Seasonal Assistant - Oxford, United Kingdom - Lady Margaret Hall

Lady Margaret Hall
Lady Margaret Hall
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Oxford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Main Purpose of Job:


  • To work with our existing college teams as they prepare for and deliver services for internal and commercial events._ _The role is practical and site based in the College. Our teams work literally around the clock 7 days a week, but we expect working times for this role to be between 7am and 9pm, usually 5 days out of 7, working with different teams in different areas of the college on a daily basis.

Relationships:


Responsible to:

Seasonal Team Manager as Line Manager, Department Heads when working in their department
Liaison with:Department heads, supervisors and staff in our Catering, Conference, Housekeeping and Lodge team, other members of colleges staff, conference and summer school clients, other visitors to college and students.

Main Tasks

  • Setting up and serving meals and other catering events
  • Working in our main kitchens
  • Preparing and cleaning bedrooms and assisting with linen and other consumables management and transportation
  • Site logistics, moving equipment and furniture as use of the college changes through the summer
  • Setting Conference Rooms up with tables and chairs and AV equipment such as big screens, projectors and laptops
  • Supporting customers with meeting and technical set ups, ensuring equipment is working and customers are familiar with how to use it
  • Showing guests around the site, meeting on arrival etc
  • Event and team administration to assist planning and delivery of booked services
  • Assisting the maintenance team with routine tasks
  • Reduce the College's direct environmental and social impact and improve the sustainability of our operation
  • The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the Colleges organisation and the overall objectives of Lady Margaret Hall.
Person Specification


General:


Aptitude and approach

  • Essential:
  • Reliable and focused on quality.
  • A good eye for visual details.
  • Handson. Willing to do whatever is needed to get the job done.
  • Caring about the customer experience.
  • Calm under pressure.
  • Friendly, approachable, cooperative, very much a team player
  • Flexible approach to working hours. Able and willing to work weekends, and undertake early starts or late finishes as required.

Skills and knowledge

  • Essential:
  • Good English literacy and verbal skills, able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.
  • Physical fitness for moving furniture around the site. Able to set up Conference Rooms from concept to completion.

Previous experience

  • Desirable:
  • Experience of working with a wide range of people in a busy customer-facing, service-orientated environment, ideally with an events focus.

Qualifications

  • Essential:
  • Educated to GCSE level standard or equivalent.
  • Eligible to live and work in the UK.
Terms and Conditions

  • Fixed term post between June and September 202
  • Hours of work are 30 per week, working 5 days out of 7 including weekends and some early morning and late evening work.
  • The hourly rate is £12.49 per hour.
  • Uniform is provided.
  • All staff are entitled to a complimentary meal for each shift work.
  • Generous paid annual leave allowance of 36 days per annum (FTE).
  • A principal aim of this College's Equal Opportunities Policy is to ensure that in the recruitment, selection, training, appraisal, development and promotion of employees, the only consideration must be that the individual best meets, or is likely to meet, the requirements of the programme or course or post.
  • Lady Margaret Hall is committed to provide a learning, working and social environment in which the rights and dignity of all its members are respected, and which is free from prejudice, intimidation and all forms of harassment, including bullying. We seek to ensure that noone suffers, either directly or indirectly, as a result of discrimination.
  • Lady Margaret Hall has a range of family friendly policies.
  • Issued by the HR Office
  • May 2024About LMH
LMH began with nine women and is now a vibrant academic community transforming the lives of hundreds of students. We are diverse, open, intellectually curious and pioneering. We continue to break boundaries as the first Oxford College to establish a Foundation Year for under-represented students.


Department
Operations


Employment Type
Seasonal - Part Time


Location
Oxford


Workplace type
Onsite


Compensation
£12.49 / hour
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