ABOUT HEALTH FUTURES AND THE HEALTHY LUNCH KITCHEN

The Healthy Lunch Kitchen (HLK) is a flagship initiative of Health Futures Australia - an exciting, purpose-driven social enterprise operating across Ballarat, Victoria. The HLK exists to ensure that every child has access to a freshly prepared, highly nutritious meal at school, tackling food insecurity while educating and inspiring the next generation of healthy eaters and creating a healthy food system.

Our core program activities are:

- School Meal Program: Delivering freshly cooked, whole-food meals to children at local schools during school terms. We provide lunches through our 1) subsidised universal program with priority eligible schools, and 2) our catalogue of school meals for all schools.
- School Holidays Cooking Schools: Community cooking classes for children focused on nutrition, connection, skills development, and health and wellbeing, run during school holidays
- HLK LunchBox: A current exciting concept of a catered box of fresh chef-prepared lunch items that can be put into lunchboxes. Each box comprises savoury and naturally sweet items to help families get through their busy weeks.
- Other revenue lines: to develop further business and revenue generating opportunities to enable the enterprise to be financially sustainable.

HLK is growing rapidly and we are building our team to scale the enterprise. This is a rare opportunity to join from the ground floor and help shape a social enterprise with a genuine mission at its heart.

ABOUT YOU

The Social Enterprise Lead Chef is a newly created,



pivotal role within the Healthy Lunch Kitchen. As the Lead HLK chef, you will take ownership of our culinary vision - designing menus, leading food production, creating new revenue-generating food lines, and delivering engaging cooking classes. You will work as part of a diverse team of community and public health professionals, bringing your culinary and business expertise to a team with deep expertise in health promotion and community wellbeing.

This role is ideal for an experienced chef or cook who is passionate about food as a vehicle for health, wants regular hours and a great work-life balance, and is excited by the challenge of being part of a team building something new and meaningful with purpose and impact from the ground up. You will be naturally entrepreneurial, creative and have great ideas for business development and sustainability.

Pay: From $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- Salary packaging

Application Question(s):

- Do you have:
- At least 10 years’ experience as a qualified chef or cook?
- A love of wholefood, nutrition and cooking for health?
- The ability to run engaging, fun cooking classes?
- Excellent communication skills and a team-first attitude?
- Drive, creativity and initiative to thrive in a start-up environment?
- A business and commercial mindset and experience?
- Commitment to our mission to nourish children, support young people, community volunteers and support wellbeing?
- Are you highly flexible and adaptable to change?

Work Location: In person

📌 Social Enterprise Lead Chef (Ballarat)
🏢 Health Futures Australia
📍 Ballarat