Chief Cook at SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda:Deadline: 16-02-2022

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Position:Chief Cook

Type of contract:Open

Working location:National Office

Supervisor: Logistics, Fleet, Asset Officer

Deadline: 16^th February 2022

The National Office of SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda located at Kigali/Kacyiru wishes to recruit 1 Chief Cook for the Guest House of its National Office.

Content of the organization

Established in 1949, SOS Children’s Villages is a dynamic social development international organization working globally to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of vulnerable children.  In Rwanda SOS Children’s Villages is an affiliate of SOS Children’s Villages International which is a federation of over 130 SOS Children’s Villages associations world-wide. We build families for neglected, abandoned or orphaned children, we help them shape their own futures and we share in the development of their communities. In order to further satisfy this responsibility, SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda is seeking for a competent Chief Cook.

Job Purpose

The chief cook is the responsible of the work done in the kitchen and the restaurant. The main tasks are to avail meals for Guests, participants in the trainings and meetings, preparing balanced diet for training participants and responding to special diets in need be.

She/He is also required to make the restaurant more attractive, and ensuring customer care is one of the main attitudes as well. She/He is the manager of the casual workers in her/his service when hired to support her/him. In addition, the chief cook can contribute in trainings for caregivers in topics related to balanced diet, in the Care Training or at location level.

 Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

1. Avail meals for Guests, participants in the trainings and meetings,ensuring a healthy diet

• Set menus
• Purchasing ingredients for the kitchen
• Prepare meals
• Avail the menu tags
• Ensure customer care during breakfast, health breaks, lunch and dinner

2. Setting a pleasant restaurant for the National Office guests

• Ensure the hygiene of the restaurant
• Hygiene of kitchen materials
• Make an inventory of materials to be replaced when needed
• Making the restaurant always attractive (decoration, TV, classic music)

3. Stock management

• Ensure food purchasing
• Liaise with the accountant for reception
• Stocking
• Ensure a good conservation of food
• Make a comprehensive management of stock, according to the number of guests to cater for

4. Management of kitchen staff

• Tasks dispatching
• Hygiene of staff (kitchen suits, check on corporal hygiene, harmful germs prevention
• Guiding and orientation while preparing meals
• Verify their attendance and sign their attendance

How to Apply:

If you believe you are the right candidate for the above position, please send your detailed application including:

• Application letter,
•  CV
•  Copies of education qualification, and
• A mandatory employment application form well filled in, Available on this link: https://forms.office.com/r/1bAHWacvzj

NB: The applications from qualified women are strongly encouraged

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

All applications should be submitted not later than 16^th February 2022 at the latest by 17h00 hours Kigali time to sos.recruitment@sos-rwanda.org

Late applications will not be accepted.

“SOS Children’s Villages Rwanda/ International holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conducts of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection and hiring decisions will give due emphasize to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, police clearance reference check processes”.

Kigali, on 3^rd February 2022.

Jean Bosco KWIZERA

 National Director

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