Part Time

Thank you for your interest in the post of key keeper with Historic Environment Scotland, based at Lochranza Castle. This is a permanent and pensionable appointment.

The post holder will be a community based contact within the area and will be responsible for keeping the site clean and tidy, reporting damage, as well as other pre-agreed duties on behalf of HES.

Key responsibilities, duties and objectives

· To regularly walk round the monument and ensure access to the monument for visitors for standard published opening hours of 0930 to 1730 daily, April to end September.
· Keep the site clean & tidy and remove litter.
· In the course of carrying out the duties listed above, have due regard to the security and preservation of the monument, reporting damage caused by vandalism, storm or other
· To report any antisocial behaviour directly to local police and HES.

Our Visitor Experience Assistants are key members of our team who act as the first point of contact for visitors – welcoming them to the Centre, providing information on what we do and helping people to learn more about Scotland’s amazing marine wildlife and habitats. Your aim is to ensure that our visitors have a genuinely memorable experience. The role provides an opportunity to both gain experience of, and deliver, excellent customer service across our welcome point, retail, discovery experience and boat (seasonal March-October) activities. At times, you will be asked to help the wider team with café duties, so this role is never dull!

Principal duties

We are looking for enthusiastic people who enjoy proactively engaging with customers across a range of departments. You must have a desire to provide excellent customer care and a memorable experience, often in a fast-paced environment. You should have an interest in Scotland’s marine and coastal environment and environmental sustainability, although opportunities to learn more about this will be provided in the role.

General
• Welcome everyone to the Centre and provide information to them on what they can do when visiting and our wider charitable activities.
• Support the booking systems for our experience activities (boats, discovery, and events) and process admission tickets and/or refunds.
• Promote the benefits of membership and/or our Friends and wildlife adoptions schemes to visitors.
• Support our volunteer team who assist with various activities in the Centre.
• Work safely, observing all Health & Safety policies and procedures.

Discovery Experience: You will support visitors to get the most from the exhibits, interactives, and remote live cameras within our Discovery Experience, including giving information on local wildlife sightings and presentations to groups of visitors on a range of topics (training will be given).

Retail: You will assist at our Information and Retail counter ensuring that all displays and counters are appropriately stocked and presented, assisting with stock selection and management, and supporting customer sales at the till or online. This is the key point for providing general information to our customers.

Boats: you will support customers who wish to take one of our amazing wildlife boat trips by processing bookings, providing information on what they might see and managing any cancellations and refunds to customers.

Café: At peak times you will also support our café operations which will include taking and processing orders at the till, serving meals, clearing and cleaning tables and assisting in the dishwasher area.

Essential skills and experience

• Consistent delivery of a high-quality visitor experience
• Customer-focused attitude and experience
• A confident communicator – verbal and written.
• Organised with an ability to take the initiative and prioritise your work.
• A team player – adaptable and flexible to a varied working environment.
• Attention to detail and providing accurate information.
• Ability to problem-solve.
• Basic IT and maths skills.

Desirable skills and experience
• An interest in Scotland’s marine and coastal environment
• An awareness of and alignment with environmental sustainability principles and practice.

Hours: Days available will range from 3 – 5 days per week and will include weekends. Daily shifts will be from 5 – 8 hours per day.
Pay: £11.25 per hour

The Royal Yacht Britannia is an award-winning, five-star visitor attraction and exclusive evening events venue in Edinburgh, which employs more than 160 staff. This former floating palace of Queen Elizabeth II, usually attracts circa 350,000 visitors a year from around the world, and hosts circa 100 exclusive evening events per annum.

Britannia provides an exceptional experience for visitors. This dedication to excellence has led to the Royal Yacht being rated as Best UK Attraction (Which magazine readers) as well as being Tripadvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best award winner, and the top 1% in the world in its category.

Company benefits include:

– 10% employer pension contribution (no employee contribution)
– 33 days pro-rata annual holiday entitlement
– Enhanced long service holiday entitlement
– Life Assurance
– Performance and loyalty payment scheme
– Complimentary tickets
– Staff discount in the Gift Shop, Royal Deck Tea Room & The Lighthouse Bar aboard Fingal
– Free car parking for staff
– Uniform provided
– Full training

Our Visitor Experience department is now looking for a Part Time Visitor Assistant & Evening Guide who is enthusiastic, with a smart appearance, excellent communication skills and a passion for exceptional customer care.

The job is based in our Visitor Centre and on board Britannia. The position can be physically demanding as you will be standing throughout the duration of your shift.

Responsibilities include:

– Providing a warm welcome to visitors
– Interacting with visitors throughout their tour
– Helping visitors use their audio handset
– Assisting with queue management
Work as a guide at Britannia’s exclusive evening events and private tours (£40 per event)
– Any other Visitor Assistant duties as required
– If you feel you have the personality, skills and experience we are looking for, then we would love to hear from you.

To apply, please send your CV and a short covering letter to recruitment@tryb.co.uk for the attention of Colin Purnell, Visitor Experience Manager.

Closing date: 20th August 2023

No agencies please.

Post: Tour Guide
Part Time Flexible
Wednesday to Sunday
Directorate: Muckle Brig Ltd
Reporting to: Visitor Experience Duty Manager

ABOUT US
Our company values are at the foundation of everything we do.
We focus on products that we love.
We’re realistic.
We keep our conscience clear.
We achieve everything as a team.
We deal with the difficult stuff first.
We spend our money on the right things.
We invite our friends to parties.

2022 was a very exciting (and busy) year at Muckle Brig as we finally opened our new Lind & Lime Gin distillery on Coburg Street. This greatly enhanced our production capacity for gin, but also provided us with a superb new brand home where we now welcome visitors for weekly tours.

Moving forward, the Port of Leith Distillery will open in summer 2023. Here we intend to make a remarkable new single malt Scotch whisky and become a major new tourism landmark in Edinburgh.

OVERVIEW

We’re building Scotland’s first vertical distillery in Edinburgh’s historic whisky district of Leith. Our tour will take in 6 levels of our incredible new building with views spanning across the Firth of Forth, Leith, and back up across Edinburgh, a spectacular Quality Control Tasting Lab, 4 levels for vertical whisky production and our stunning Lexco Retail area on Level 6. We want to make this one of the most exciting whisky tours, anywhere.

That’s where you come in.

We’re looking for passionate, super friendly, outgoing and enthusiastic Tour Guides with excellent multi-tasking skills to join our whisky, gin and people-loving Visitor Experience Team.

As a Port of Leith Tour Guide you will be the face of our Whisky Distillery, leading our guests through our Tour Experience, tasting, bottling and so much more.

Port of Leith Whisky Distillery is a fun, fast-paced, diverse environment to work in. Excellent communication skills are paramount to a successful day. Your skills, enthusiasm and diplomacy will shine through for our guests and your colleagues within the distillery.

Duties include:
• Welcome and orientate guests
• Dynamic storytelling in a timely fashion round our distillery providing the historical stories behind our whisky, factual information on our production process, demonstrating mini-bottling and conducting tasting sessions in our Quality Control Laboratory
• Shifts setting up, clearing, cleaning and resetting the tour route and tasting laboratory for each tour
• Ongoing cleanliness and presentability of the tour area
• Assisting with guests needs as required to ensure an excellent experience
• Assisting with Private Tours and Events on an ad hoc basis
• Weekly and monthly stock takes across Tour and Retail stock
• Being a superb ambassador for all aspects of Muckle Brig including Lind & Lime, Port of Leith Distillery and LEXCO, our export company.
• Following our Health & Safety and Food Hygiene policies
• You may be required to work at other Muckle Brig locations when appropriate
• Other tasks as required

Skills & Experience:

As the welcoming face or our distillery, you are a superb communicator with an enthusiastic and flexible approach with the ability to adapt to any situation. You can create a fabulous atmosphere for groups large and small. You are a competent multi-tasker who thrives on being part of a team delivering excellent visitor experience. Regular training and coaching provided.

• Enthusiastic and confident, warm, friendly with plenty of energy
• Confident to present to groups, large and small
• Positive, can-do attitude
• Excellent timekeeping skills are essential
• Previous presenting and/or bar experience would be advantageous but not essential
• Fluency in a foreign language would be advantageous but not essential
• Knowledge of the whisky production process would be advantageous but not essential

SALARY & BENEFITS
• Company discretionary annual bonus scheme.
• 20 days holidays per year + public holidays pro rata
• Employee discount scheme.
• Employee cask programme, share trust and bonus incentives.
• Full training given with CPD opportunities ongoing

This job description is indicative of the nature and level of responsibility associated with the job. It is not exhaustive and there may be a requirement to undertake other duties as required

To apply please send your CV and Cover Letter to jobs@mucklebrig.com

JOB PURPOSE
To maximise our visitors’ enjoyment of National Trust for Scotland managed sites by maintaining the excellent standards we set across our properties to enable us to provide the best possible experience for our visitors. Providing an efficient, reliable service and high standards in housekeeping based on the needs of the property. Specifically, to ensure that all areas and public areas are cleaned and maintained to the highest standards, to make the property the best possible place to visit and work.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
The Housekeeper is responsible for a wide variety of housekeeping duties in connection with the well-being and care of the visited, non-visited and holiday accommodation at Culzean Castle and Country Parkas per the Trust’s Housekeeping Procedures Manual.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated and talented customer focused individuals to join our team at Pitmedden Garden.
Situated in the heart of Aberdeenshire, Pitmedden Garden is a popular visitor attraction for tourists and locals alike.
Staff should be passionate about delivering outstanding customer experiences to our visitors and guests and able to maximise opportunities to generate income. It’s important that Visitor Service Assistants (VSA’s) ensure the property and its assets are safe and secure. Furthermore, we’re looking for team workers who are also able to use their own initiative and are driven to make a difference.
This role is about creating a 5 star visitor experience and providing outstanding customer service.

Glasgow Science Centre (GSC) is an educational charity and leading science centre and visitor attraction with a 5-star status. Our mission is to inspire everyone to explore and understand the world around them and to discover and enjoy science.

We are a place of learning, creativity, curiosity, and fun, inspiring and empowering around half a million people every year, both inside and outside our amazing centre in Pacific Quay, on the banks of the Clyde.

Our state-of-the-art centre contains more than 450 interactive exhibits, a digital planetarium, a science show theatre, a teaching laboratory, an IMAX cinema, and a maker space. We also take science out of our centre and across Scotland with our On Tour programme and our Community Engagement Programme works closely with people in our local communities.

Our staff are vitally important to us and play a key role in achieving our mission. We value diversity in our workforce and want our workforce to reflect the diverse communities we serve bringing a range of skills, experiences, knowledge, and ideas to help towards our mission.

Our company values are important to us as they underpin who we are and how we work, what we believe in and stand for:

We strive for excellence

We are inclusive

We innovate

We collaborate

ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you committed to seeking excellence, creativity and innovation? Do GSC’s mission and values excite you? Do you want to work in a positive, vibrant and collaborative environment?

We are recruiting for Customer Service Assistants to join the Customer Experience Team to deliver a fun, safe and welcoming environment to all customers in a variety of area including the ticket desk, hosting, dealing with groups, Tower, Gift shop and IMAX. You will also support Food and Beverage and Science Operations teams as and when required to meet operational needs and enhance the overall customer experience.

If this sounds like you then we would love you to get in touch!

Job: Visitor Experience Assistant
Salary: £21,537 pro rata per annum (£14,552 actual salary per annum)
Benefits: Fantastic pension (26.6%), Generous annual leave!
Hours: 25 Hours (Permanent) (5 days across 7) or 21 Hours (Permanent) (3 days across 7). Seasonal 1 April – 31 Oct.
Location: National Museum of Flight (East Lothian)
National Museums Scotland is one of the leading museum groups in Europe. Our Museum of Flight is located on the site of the UK’s best preserved Second World War airfield and has a collection of over 50 aircrafts and Scotland’s only Concorde!
We are looking for enthusiastic, passionate, honest, service-driven individuals to join our team.
Responsibilities:
As Visitor Experience Assistant with National Museum of Flight you will:
• Be proactive, approachable and visitor focussed in being ready to offer support, directions and assistance to visitors.

• Be visible at all times, maintaining a consistent, engaging and professional manner in providing a high-quality customer service.

• To support a broad range of public programmes, exhibitions and events e.g. facilitating group visits and learning events for a wide range of visitors.
Requirements:
• Friendly and approachable
• Good organisational and communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Able to resolve incidents to a satisfactory outcome,
• Able to travel reliably to site
• Work to a systematic rota that includes weekend working
Extra Benefits:
• Civil service pension (26.6% employer contributions!)
• Generous Annual leave: 36.5 days! (pro rata where appropriate & Inclusive of public holidays)
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free access to national (and international) museums and exhibitions!
• Exclusive discounts on both local and national high street and online retailers!
For us, hiring the right person for the right job is everything to us. We want to encourage you to apply if you think the this is the role for you!
If you would like to apply we would advise that you read through the full recruitment pack for this role and apply directly via our website linked below.
National Museums Scotland (nms.ac.uk)