The Museum is looking for a part-time Retail Assistant.
Location: Cosford
Salary: £10,689
Employment Contract Type: Permanent - Part-time - Annualised - 1050 hours
Closing Date: 17/10/2021 11:59 pm
Interview Date: 03/11/2021
About the role
Retail Assistant
Permanent
Part-time – Annualised: 1050 hours
Cosford
£10,689 per annum (FTE £18,527.60)
The Royal Air Force Museum is a national museum, a Government non-departmental public body (NDPB) and a registered charity, with two sister sites at London and Cosford. RAF Museum Enterprises Ltd is the trading arm of the RAF Museum with all profits gift-aided to the Museum to support its charitable activities. Our purpose is to share the RAF story, past, present and future – using the stories of its people and our collections in order to engage, inform and inspire everyone. Our overall vision is to inspire everyone with the RAF story – the people who shape it and its place in our lives.
The museum is looking to recruit a Retail Assistant who will be on a permanent annualised contract, working 1050 hours per annum, including regular weekend working, evenings and bank holidays.
The post holder will be responsible for delivering the commercial activities of the Museum with the sale of goods and services in our retail and visitor areas and supporting the delivery of museum events.
Key duties will include preparing, monitoring and operating the simulators/4D experience and other relevant commercial attractions. You will provide high standards of customer care through proactive engagement with visitors. Your duties will also include serving customers at the sales counter and assisting in the receipt, checking, location and movements of stock.
The ideal person for this position should have excellent customer service skills, a friendly attitude and the ability to multi-task. You must be able to demonstrate ability to deliver exceptional visitor service, ensuring that the experience provided by The Royal Air Force Museum exceeds the expectations of all visitors and that they are delighted with our first class service and connected with our compelling stories.
The ideal candidate will have previous retail or customer facing experience, be a team player and keen to learn new skills. They will be enthusiastic about presenting the Museum, the RAF and the RAF stories to all our visitors.
To apply:
• Please provide your current CV with a supporting statement which provides specific examples which demonstrate how you meet the competencies in the job description. Please note that the shortlisting process will give greater weighting to the essential technical competencies. Please send the completed documents to jobs@rafmuseum.org with ‘Retail Assistant’ on the subject line.
• Closing date for applications: 17 October 2021
• Interviews will take place on: 3 November 2021
In light of the recent health climate concerning the Coronavirus, we will be carrying out all interviews via Microsoft Teams. We will confirm the arrangements to all candidates selected for interview.
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