AddressCeremonies Assistant
Portfolio: Neighbourhoods, Parks & Countryside
Hours: as required/available (often at weekends during the spring and summer period)
Location: Various including Weston Park, Ecclesall Woods and the Botanical Gardens
Grade 3 - £ 12.18/hour (enhancements are paid for weekend work and antisocial hours) – this is equivalent to a salary of £23,500/year.
Contract Type: Casual.
Sheffield is one of the UK's greenest cities and becoming increasingly known as the Outdoor City. Sheffield City Council’s Parks and Countryside service manage over 4130 Hectares of green space across 752 sites including a number of beautiful ceremonies venues.
For couples or families searching for somewhere to have an indoor or outdoor ceremonies in Sheffield, our beautiful parks, woodlands and green spaces are hard to beat.
We are currently recruiting for Ceremonies Assistants, to support the delivery of ceremonies currently at Sheffield’s beautiful Botanical Gardens, Weston Park and Ecclesall Woods.
Ensuring the services, we provide for couples who have chosen a Parks and Countryside venue as the location for their special day, are as high quality, professional and effective as possible, is a key focus of this role.
Duties will include ensuring the smooth, effective running of ceremonies, ensuring excellent customer care and being the key point of contact during the events. This could include; supervising the use of any pavilion or building, including implementing security arrangements, consulting and liaising with key stakeholders on the day and assisting in the co-ordination of the provision of any resources and equipment required at each event/ceremony also ensuring venue re-instatement following each event/ceremony.
The post will require regular weekend work due to the nature of the service, particularly during Spring and Summer months although not exclusively.
To carry out this role, you will have excellent people skills, enjoy working in a fast-paced event setting. You will need to be an excellent communicator, have good organisation skills and the ability to communicate with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
This role sits within the Parks and Countryside Service so joins a progressive and dedicated Team. Making our services more efficient and effective and reducing our expenditure through increased income opportunities will be critical over the coming years, making the contribution from this role key for the service and the users of our green spaces.
Details about the Parks and Countryside Service are available on the Council’s internet pages: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/parks-sport-recreation/parks-countryside-service.html.
Our team are proud to work for Sheffield, making our Parks, Green Spaces and Woodlands the best they can be for people to enjoy now and for many years to come! Would you like to a Our team are proud to work for Sheffield, making our Parks, Green Spaces and Woodlands the best they can be for people to enjoy now and for many years to come! Would you like to a part of this team!? If the answer is yes, then please visit our website to download the application form.
Should you wish to talk to anyone about the post please contact:
Dave Rice on 07805 022670 or via e-mail on dave.rice@sheffield.gov.uk , please enter JOB Enquiry as the subject of your e-mail.
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
