Step Into the Future of Hospitality Education
Are you an experienced hospitality professional ready to inspire the next generation of restaurant leaders?
Restaurant Wannee is seeking a
Practical Facilitator who combines operational excellence with a passion for coaching and education.
In this role, you’ll go beyond the restaurant: guiding, coaching, and inspiring students in a dynamic educational environment. As a Practical Facilitator, you play a key role in bridging industry and education, helping students develop not only their technical skills but also their confidence, professionalism, and love for the craft.
About Restaurant Wannee
At Restaurant Wannee, we offer a unique dining experience rooted in sustainability, transparency, and creativity. Our seasonal dishes are locally sourced and globally inspired—crafted and served by students in training to become the next generation of hospitality leaders. The restaurant features a Bar & Lounge, a casual fine-dining restaurant, and five versatile banqueting rooms, creating a dynamic learning environment where students gain real-world hospitality experience.
The Role
As a Restaurant Practical Facilitator, you will:
- Lead day-to-day restaurant operations within a dynamic, commercially driven hospitality environment.
- Coach and mentor hospitality students across all areas of restaurant operations, including exceptional food and beverage service and bar operations.
- Act as a role model, industry mentor, and hospitality expert, fostering professionalism and excellence in service standards.
- Collaborate closely with fellow facilitators and the Head of Food & Beverage to maintain outstanding operational and educational standards.
- Monitor service quality, guest satisfaction, and operational efficiency to ensure a consistently high-quality dining experience.
- Integrate practical assignments and real-world learning into daily operations.
- Contribute to the development of innovative training strategies and continuous improvement of educational practices.
- Evaluate operational and financial performance to maximize efficiency and support the restaurant’s commercial success.
- Embrace digital tools and actively contribute to improving operational systems and workflows.
What You Bring
- A strong background in hospitality, with prior management experience preferred.
- Expertise in bar service, wine knowledge, and front-of-house operations.
- Experience in coaching, training, or mentoring, ideally within an educational or learning-focused environment.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
- Proficiency in English (minimum Cambridge B2 level), along with strong Microsoft Office skills and a willingness to learn new digital tools.
- A bachelor’s degree, or a demonstrated willingness to obtain one.
- A didactic qualification/endorsement, or a commitment to pursuing one.
Why Join Us?
This role offers a unique opportunity to combine
hospitality operations with education. You will lead within a dynamic, commercially operating restaurant while mentoring and inspiring the next generation of hospitality professionals.
We are seeking a strong logistical communicator who can translate complex hospitality processes into clear, practical, and actionable steps. You understand that students need to learn not only
how things are done, but also why—and you are skilled at providing that essential context in a way that is engaging and easy to apply in practice.
This is an opportunity to shape future industry talent while remaining closely connected to real-world restaurant operations. In this forward-thinking environment, you will collaborate closely with students, educators, and hospitality professionals to create a meaningful and lasting impact on both learning and service excellence.
Are you ready to take the next step
If you’re passionate about hospitality and education, we’d love to hear from you.
Meet NHL Stenden Hospitality Group – The Flavor of Your Day
From your first coffee to a relaxing drink at the end of the day, we’re here to add flavor to every moment. We are NHL Stenden Hospitality Group (NHG), the team behind ten unique outlets—including Notiz Hotel, Restaurant Wannee, the Espresso bar, and Café IF. Our passionate staff and dedicated students work together to deliver warm, high-quality hospitality.
Our passionate staff and dedicated students work together to deliver warm, high-quality hospitality. Every visit supports hands-on learning and innovation in our pilot kitchen environment.
What we offer
We offer a dynamic and fast-growing workplace where you’ll have the opportunity to grow, share ideas, and make a real impact.
- Depending on your knowledge and experience, the gross monthly salary ranges from €2.950,65 to €4595,29(scale 7–8 of the compensation and benefits of NHG) based on a full-time position (1.0 FTE) excluding 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
- The contract is initially for the duration of 1 year but may be extended after successful completion of this period.
Curious to learn more? Read on—we’d love to welcome you to our team.
NHG also offers attractive terms and conditions including many opportunities in personal and career development, participation in collective health insurance and an employer vitality plan. Other conditions include a paid parental leave, a bicycle scheme and travel compensation as well as other insurance schemes.
The operational hours align with the restaurants opening hours – You will work 5 days per week and depending on your shift this will include a weekend rotation as we are 7-day operations. Working hours are from 6:00AM to 11:30 PM. Note that flexibility in working hours may be required to accommodate peak periods, special events and public holidays.
The procedure
Interested? Submit your motivation letter and CV in English (in a single document) via the
application button, addressed to Veronica Mal, mentioning the vacancy number 3777 NHG in the subject line.
You can apply until June 17, 2026. We will inform you after the closing date if we wish to proceed with your application. The interviews are scheduled for June 25 and 26. For any content-related questions about the role, you can contact Veronica Mal, Head of Food & Beverage at veronica.mal[at]nhlstenden.com.
In addition to the usual selection process, your application letter and CV may also be shared with the Knowledge Safety Coordinator of NHL Stenden. As part of Knowledge Safety, an additional interview or screening may take place to ensure that sensitive information remains protected and that the knowledge shared within our organization contributes to society in a responsible manner.
This vacancy is open to both internal and external candidates. In the case of equal suitability, preference will be given to an internal candidate
Details from this vacancy listing are not to be used for marketing purposes.
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