HEAD CHEF

Head Chef — M Resort & Spa, Vanuatu

Off-grid boutique beachfront resort | Efate Island, Vanuatu

M Resort & Spa is a four-villa, off-grid, solar-powered beachfront eco-resort in Mangaliliu, on Efate’s north-west coast — set within Chief Roi Mata’s Domain, Vanuatu’s only UNESCO World Heritage Protected Zone. We are building Vanuatu’s leading culinary experience: fresh local produce, dishes rooted in the stories of this land and its people, and a dining program that becomes as much a reason to visit as the reef out front.

We’re looking for a Head Chef who wants more than a kitchen to run. This is a genuine leadership seat at the resort table — working directly alongside the Resort Manager, Operations Manager, Purchasing Officer and Owner to shape the guest experience end to end. Once past probation, the successful candidate has the opportunity to move onto a resort-wide profit share model with uncapped earnings potential — you build the food and beverage result, you share in the resort’s result.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven Head Chef / Executive Chef experience in a boutique, luxury, or high-end resort or restaurant setting
• A genuine passion for local, seasonal, and sustainably sourced produce, and the storytelling instinct to put a dish’s story on the plate, not just its ingredients
• The leadership range to run a small, close-knit kitchen team and to operate as a senior voice across the wider resort
• Comfort with off-grid, remote-location realities — solar power, local supply chains, and building menus around what the island actually gives you
• Strong cost control, purchasing, and menu development discipline
• Solid working knowledge of HACCP and food safety systems, with the discipline to make them part of daily kitchen practice, not a once a-year audit exercise

What’s on offer:

• The chance to work at an award-worthy beachfront eco-resort on a UNESCO World Heritage-listed reef
• Direct line into resort leadership — this role shapes far more than the pass
• Resort-wide profit share with uncapped earnings for the right candidate post-probation
• The chance to define Vanuatu’s next great dining story from the ground up

If you’re a chef who wants ownership of the outcome, not just the kitchen — we want to hear from you.
Apply with your CV and a short note on the dish, ingredient, or food story that best represents who you are as a chef.

How to Apply

Please submit your CV along with a short written statement describing the dish, ingredient, or food story that best represents you as a chef, and why you want to lead the kitchen — and the resort — at M Resort & Spa.