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Join our team at the National Memorial Arboretum as a Visitor Services Assistant, where you’ll play a key role in creating a warm and welcoming experience for all visitors. As the first point of contact, you’ll provide friendly and professional customer service, ensuring that every guest gets the most out of their visit. Whether guiding visitors at the welcome desk, assisting volunteers, or offering helpful advice, your role will be vital in maintaining our reputation for excellence.
The Arboretum is the UK’s dedicated year-round centre of Remembrance and is part of the Royal British Legion. At its core, the Royal British Legion is a people-focused organisation. It’s made up of individuals who are committed to doing their very best for others, while also making the most of the opportunities and experiences we provide.
This is a customer-facing role where no two days are the same. You’ll be supporting the welcome desk team, answering visitor enquiries, and responding to feedback with care and professionalism. You’ll also help to promote activities such as guided tours, events, and donations, all of which contribute to the Arboretum’s continued success. A good knowledge of the site and its operations will be key, allowing you to share insights and enhance the visitor experience.
We’re looking for someone with excellent communication skills, a passion for delivering great customer service, and the ability to stay calm under pressure. Experience in retail, hospitality, or a similar customer-focused environment would be an advantage. This role also involves operating tills, handling cash and card transactions, and upselling visitor services to help generate income.
If you enjoy working with people and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Please note that this role will be based onsite at the National Memorial Arboretum, Burton-on-Trent DE13 7AR. This is a causal contract so will be 0 hours with flexibility to work over 7 days.
Employee benefits include -
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Pension scheme subject to eligibility
- You are entitled to 28 days’ holiday per holiday year, including bank and public holidays. Your entitlement will be calculated on a pro rata basis, depending on the number of hours that you work.
- Annual leave should be used in the year it is accrued.
- Uniform will be provided (where applicable).
About the National Memorial Arboretum
The Arboretum is the UK’s leading year-round centre of Remembrance and a proud part of the Royal British Legion. Spread across 150 acres, it is home to more than 350 memorials, including the nationally significant Armed Forces Memorial, paying tribute to the service and sacrifice of those who have served and continue to serve our country. The site is also filled with around 30,000 maturing trees and a wealth of wildlife, making it a beautiful and peaceful place to reflect. Each year, the Arboretum attracts around 300,000 visitors, many of whom attend over 200 events held throughout the year.
In March 2017, the National Memorial Arboretum opened its new award-winning Remembrance Centre, offering an even more powerful and immersive experience for all those who visit. This truly is a special place – a living memorial that honours the dedication and sacrifice of our Armed Forces community.
For more detailed information about the role, please see our Vacancy Information Pack attached to our direct advert.
National Memorial Arboretum is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive organisation, reflecting the diversity of the armed forces community and of wider society. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and personal characteristics.
We may close this vacancy early if we believe we have enough strong applications to be able to successfully fill the role(s). Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
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Since 1962 the National Autistic Society has been campaigning to transform lives, change attitudes and create a society that works for autistic people. In National Programmes we champion the rights and interests of autistic people and their families, making sure national policy and legislation to reflect their needs. We provide autism training and best practice services and want all autistic people to have access to services and support that fully meet their needs. We provide diagnostic services, training, accreditation, consultancy and conferences, designed to support all professionals and organisations.
Who we are looking for:
- A Customer Relations and Sales Officer to work as part of a centralised sales team, which leads all Autism Know How sales, logistic and customer support enquiries.
- Managing all aspects of the customer sales journey, this role will lead and deliver an effective, timely and professional customer journey and experience, maximising income potential and repeat business to ensure performance against team sales targets and to enable the society to continue to improve its offering for autistic people.
- This role will work closely with colleagues across Autism Know How, Marketing, CRM and Business Development departments, and other relevant NAS teams where required.
- This role will also deliver general administration and data processing as required.
- This is a full-time position for 35 hours per week. The salary for this position is £25,617.80 per annum.
What we can offer you:
- Auto-enrolled Pension Scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Excellent induction, training and development programme including training about autism and opportunities to attend our conferences
- Online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits such as cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan & shopping discounts for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple and loads more!
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- Life Assurance at 2 x base salary
- A portfolio of fantastic new salary sacrifices benefits and other flexible benefits private health, dental insurance, car salary sacrifice scheme, activity pass, holiday trading, enhanced pension & salary deduct loans (eligibility criteria may apply)
- Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme & counselling programme
- Free access to the Headspace App – a global leader in mindfulness and you can enrol up to three friends or family for free!
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card
Where you will be working: Homebased, with occasional travel when required.
About our application process:
To apply for this role please click the Apply button below.
As part of your application, you must provide a supporting statement that outlines your suitability and experience for the position. This statement should refer to the job description and person specification, and clearly demonstrate how you meet the requirements for the role.
Your supporting statement should specifically address the following three questions:
- The role requires extensive administration experience and use of different systems at the same time. Can you please outline your administration experience and systems you have used in previous employment?
- The Customer Relations and Sales Officer role is very fast paced, and you will be having meetings with customers/colleagues and responding to many emails each day. Could you please give an example of when you have had to use your time management, prioritisation and multitasking skills?
- The role is a remote role which requires substantial self-discipline and lone working. Can you outline your experience in this and how you effectively managed your workload?
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
For some roles, successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks which will include additional references and criminal background checks.
Applications for this job are sought from anyone who is suitably qualified and experienced for the role but particularly welcome from those with a diagnosis of autism.
The National Autistic Society is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and adults who use our services and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks.
We are an equal opportunities employer.