Visitor and Monument Assistant - Various locations - EDN29219

Job Description

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Visitor and Monuments Assistant
Various see below

Salary: £24,909 - £25,116
Hours: 36 per week

This role will predominantly be working at the Scott and Nelson Monuments along with various locations throughout the City Centre and Queensferry

Full time (including Weekends) required

We are looking for candidates for full time five days over seven including 1 hour lunch break per day, working alternative Saturdays and Sundays.

Would you like to be part of a team that welcomes 750,000 visitors a year?

Do you have a love of Edinburgh's history, along with a head for heights?

We are looking for individuals who can deliver a welcoming, memorable and enjoyable experience for all the visitors and customers, ensuring that they receive the highest level of customer service at all times whilst contributing to the commercial success of our collection of unique buildings .

Before applying for this job, it is important you read the job description and person specification by clicking on the attachments. These explain the job role.

The post will give team members the opportunity to work predominantly at the Scott and Nelson Monuments along with our other amazing venues: The City Art Centre, Museum of Childhood, Museum of Edinburgh, People’s Story, Writers’ Museum, and Queensferry Museum.

The post will involve working both indoors and outdoors plus due to the historic nature of our building involves climbing and descending a lot of stairs, and when working at one of the monuments the chance to look out over the breath taking sights of the Capital from the best view point in the City!

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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