Events

Similar to many small independent museums during this past year the Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum has been going through changes and you would be joining a small but energetic and experienced team passionate about telling Andrew Carnegie’s story and so much more about the man.
This role represents a blend of engagement delivery through non-traditional education activities and entertaining and innovative events, chargeable and non-chargeable.
There is good attendance to education workshops from local primary schools for you to maintain and there are more opportunities to be explored with secondary and local college students as well as some primary schools not yet visiting.
A new series of winter talks about Carnegie, his family and his achievements over the winter have expanded our audience’s knowledge about the man and has shown local audiences remain interested in finding out more.
Previous education officers established the museum within family circles and won the museum the coveted Kids in Museums Family Friendly Museum Award in 2019. It is time to build on these achievements and consider young people and local audiences new to Dunfermline and how the museum could meet their interests.

You will be experienced in creating, delivering and evaluating engagement events, aware of risk assessments, planning needs and working with a wide range of audiences.
Working in a small independent museum comes with the challenges of the wide range of responsibilities noted below, but that includes the experience to benefit from using a wide range of skills and competencies you have learned from previous jobs, which need not be heritage based. Working in a small team brings immense job satisfaction and opportunities to execute ideas with haste and flexibility.

Key responsibilities include:
– Develop and deliver content related to the museum’s purpose to share Andrew Carnegie’s story for all audiences;
– Non-traditional education, using Curriculum for Excellence framework
– Group visits and tours including cruise ship tourists and uniform groups
– Local residents of Dunfermline and Fife
– Maintain a high-quality visitor experience in the Museum using methods of engagement like interactives, handling objects, dressing up, etc.
– Maintain existing partnership relationships and develop new ones which elevate the Carnegie story and complement the ambitions of Carnegie Dunfermline Trust and wider partners
– Create, deliver and evaluate innovative and relevant events to connect paying audiences with the collection
– Supervise and motivate a small group of volunteers
– Create content to positively impact audiences’ physical, intellectual and wellbeing needs
– Promote the education offer to increase visits by local schools and grow virtual visits from distant schools
– Event planning, promotion, delivery and evaluation of all activities to ensure they are meeting community needs and identify new opportunities
– Support colleagues with expertise and information to promote education within programmes and interpretation
– Support the Museum Co-Managers in the museums accreditation return, policy writing and operations of the Museum for education topics
– Communicate relevant and informative content with the Museum’s audiences in all formats, e.g. website, telephone, social media, etc.
– Occasionally cover role of Museum Assistant welcoming visitors to the museum and selling items in the shop

Contract Type: Permanent
Hourly Rate: £12.76 – £13.98 plus unsociable enhancements
Grade: FC05
Hours: 16 hours per week
Location: Rothes Halls
Job Reference: ON000421

We are OnFife and as Fife’s largest cultural organisation we specialise in making jaws drop, hearts warm, eyes light up and imaginations run wild. We work with a huge range of partners, artists and creatives and our spaces are some of Fife’s favourite places. An ambitious leadership-oriented charity, we’re built on strong values, and those values make us who we are – Fearless, Inviting, Fair and Exciting.

As an employer, we offer a local government pension scheme, generous holiday allowance and flexible working opportunities. If you need to travel for work, we can provide pool cars if you’re near head office or pay travel expenses so you are not out of pocket! Along with this, you can also access discounted gym/swim memberships and other employee benefits.

The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Experience Supervisor to join our Commercial Services team. Your days and hours of working will flex to meet the business needs, and this will include regular weekend and evening work, predominantly at our Escape Room in Rothes Halls. The role offers potential to develop your skills and experience as we continue to expand our commercial experiences, supporting exhibitions and events across our sites.

You’ll supervise the day-to-day operations of Cryptic Kingdom Escape Room, leading a team of Game Masters to deliver immersive and exciting experiences to our customers. Building new audiences and increasing sales through imaginative promoting of both digital and face to face activities.

The full job description can be found on our current vacancies page on our website.

About You
You’ll come from a sales background, with leadership experience but it will be your enthusiasm to ensure high levels of customer service that makes you really stand out. Naturally good with people, you’ll be able to put customers of all ages and backgrounds at ease, whilst helping to promote our products, events, and services.

Organised, efficient and thriving on variety, you will be confident in helping customers with queries, maximising sales, along with the creative flair needed to inspire and engage both service users and team members. It goes without saying you’ll need excellent numeracy, literacy and communication skills, but you’ll also need excellent administration skills.

How to Apply
If you’re looking for a new challenge in your career, please download and complete an application form and equal opportunities monitoring form and return these to the HR team. The application pack can be downloaded from our current vacancies page on our website.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 25th June 2023, however we may close the vacancy earlier than this if we receive a high number of suitable candidates, so please submit your application as soon as you’re ready.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

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Community Co-production Officer
£31,487 – £34,942 per annum (pro rata)
18 hours per week
Fixed Term to April 2024

Culture Perth and Kinross are seeking an individual experienced in community co-production within a cultural or creative setting to lead the development and delivery of a co-produced art display to sit at the heart of the opening exhibition programme for the new Perth Museum opening in 2024. The post-holder will have strong links with currently under-represented groups or communities and a track record of project managing the co-production process and championing community perspectives and creativity within a museum, gallery, or similar visitor attraction environment.

This is a fixed-term post for the development of the temporary exhibition, and will work closely with the Exhibitions team at Perth Museum and Perth Art Gallery, and our partners Perth and Kinross Council.

If you believe you have what it takes to help us achieve success, then please email jobs@culturepk.org.uk for an application form.

Closing date for applications is 10am on Thursday 4 May
Please note interviews will take place on Thursday 11 May

Hopetoun House is one of Scotland’s finest Stately Homes and is managed by the Hopetoun House Preservation Trust. The Trust’s purpose is the preservation and conservation of the house, its contents and immediate grounds together with facilitating public access and making educational use of Hopetoun. Hopetoun currently welcomes around 50,000 visitors per year and is graded as a 5 Star attraction by Visit Scotland.

The Role

We are looking for a Hospitality & Event Assistant to join our team and assist our Event Managers with the delivery of luxury events, weddings and functions at Hopetoun House. You must have an outgoing, can-do personality with a passion for excellent customer service and an eye for detail.

The candidate will work alongside our Operations Team in order to deliver private events at Hopetoun.

Hours of Work and Rate

As this work is dependent on bookings the shifts are determined by the events booked and days of the week can be sporadic, but typically fall on the weekend. We operate private events all year round, however the majority of the shifts will be within the summer months. The candidate would work on a zero-hour contract, though we would expect a minimum of one shift per week at busy periods.

Rate of pay: £10.90 per hour

Zero Hour Contract

Food is also typically (but not always) provided during the shift.

Example shift patterns

Our core requirement is for the Saturday day events (typically from 11am – 6pm), though additional hours may occasionally be available if you wish to take them for midweek evening events, and sometimes for daytime lunches and conferences.

Duties include

Day Shift;

Preparing the House and/or event rooms before an event, making sure all is presentable
Final check of external areas – tidy and sweep if required
Unlocking windows and fire-exits before an event
Assisting with the general set-up for events (placing chair covers/stationery/occasional lights/candles)
Directing client and guest car-parking outside the House
Meeting and greeting guests, taking their coats and giving them directions
Assisting guests and clients with any queries and questions
Assisting the Event manager in moving and directing guests from area to area
Handing out (and later retrieving) shawls and umbrellas to guests and clients if required
Lighting the fires and keeping them going through an event and stocking the wood baskets
Regularly checking that toilets are provisioned and tidy
Liaising with third party contractors and working partners as directed by the Event Manager e.g. caterers, florists, bands, AV suppliers, fireworks providers, coach drivers
Anything else within reason that the Event Manager requires in order to deliver a five star event.
There is no public transport near Hopetoun, so own transport is essential.

To apply please send over a cover note and CV to events@hopetoun.co.uk

Hopetoun House is one of Scotland’s finest Stately Homes and is managed by the Hopetoun House Preservation Trust. The Trust’s purpose is the preservation and conservation of the house, its contents and immediate grounds together with facilitating public access and making educational use of Hopetoun. Hopetoun currently welcomes around 50,000 visitors per year and is graded as a 5 Star attraction by Visit Scotland.

The Role
We are looking for a Venue Supervisor to join our team and assist our Event Managers with the delivery of luxury events, weddings and functions at Hopetoun House. You must have an outgoing, can-do personality with a passion for excellent customer service and an eye for detail.

The candidate will work alongside our Operations Team in order to deliver private events at Hopetoun. During evening shifts, we will also have security onsite.

Hours of Work and Rate
As this work is dependent on bookings the shifts are determined by the events booked and days of the week can be sporadic, but typically fall on the weekend. We operate private events all year round, however the majority of the shifts will be within the summer months. The candidate would work on a zero-hour contract, though we would expect a minimum of one shift per week at busy periods. The Venue Supervisor would be expected to take over from the Events Manager at approx. 6pm and stay onsite as the venue representative until after midnight (sometimes earlier).

Rate of pay: £12.60 per hour

Zero Hour Contract

Food is also typically (but not always) provided during the shift.

Example shift patterns

Our core requirement is for the Saturday evening events (typically 6pm – 1am), though additional hours may occasionally be available if you wish to take them for midweek evening events, and sometimes for daytime lunches and conferences.

Duties include

Liaising with third party contractors and working partners as directed by the Event Manager e.g. caterers, florists, bands, AV suppliers, fireworks providers, coach drivers
Taking a lead in overseeing removal of conference / wedding ceremony chairs and re-instatement of the tearoom furniture.
Taking a lead in tidying the ballroom after the caterers have removed their tables and chairs so that the Ballroom or Event Area looks perfectly presentable for the next morning
Regularly checking that toilets are provisioned and tidy
Emptying waste bins and a final tidy of the toilets
External tidy up around doorways and in the colonnades
Putting away in-house event equipment (lights, signs, display stands, umbrellas, shawls)
Locking windows and doors, closing shutters and blinds, turning all lights off
Ensuring all keys and in-house radios are returned to their positions
Staying onsite until all clients, staff and external partners are safely offsite
Anything else within reason that the Event Manager requires in order to deliver a five star event.
In addition to working alongside the Catering Manager until the end of the event, a security steward is also there to assist and will remain working alongside the Venue Supervisor until all is closed and locked.

There is no public transport near Hopetoun, so own transport is essential.

To apply please send over a cover note and CV to events@hopetoun.co.uk

You will assist the Events Team in all aspects of developing, planning and delivering events across the Historic Scotland estate, to include attendance at events.

If you are someone with an ability to work on your own initiative and experience of working in a busy, delivery-driven operational team, then this could be a great opportunity for you.