Senior Museum and Visitor Services Officer

Senior Museums and Visitors Services Officer - Southsea Castle

Salary: Band: 7, £27,852 - £32,020 p.a.

37 hours per week.

Fixed term contract until 30.4.2024.

Your New Role

Portsmouth Museums are looking for a dynamic, experienced individual to join the team at Southsea Castle.

This is an exciting and varied role managing Southsea Castle as a visitor attraction and ensuring an excellent experience for all wedding and celebratory event bookings throughout the year.

What you'll need to succeed

The right person will have experience in managing weddings or similar high-profile events. Attention to detail is key to ensure events are delivered to an exceptional standard and the role is likely to require some evening work to facilitate this.  

Southsea Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, you will need to have experience of managing a heritage site or similar, to include key holding, leading a team, managing building issues etc.

The role is offered initially until 30.4.24 on a fixed term contract, working 37 hours a week, Tuesday to Saturday plus some evenings and bank holidays.

For full details please view the job profile, please make sure you outline how you meet the criteria we are looking for, if you just send in a CV you may not be shortlisted.  

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role  

What you'll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme 
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/

Application process:

Please read the full job profile (click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points in the profile with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is important, or you are likely not to be shortlisted.  Please read alongside the 'How to apply' information on the home page of the careers website.  PLEASE DO NOT JUST SUBMIT A CV.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

Closing date: 29 May 2023 @ 23:59 pm

Applications received after this may not be considered.

This post is open to applications from both external and internal candidates.

If internal and applying as a secondment you will need permission from your current line manager releasing you for this secondment.  Please state you have this on your application form.

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.

 Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk