• Are you looking for volunteer roles ?

    Go to volunteering section

40

Arts, Culture, Heritage Jobs

Job Alerts On

No alerts left

Get job alerts sent straight to your inbox.

*Please enter a valid email

You haven't selected any filters. To create a tailored job alert, select your filters first.

Oh no!

By clicking 'Create alert' you agree to the Terms and Conditions applicable to our service and acknowledge that your personal data will be used in accordance with our Privacy and Cookie Policy and you will receive emails and communications about jobs and career related topics.

You will now get the latest from this search sent to your inbox.

Verify your email address and start receiving the latest job recommendations. Sign in or create an account to start managing your alerts.

A job alert for this search or a similar search term already exists. You can manage your job alerts by clicking here:

Top job
The Exchange, Erith (On-site)
£18,900 per year
Seeking an experienced, talented and driven individual to maximise venue hire income for our beautiful, versatile Grade-II listed building.
Posted today
Top job
Artswork, Remote
£22,800 per year
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced person to join the team at Artswork Professional Team.
Posted 2 days ago
Top job
Community Arts by ZK, Nelson, Lancashire (On-site)
£30,000 per year FTE
Seeking an individual who will be responsible for the development and delivery of creative programmes and projects as agreed with CEO.
Posted 3 days ago Quick Apply
Top job
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (On-site)
£34,000 - £37,500 per year
The ICA is seeking a Talks & Engagement Producer to join us at an exciting moment of strategic change in our Learning & Engagement programme
Posted 6 days ago
The British Museum, London (Hybrid)
£33,368 per year
Posted today
Allen Lane Interim & Permanent Recruitment, Central London (Hybrid)
£60,000 - £65,000 per year
Posted 1 day ago Quick Apply
IRIS -Networx Services, London (Hybrid)
£60,268 per year including London Weighting rising incrementally to £62,382 per annum
Posted 1 day ago
Royal Air Force Museum, Midlands (On-site)
£7368.05-£7368.05 per year
Posted 2 days ago
Heritage of London Trust, London (Hybrid)
£55,000 per year
Posted 5 days ago
Page 1 of 3
Erith, Greater London (On-site)
£18,900 per year
Part-time (21 hours/3 days)
Permanent
Job description

About the role

The Exchange is seeking an experienced, talented and driven Venue Hire Manager to maximise venue hire income for The Exchange with responsibility for all aspects of hire events.

Situated in the Thames-side town of Erith, The Exchange is dedicated to creating opportunities for people to come together and celebrate life, craft, and community. Ideally located on the border of London and Kent, The Exchange is a perfect venue to attract guests, offering them something unique and memorable in intimate and unique surroundings. This includes the newly renovated “Exchange Town Square” and the beautiful garden designed by award-winning garden designer Sarah Price.

Our aspiration is to develop a craft focused venue hire programme, where every detail has been carefully thought through, leading to unique and inspirational experiences – this will be the role of the new Venue Hire Manager.

Principle Duties:

  • Venue Hire Management: Lead for all hire enquiries and bookings from initial conversations through to event delivery and after-care.
  • Sales and Business Development: Proactively drive venue hire sales, convert enquiries, and reach budgeted targets, working to develop opportunities with current, returning, and prospective clients. To be conversant with the wider sector, benchmarking against competitor spaces, engaged with external networks and leading on venue hire promotion and marketing opportunities.
  • Administration: lead and maintain all enquiries and bookings, communication with internal colleagues to optimise event delivery before, during and after, and develop and maintain accurate monitoring and evaluation reporting.
  • Customer Service: provide exceptional service to all event hirers and suppliers with a professional, efficient, and welcoming attitude.

Responsibilities:

  • Proactively research and reach-out to new business hire opportunities, exploring new creative opportunities to optimise use of the building and garden, regularly benchmarking The Exchange pricing and proposition.
  • Promoting the location through a variety of marketing channels such as social media.
  • Responsibility for all venue hires from enquiry to bookings to on-the-day and after care. This includes supervision and scheduling of duty managers, tending to any incidents or queries, liaising with catering services and supervising their requirements and logistics, building security.
  • Negotiate and agree venue hire events including final contracts, invoicing, and scheduling.
  • Ensure excellent communication with all colleagues to ensure smooth event procedures and positive client outcomes, including cleaning and organising the venue and facilities pre and post event.
  • Develop and maintain systems for monitoring, analysis, and evaluation of hire events in context of budget targets and for improving customer service and repeat business.
  • Establish best practice procedures and protocol for wide range of clients e.g. private, corporate, charity.
  • Develop excellent supplier relationships e.g. event planners, caterers, local companies – to build and promote opportunities to hire spaces and develop a beneficial ‘approved suppliers’ list.
  • Operating within rigorous H&S and security frameworks, including taking responsibility for opening and locking up, final building checks.

Personal specification:

Essential:

  • Experience of developing pro-active sales leads, and up-selling additional opportunities utilising knowledge of marketing channels and techniques.
  • Evidence of excellent customer service and experience of dealing with challenging and complex events.
  • Motivated with an eye for detail and a desire to achieve high standards.
  • Sound knowledge of security and safety measures and risk management strategies.
  • Confident, calm approach to working within a high-pressured, busy environment balancing multiple demands.
  • Excellent communication, listening, diplomacy and problem-solving skills.
  • Evidence of positive and effective working with inter-departmental teams to achieve shared objectives.
  • High level of written and verbal English communication skills.
  • Strong negotiation skills both financial and verbal.
  • Highly organised with initiative and strong time management efficiency.
  • Ability to work flexible hours dependent on events bookings and the needs of the operation.
  • The right to live and work in the United Kingdom.

Desirable:

  • Working in an arts and culture / community / heritage venue environment.

Deadline for applications: Sunday 05 May

Interviews scheduled for: Wednesday 08 May

Posted by
The Exchange, Erith View profile Company size Size: 11 - 20

Our mission is to reinvigorate the Old Library in Erith as a community-built space and create a centre for craft, opportunity and local growth.

Posted on: 24 April 2024
Closing date: 06 May 2024 at 00:30
Job ref: tex.vhm.cj
Tags: Communications, PR,Management,Business Development

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.