Refreshment Gardens Colleagues

Part time Refreshment Gardens Colleagues- up to £10/hour, hours to suit April-September

Full or part time Refreshment Gardens Supervisor- £21, 840 pa pro rata, April-September (includes weekends)

Casual bakers- April-September, £70-£80 per week

Our beautiful Refreshment Gardens are opening Tuesday 26 April through to mid-September, for another summer of food, music, and entertainment. We serve a range of hot and cold sandwiches, delicious cakes and bakes, and drinks from our licensed bar. We also have a summer-long programme of music, theatre, and entertainment in the gardens, so whether it’s a beer festival, children’s activities, outdoor Shakespeare, or a classic rock band, there’s always something different going on.

The gardens are open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday April- mid June, and Tuesday-Sunday mid June-September. We can schedule hours and shifts to suit you, but at least one weekend day is preferred. There will also be the possibility of some extra evening work for our outdoor shows.

This isn’t your average café job! Whether you’re preparing hot and cold filled rolls, serving food in our green and leafy gardens, or getting stuck in with outdoor events and shows, the work is varied, active, and a great opportunity to spend the summer outdoors, in a fun and friendly environment, with a huge variety of music and entertainment going on around you.

We’re looking for enthusiastic team-players who are happy to muck in with whatever needs doing. The gardens can be very busy on a sunny weekend, so the ability to keep on smiling in a fast-paced environment is a must. Our staff range from teens to seventy-somethings, and there’s no upper age limit, so long as you’re fit and active enough for an outdoor job with lots of walking.  

You will be working for Settle Victoria Hall Ltd, a community-led registered charity established to preserve and run the world’s oldest music hall as a space for music, arts, entertainment, and community events. Everything we do, we do to keep this little venue thriving and providing a community asset for everyone, and we work under the principles of welcome and celebration of everyone, without prejudice or favour. If you have any additional access or support needs, we would love to hear from you and discuss how we can help you.

Benefits:

·         Fun and friendly environment

·         Paid holidays

·         Uniform provided

·         End-of-season bonus (depending on how well the café does this year)

·         Free tickets to our shows and events (while employed here)

Job descriptions

Refreshment Gardens Colleague

·         Preparing hot and cold filled rolls

·         Serving and preparing hot and cold drinks

·         Setting up and cleaning down the café and kitchen

·         Serving food

·         Serving drinks from our licenced bar (over 18s only)

·         Taking orders and handling payments

·         Pay up to £10/hour (depending on age), plus bonus.

Refreshment Gardens Supervisor

·         Preferably full time, Friday to Tuesday

·         Four days café work as above, plus Mondays to schedule staff, order deliveries, and prepare for the week.

·         Supervising café staff to ensure that standards are met, the café is run smoothly and efficiently, and the kitchen and café are left clean and tidy at the end of shifts.

·         £21,840 pa pro rata

Refreshment Gardens Bakers

·         Roughly eight hours of baking cakes and traybakes per week for sale in the cafe

·         Either bake in our kitchen on a Monday, or from home at times to suit you

·         Deliver baking to Victoria Hall once or twice a week

·         £70/80 per week

To apply or for more information about any of these positions, call 01729 825718, email ann.harding@settlevictoriahall.org.uk, or message us with your contact details.

Marketing Assistant (Digital and Physical)

Fixed term (six months, with possible opportunity to extend). Fourteen hours per week (can be made up to full time with cafe work). £15,000-£20,000 pa pro rata, depending on experience.

This is an exciting opportunity for an early-career marketing assistant or recent graduate to assist with the marketing and promotion of Settle Victoria Hall, its shows and events, the Refreshment Gardens and Emporium, and our other activities and projects.

Settle Victoria Hall is the world’s oldest Music Hall, a registered charity and social enterprise with an incredibly busy programme of music, theatre, cinema, and community events. Settle Victoria Hall also incorporates Miss Victoria’s Refreshment Gardens, an outdoor café and performance space running April-September, and Miss Victoria’s Emporium, our fundraising charity shop. We are community-led, and passionate about keeping our historic venue alive, thriving, and serving the community of Settle and beyond.

We are looking for someone who really understands who we are and what we do at Victoria Hall, and is as excited as we are to tell the world about this amazing little venue, its historical significance, and the role that it plays, both as an arts venue and a community asset.

You will work within the Victoria Hall and Miss Victoria branding to develop our audience and promote everything we do, including through social media, our website and email newsletter, and through other online and physical platforms. You will also be responsible for obtaining, creating, and ordering physical marketing materials, including flyers, posters, and our what’s on brochure.

You will work as part of a small team, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and Administration Manager, with a team of volunteers, and you will also work with the Refreshment Gardens and Emporium teams to develop branding and promotional guidelines.

You will be working for Settle Victoria Hall Ltd, a community-led registered charity established to preserve and run the world’s oldest music hall as a space for music, arts, entertainment, and community events. Everything we do, we do to keep this little venue thriving and providing a community asset for everyone, and we work under the principles of welcome and celebration of everyone, without prejudice or favour. If you have any additional access or support needs, we would love to hear from you and discuss how we can help you.

This is a six-month position, beginning asap (although we can be flexible for the right candidate). If successful, there may be an opportunity to extend the contract after six months. Please send a CV and between two and four examples of marketing materials you have produced for for professional, personal, or training purposes to ann.harding@settlevictoriahall.org.uk.

Application deadline Thursday 21 April.