About This Role
This is a private residence kitchen role, not a restaurant line-cook position — you would be cooking for a household on the night shift, which means a smaller team, quieter environment, and direct accountability for the meals residents eat. Kerchanshe Trading is one of Ethiopia's largest coffee exporters, and a residence cook role at a company of that scale typically serves senior management or expatriate staff, so expectations around presentation and consistency tend to run higher than the title suggests. It suits someone with solid foundational cooking skills who prefers steady overnight work and can operate with minimal supervision.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The 1–3 year band and the emphasis on preparation, measuring, and following planned menus point to a role where reliability matters more than culinary creativity — they want someone who executes a menu consistently, not someone experimenting. The food safety and hygiene language signals that this kitchen will be inspected or held to a standard, so a candidate who can show formal hygiene awareness stands out. The night shift framing also implies they need someone who won't treat the schedule as temporary until something better comes along.
How to Approach This Application
Lead with your night-shift availability and any prior experience cooking for a household, guesthouse, or institutional kitchen — that context maps more directly than restaurant volume experience. Mention specific cuisines or dish types you can prepare confidently, including local dishes and pastries, since the role explicitly spans both. If you have food safety or hygiene training, state it plainly near the top; given the compliance language, it may be a screening criterion rather than a nice-to-have.
Who This Role Suits
Best suited to a junior cook with household or small-kitchen experience who values stability and can commit to overnight hours long term. Competition is likely moderate — the night shift narrows the applicant pool, which works in your favor if you're genuinely available for it.
Job Purpose :- Cook (Residence, Night Shift) - Responsible for preparing and cooking meals for the residence during the night shift, including ingredient preparation, maintaining food quality, and ensuring compliance with food safety and hygiene standards to provide timely and hygienic meals for residents.
Main Duties and Responsibilities :
- Sorts out and arranges kitchen supplies received for the cooking order of the day,
- Carries out cleaning, chopping, and other preparatory activities on kitchen inputs before use in cooking,
- Measures and mixes ingredients according to recipe using a variety of kitchen utensils and equipment,
- Fries, boils, roasts and steams the meat, fish, vegetables and other food according to planned menus,
- Cooks pastries, local dishes, hot and cold food in accordance with standard menus and recipes of the day in consultation with and under coaching by a senior cook,
- Takes care of cooked food, sorts, stores and keeps in a designated kitchenware item or place as appropriate until delivery for serving
- Operates cooking and storing equipment of the kitchen,
- Regulates oven temperature and checks the progress of cooking,
- Conforms to kitchen sanitation regulations and standards effectively and consistently,
- Follows and facilitates cleaning up and dishwashing,
- Delivers cooked food for serving;
Education
- Diploma or Level III in Food preparation/Cooking
Experience :-
- Minimum of 2 years for diploma & 2 for Level III
Skills
- Good interpersonal skills,
- Communication skills,
- Cooking skills
How To Apply
Applicants who meet the above requirements are invited to apply through the link provided below.
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