Weekend Front of House Volunteers
The Brunel Museum is dedicated to the Thames Tunnel – one of the greatest Victorian engineering achievements and the first successful underwater tunnel in the world. Our volunteers are crucial to the Museum’s success and to ensuring visitors have an enjoyable and interesting experience. They lead on welcoming visitors, helping with their enquiries, selling tickets and showing them the exciting products on offer in our shop.
This is a unique opportunity to gain meaningful, developmental experience to further explore your interest in the arts, while exploring what a career in the sector might look like. We’ll provide training in using the Museum’s systems, in Gift Aid, and in engaging visitors.
Help us build our visitor welcome, all while gaining practical experience within an accredited Museum!
Your duties will include:
- Selling tickets and merchandise
- Welcoming visitors and helping with enquiries about the Museum
- Raising awareness of the value of Gift Aid to the Museum
Conditions
This is a flexible role that can be flexed to fit around what you’ve got going on. However, we’re really looking for people who are available on Saturdays and/or Sundays.
Please specify your availability in your application
What we can offer:
- A friendly, supportive environment and an opportunity to learn about the Brunels and the Thames Tunnel (no prior knowledge required)
- An award-winning team of volunteers
- Volunteer buddy system with existing volunteers welcoming and supporting new volunteers in their roles
- Training opportunities through attending external courses and receiving in-house training relevant to your role
- Volunteers get-togethers and thank you events
- Flexibility and volunteer shifts to suit your availability
- Opportunities to share your views and provide suggestions / input.
- An occasion to give back to the community
- Valuable experience at an accredited museum for your career development
Any questions should be directed to the Collections Access Coordinator, Jack Hayes, in the first instance, via hello@thebrunelmuseum.com
Deadline: Please send a CV and cover letter to hello@thebrunelmuseum.com by 22 November 2024.
The Brunel Museum, Railway Avenue, London, SE16 4LF
Please note that The Brunel Museum is committed to equal opportunities in employment and ensuring that no one is denied opportunities or discriminated against through prejudice or exclusion due to characteristics protected under the Equality Act. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service and appropriate references.
If you have a disability which means you are unable to meet some of the job requirements, specifically because of your disability, please address this in your application. If you meet all the other criteria, you will be short-listed and we will explore jointly with you if there are ways in which the job can be changed to enable you to meet the requirements.
The Brunel Museum’s Charitable Objects:
- To preserve and encourage the preservation for the public benefit of the Engine House situated in Rotherhithe Street, Greater London and the precincts thereof by such means as may be necessary.
- To educate the public in the appreciation of the engineering works of Marc and Isambard Brunel, particularly the construction of the Thames Tunnel, and to publish and catalogue, leaflet or other material in connection herewith; and
- To provide a recreational facility for local residents and for the public at large at Rotherhithe and, subject thereto, to generally enhance the surrounding conservation area.
The Brunel Museum’s 6 Strategic Aims 2019- 2024
- We will put place-making at the heart of Brunel’s London story.
- We will interpret broadly the many stories of our buildings and our collection.
- We will bring more people to Brunel’s story and legacy.
- We will help to inspire a new generation of engineers.
- We will encourage growth and sustainability through commercial prowess.
- We will ensure effective governance and administration.