🌍 Regional Chef Trainer – Tanzania

📍 Location: Tanzania (travelling role across multiple properties) 💰 Salary: $3,000 – $3,500 per month 📝 Contract Type: Full-time

👨‍🍳 The Role

The Regional Chef Trainer will champion culinary standards across the group’s Tanzanian properties. This is a dynamic, hands-on, travelling role ideal for a chef who thrives in diverse environments, enjoys mentoring teams, and is passionate about delivering consistent, high-quality cuisine in remote lodge settings.

You will rotate between a variety of unique properties.

Regular travel — including light aircraft transfers and remote camp access — is an essential part of the role.

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• 🍽️ Deliver structured, hands-on culinary training to head chefs and kitchen brigades across all properties
• 📘 Develop and implement standardised recipes, menus and kitchen procedures tailored to each lodge’s setting and logistical realities
• 🧼 Train teams in food hygiene, safety and sanitation aligned with international best practice
• 🌱 Mentor and upskill junior and mid-level chefs, strengthening succession pipelines
• 🤝 Collaborate with General Managers and Executive Chefs to align menus with brand standards while celebrating local character and seasonal produce
• 📊 Support menu planning, costing, portion control and food cost management
• 🔍 Conduct kitchen audits and produce clear action plans after each visit
• 👥 Assist with onboarding and training of new culinary hires
• 🌎 Stay current with global culinary trends and dietary requirements (allergies, vegan/vegetarian, cultural considerations)
• ✈️ Travel independently and frequently, planning training schedules that minimise operational disruption

🎯 Requirements

• 🎓 Formal culinary qualification and extensive experience as a Head Chef or Executive Chef in luxury lodges, safari camps or high-end hospitality
• 👨‍🏫 Proven experience training, mentoring and developing kitchen teams
• 🏕️ Experience working in remote or logistically challenging environments is a strong advantage
• 🍛 Strong knowledge of international and East African cuisine, food safety and luxury food presentation
• ✈️ Willingness and ability to travel extensively, including via light aircraft
• 🗣️ Excellent communication and leadership skills
• 💪 Physically fit and adaptable to varied climates (highland cold, coastal heat)
• 🇬🇧 Fluency in English required; Swahili an advantage
• 🚗 Valid driver’s licence; Tanzanian work permit or eligibility preferred

🎁 What’s on Offer

• 💵 Competitive salary: $3,000 – $3,500 net per month
• 🌅 The chance to shape culinary standards across an award-winning luxury safari collection
• 🦁 Immersion in Tanzania’s most spectacular wilderness and coastal landscapes
• 🔄 A varied, travel-based role ideal for a chef who prefers adventure over routine