Position details
Commitment:
WeekdaysFrequency:
WeeklyYou’ll be part of a team supporting a Shropshire-based environmental charity.
This role involves:
- Staffing our reception desk and shop at Shropshire Wildlife Trust Headquarters and Visitor Centre.
- Welcoming people, signposting them to meeting rooms, answering the telephone.
- Assisting the public with enquiries over the phone and in person.
- Room hire support and hospitality.
- Assisting with maintaining the displays and stock in the shop.
- Assisting with merchandising and processing shop sales.
- Membership recruitment.
- Housekeeping, maintaining the standards and cleanliness of the centre.
Existing skills and experience requirements:
- Reception, customer service and using the telephone.
- Retail, using a till and cash handling.
- Friendly, outgoing personality.
- Reliable.
- Happy to carry out a variety of tasks.
Skills development offered:
- Telephone skills.
- Cash handling.
- Wildlife knowledge.
- Retail and hospitality.
- Public engagement.
More information:
- You will be expected to comply with our Safeguarding policy and procedures and our Volunteer Code of Conduct.
- The position requires 2 satisfactory references from a previous recent employer or similar.
- You’ll be signed up as a volunteer and receive our quarterly newsletter plus invitations to social events and training.
To make an enquiry about this role, please contact us, using the form below.
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Contact details
Lizzie Stuart, Visitor Centre manager
Tel: 01743 284 280