Personal Chef – Meal Prep and Catering

About Kampala Personal Chef

Kampala Personal Chef provides private chefs to households and businesses across Kampala. The service covers weekly meal prep and dietary menus, intimate dinner parties, villa and vacation catering, small corporate events, and private cooking classes. Clients include both Kampala residents and international visitors staying in the city.

About the role

Weekly meal prep is our most requested service and it is where most of your work will come from. Clients want a week of balanced, properly cooked food prepared in their own kitchen, often to a specific dietary brief. Alongside that we take dinner parties, villa catering and small corporate events, so we are looking for a chef who is comfortable moving between the two.

Range matters here more than specialisation. A chef who can cook a week of meal prep on Monday and handle a dinner party on Saturday is worth considerably more to us, and earns more, than a chef who only does one.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and cook weekly meal prep in clients’ homes, including dietary menus for clients with specific health or nutrition requirements
• Shop for fresh ingredients and work to an agreed budget without compromising on quality
• Cook for dinner parties, villa stays and small corporate events as those bookings come up
• Portion, label and store meals so that they keep properly through the week
• Leave every kitchen exactly as you found it, because you are working in someone’s home
• Give the office clear feedback after each job so that repeat bookings run more smoothly than the first

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Real cooking experience, whether gained in restaurants, hotels, private households or catering
• Range across cuisines and formats, since meal prep, plated dinner service and buffet catering each demand something different
• Reliability and good timekeeping, because clients plan their week around when you arrive
• Clean, professional presentation and conduct in a client’s home
• Based in Kampala and able to travel to clients across the city

Desirable

• Formal culinary training or a recognised food hygiene certificate
• Experience cooking to dietary requirements such as diabetic, low sodium, vegetarian or weight management menus
• Experience in private household service rather than restaurant kitchens alone
• Your own transport, which makes multiple bookings in a day realistic

What we offer

• Paid per job, agreed in advance and based on your experience
• Regular meal prep clients, which means steady repeating work rather than isolated one off bookings
• Bookings brought to you, so you spend your time cooking rather than looking for clients
• Flexibility to keep your own catering work alongside this

Who this suits

This role suits a chef who enjoys cooking for individuals and families rather than serving a room of two hundred covers, and who takes pride in food that someone will eat across a whole week. It suits someone reliable enough to be trusted with keys and kitchen access in a private home. It will not suit a chef who needs the structure and pace of a restaurant brigade to work well.

How to Apply

Applications are handled on the Kampala Personal Chef careers page. Use the Apply button below, tell us which role you are applying for, describe the kind of cooking you are strongest at, and attach your CV.