Assistant Centre Manager (Thorndon) 30hrs per week

The Nature Discovery Centre offers an opportunity to discover the wildlife within the park whilst enjoying refreshments and a gift shop, run by a friendly team and wonderful volunteers who are passionate about providing fantastic customer service. As the Assistant Centre Manager, the post holder will work closely with the Centre Manager to deliver the day-to-day operations (retail, food and beverage, compliance and events), supervising staff and volunteers and interacting with guests to ensure an engaging visitor experience.

It is essential that the post holder has front-facing retail and/or hospitality experience, self-motivated, has a 'can-do' attitude and willingness to support team members both front and back of house. In this role, the successful candidate will thrive on providing a welcoming visitor experience in a customer-facing environment with strong people skills, a welcoming predisposition and good attention to detail. A full job description can be found in the 'role information pack'., Disability Confident
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We are looking for an Assistant Centre Manager at our Thorndon Nature Discovery Centre, located near Brentwood.

Constructed just after the 1987 hurricane from the fallen onsite timber, our Nature Discovery Centre at Thorndon is our most popular Centre with over 130,000 visitors annually visiting the park and is also home to the well-attended Gruffalo trail. The site offers a variety of habitats including ancient woodland, parkland, ponds, a marsh and meadow with stunning ancient trees including Giant Oak and Hornbeam pollards, parts of the site used to be heathland, now a scarce habitat in Essex, and to restore it parts of the park, both north and south, are being grazed by goats and sheep., Essex Wildlife Trust is the county's leading conservation charity, committed to protecting wildlife and inspiring a lifelong love of nature; and we would love you to join our committed and enthusiastic team. Our values are Impactful, Collaborative, United and Proactive.

This is a two-year fixed-term position working 30 hours per week, four out of seven days between Monday and Sunday all year-round including weekends and bank holidays. The rota working arrangements provides every other weekend off. The starting salary is £19,232.80 per annum (FTE £24,041.00).