation, and contextually relevant sponsorship placements.
In addition to featuring top chefs, pastry chefs, sommeliers, and mixologists, the StarChefs.com JobFinder is the leading job board connecting culinary and hospitality professionals to careers in the foodservice industry. StarChefs produces 5 events per year including the International Chefs Congress (www.starchefs.com/icc) and its young chef awards, The Rising Stars Revue (www.starchefs.com/risingstars) and has published its first book StarChefs.com Chefs to Know (www.starchefs.com/chefs-to-know).
StarChefs has doubled its revenues in the last 5 years. We are growing our staff and are looking for exceptional talent to join our team.
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