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Cooking Team Leader - Chef

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The experience

Looking for a team leader for the Cooking Team. This is paid position on top of accommodation, food and an amazing place to live with all commodities included.
This Chef will have a great impact on the overall experience of the other volunteers, community members and guests.
This person can grow on the job, contributing with her talent, cooking creativity, organisational and social skills.

What you offer

32 hours of help per week

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

Additional fee required

Amount: € 50 One time

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers and Donation to project

Description: Volunteers pay 50 Euro that include a membership fee for the NGO and a personal accident insurance. This makes their stay legal and properly covered by a valid insurance.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English

Between 24 and 50 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

European Union Passport

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We offer an amazing place very well located, with delicious vegetarian lunch and ingredients for a nutritional simple breakfast, accommodation and a community life. In exchange, we are looking for a committed, experienced and self responsible person. We expect that people that join us are caring for the self, for the other and for the space. We want to leave a better place behind and we expect every volunteer that comes here to do the same.

Activities & Shift

On duty: 5 days per week, 8 hours per day.
Off: 2 days per week.

Being our Nature-to-Table Chef, the cooking team leader, thinking, creating, helping, facilitating and organising the cooking work.

A typical day would be to manage a team of assistants and other volunteers that are helping out in the kitchen to cook lunch for the team. Managing groceries list and actually participating in the purchase of goods for the kitchen is also part of the place description. This is a role that is highly engaged with the food gardens team, co-planning with their team leader the layout of the crops.
Sometimes we have group retreats and this person will be responsible for cooking for this retreats.

It is highly appreciated to see a dish portfolio for the evaluation of the application.

Rules

Number of showers per week might be limited due to the dry season, between May and November.