Visitor Experience Assistant We are looking for enthusiastic, passionate team members who understand and are committed to providing customer service excellence and puts the visitor at the centre of everything they do. The ideal candidate will have previous visitor facing experience ideally in a leisure or heritage environment. You will need to be a confident communicator, a team player and be able to respond quickly and positively in a changing environment. Being flexible in your outlook is essential as you will be fulfilling a variety of roles at the museum. You will also support the museum in hosting evening events from gala dinners to sleepovers and outdoor film nights. An understanding of the importance of supporting and fulfilling a 'host' role for corporate clients and Museum partners is desirable. As a Visitor Experience Assistant, you will have a variety of roles which will include: Proactive response to ensuring the highest possible visitor standards are maintained. These are permanent, part-time roles working 1250 hours annually. The working hours each week will be dependent on business requirements (maximum 35 hours per week during peak season and minimum 4 hours per week during off-peak season). You will work a flexible pattern which will include working some weekends, bank holidays and occasional evening/overnights. The roles will be based at our London site. Willingness and ability to hold a First Aid qualification. Provide high standards of pro-active and re-active customer care, providing a warm welcome to all our visitors. Enrich the visitor experience by pro-actively sharing your knowledge of the Museum and its collection and stories, with our visitors. Regularly monitor the condition and cleanliness of front of house facilities, taking corrective action and/or reporting issues, as appropriate. Support in the management of volunteers working on front of house activities. Support commercial and fundraising activities, including undertaking collections. Understand the Museum's commercial activities, products and offers, and promote these to our visitors. Discretely and sensitively safeguard the security of visitors, colleagues and Museum assets, responding to heightened incident measures as appropriate, in line with Museum policy and procedures. Monitor and report defects associated with the Museum's facilities, exhibits and/or interpretation. • Please download the full job description on our website at: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/about-us/job-vacancies/visitor-experience-assistant-annualised-1250-hours-5/ • Please click on the following link to apply for this role. You will be taken to our applicant tracking system: https://royalairforcemuseum.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=a0ca996c-533b-4b0e-964d-4a8cc6bfd598 • Closing date for applications: 9 November 2025 • Interviews will take place on: 19 and 20 November 2025Job Summary
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Permanent
Part-time - Annualised: 1250 hours
London
£17,315.28 per annum
Providing a warm welcome to our visitors and enhancing every visitor's experience at the museum through your engagement with them and your problem-solving skills.
Supporting activities, events, general museum operations and processing visitor bookings at admissions.
Promoting and selling museum guidebooks, services, commercial activities, and events to visitors.
Supporting the museum's fundraising and commercial activities.
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