This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the historic houses team as Senior Visitor Experience Officer at the London Borough of Hounslow's two historic houses, Hogarth's House and Boston Manor House. This role will lead the Visitor experience team ensuring a welcoming and engaging experience for visitors while organising their team to support public programming, hires and caring for the buildings. The role will also manage the workloads of volunteers with front of house responsibilities, co-ordinate with the Volunteer Manager and work with colleagues to ensure training and development opportunities are in place to support the development of staff and volunteers alike.
About The Team You'll Be Working In
This role sits within the Culture Team as part of the historic houses sub team. The historic houses team manage the two London Borough of Hounslow's two owned and operated historic houses, Boston Manor House and Hogarth's House. This team is responsible for the care of these buildings and their collections as well as the public programmes for each site.
This role reports directly to the Historic Houses Senior Manager, the head of the historic houses team.
- A self-motivated, strong leader who sets tone and pace using excellent communication and influencing skills.
- Experience of managing and developing staff and volunteer teams.
- Extensive experience of successfully coordinating the visitor offer with a range of diverse departments and stakeholders.
- Experience of researching, implementing and reviewing visitor operation improvements.
- Experience of facilitating and supervising maintenance work.
About us at Hounslow
We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
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Visitor Experience Officer employer: London Borough of Hounslow
The Heathland School in Hounslow is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive work culture that values collaboration and professional growth. Employees benefit from a dynamic environment where they can develop their skills while contributing to the educational success of students. With a focus on meaningful work and community engagement, this role as Executive PA to the Headteacher provides a unique opportunity to make a significant impact within the school.
Contact Details:
London Borough of Hounslow Recruitment Team
