About the role of Evening and Overnight Activities Leader
This role involves leading and supporting evening and overnight events at the Market Hall and St Johns House museums in Warwick.
At the Market Hall museum, you will run our Night at the Museum sleepover experience. Groups arrive for the Lego challenge, pizza and chips, and watch a film before settling down for a night with the exhibits. You will need to be comfortable with lone working for these events and enthusiastic about sleeping at the museum. We take bookings for sleepovers on Friday and Saturday nights for organized groups of children and accompanying adults.
This role also works with another Evening and Overnight Activities Leader to supervise overnight hire of St Johns House museum. You are responsible for unlocking the building, greeting the individuals who have hired the building, and ensuring the safety of the building during the event. You will need to be comfortable working until the early hours of the morning. We take bookings for overnight hire on Friday and Saturday nights.
A Duty Manager is also on call during the sleepovers and overnight hires. From time to time, the role can also include assisting with private functions at the Market Hall museum alongside the Development Team.
About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire
Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and visitors connect and engage with their local heritage. We safeguard Warwickshire's archives, history, and natural sciences, protect its historic and natural environment, and provide high-quality arts and cultural opportunities and lifelong learning for everyone in the County and beyond.
Heritage and Culture Warwickshire has several sites based in and around Warwick: Market Hall Museum, St Johns House, Warwickshire County Record Office, and a Collections Centre for the museum collections. We are a countywide service and work with partners from within and outside Warwickshire County Council to offer outreach services to local communities.
About the Learning and Community Engagement team
The Learning and Community Engagement team (Lace) consists of the Senior Lace Officer, a Lace Officer, a Lace Trainee, the Volunteer Coordinator, and an Exhibitions and Engagement Officer who are the core team, along with several teams of staff who deliver our activity programmes. We deliver workshops for schools at HCW sites and in schools, an events and activities programme for families and adult audiences at the Market Hall museum and the County Record Office, and we run regular groups that meet at the Market Hall museum such as Arty Tots. We also run sleepovers and supervise overnight commercial hire of St Johns House. The Support Assistant and Overnight Activities teams support the Development Team with the delivery of events for income generation.
Our school workshop programme is delivered by a team of Group Leaders, assisted by the Support Assistant team. The Support Assistant team, along with the Evening and Overnight Activity Leaders team, deliver our family holiday events in the Market Hall Museum and evening events. The Evening and Overnight Activity Leaders also supervise and run group sleepovers at the Market Hall museum.
We are looking for individuals who enjoy working with people and are friendly and welcoming. Good organizational and timekeeping skills will help you succeed in this role. Teamwork and communication are key to this position. You will have key holder responsibility as part of this role. Although an interest in heritage is useful, it is not essential for this role. The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
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At Warwickshire County Council, we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills, and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best. Warwickshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults. Please be advised that successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offense, an individual assessment will be completed. Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
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The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to the Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
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