Job vacancies at Wildwood

 

Job vacancies at Wildwood

 

We have 2 new vacancies at Wildwood - to see all of our current vacancies and to apply please visit www.wildwoodtrust.org

 

 

Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive

 

Job Title:              Personal Assistant to Chief Executive

Function:             Support the Chief Executive

Responsible to:   Chief Executive

Salary:                 £17,370 to £22,195 + generous pension & other benefits

 

This new role is to support the administrative demands on our Chief Executive in a fast growing charity. To provide an efficient and responsive administrative, organisational, and logistical service to the Chief Executive, helping him to manage and prioritise his time and perform secretarial duties. We are looking for someone with exceptional enthusiasm, excellent typing and written English skills and a commitment to wildlife conservation. Due to the CEO's dyslexia, proofreading, dictation and audio typing will be a high proportion of the duties.

 

This exciting opportunity will ideally suit someone with a confident, optimistic approach.  The ideal candidate will be proficient in keyboard and IT applications with excellent written English skills and demonstrable experience in an administration/executive assistant/PA role.

 

Job Overview

• Manage and maintain the CEO's diary and email accounts. Filter emails, highlight urgent correspondence and respond to routine enquiries.
• Audio typing, dictation & proof reading for the CEO's press releases, news articles and blog posts, including articles for scientific journals and book projects. (our current CEO is dyslexic and the post holder will be expected to correct his written work and bring it up to an excellent standard)
• Schedule on behalf of the CEO meetings between him and his direct reporting staff, record key decisions and chase them up on the implantation of those decisions
• Filter general information, queries, phone calls, press enquiries and media invitations to the CEO by redirecting or taking forward such contact as appropriate and learning from the CEO what his priorities are.
• Keep and maintain an accurate record of papers and electronic correspondence on behalf of the CEO.
• Prepare correspondence on behalf of the CEO, including the drafting of general replies.
• Minute general and board meetings as required
• Complete research, contact lists generation on behalf of the CEO, including event organisation.
• Ensure guests meeting with the CEO are well taken care of.
• Assist the CEO in day to day office duties, cleaning his desk and tidying up after his technology and office IT projects

 How to apply

 

Click here visit our website to download and read the full job specification.

 

Application is by C.V. and must contain the following information:

• Name, address, contact phone numbers at home and work (for discreet calls only)
• Employment history
• Educational history

 

You should include a statement of the relevant skills and experience that you believe you will bring to the job, paying careful attention to the requirements of the job outlined in the job specification. You should give two referees to whom we can turn for a confidential reference, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer.  References will only be taken up for those candidates chosen for interview or, with regard to current employer, on offer of contract.

 

Applications will not normally be acknowledged.  If you would like yours to be acknowledged, please enclose a stamped, self addressed postcard.

 

Applications should be sent to Wildwood Trust, Herne Common, Herne Bay, Kent, CT6 7LQ. 

 

Email: claire@wildwoodtrust.org

 

The closing date for applications is 17th October 2011

 

Cafe Manager

 

Job Title:                  Café Manager

Function:                  Run the Beaver Lodge Café

Salary:                      up to £23,000 (9% pension & other benefits)

Responsible to:        Chief Executive

Responsible for:       Café assistants, Seasonal and casual staff

 

 

Wildwood requires a hardworking, hands on manager for our Beaver Lodge Café, ensuring that it operates efficiently and profitably, while maintaining Wildwood's reputation and ethos.

 

The Beaver Lodge café is an attractive log cabin style building situated at the heart of wildwood. It consists of an 80 seat café and veranda. It has a large kiosk and about 20 picnic tables attractively scattered around woodland and overlooking the adventure playground. Wildwood attracts 100,000 visitors a year and has a membership of 47,000 individuals. The café can expect to cater for between 300 and 600 on Sundays and school holidays and around 50 to 100 during other times. As a visitor centre there are surges of demand from midday till 2.30pm.  

 

The successful candidate will hold a recognised qualification in Catering and food hygiene, along with 5 years relevant experience in the catering industry and be able to demonstrate that they can meet the demands of our customers efficiently whilst leading from the front.

 

Job Overview

 

• Serving good food to our customers in a timely fashion.
• Organising, leading and motivating the Café team.
• Planning menus.
• Budgeting and establishing financial targets and forecasts.
• Monitoring the quality of the product and service provided.
• Keeping financial and administrative records.
• Managing the timesheets and monitoring spending levels.
• Maintaining stock levels and ordering new supplies as required.
• Liaising with suppliers and clients.
• Setting and agreeing budgets.
• Monitoring quality standards.
• Overseeing the management of facilities, e.g. checking event bookings and allocation of resources/staff.
• Planning new promotions and initiatives, and contributing to business development;
• Dealing with staffing and client issues.
• Keeping abreast of trends and developments in the industry such as menus, trends in consumer tastes and management issues.

How to apply

 

Click here visit our website to download and read the full job specification.

 

Application is by C.V. and must contain the following information:

• Name, address & contact phone numbers at home and work (for discreet calls only)
• Employment history
• Educational history

 

You should include a statement of the relevant skills and experience that you believe you will bring to the job, paying careful attention to the requirements of the job outlined in the job specifiation.

 

You should give two referees to whom we can turn for a confidential reference, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer.  References will only be taken up for those candidates chosen for interview or, with regard to current employer, on offer of contract.

 

Applications will not normally be acknowledged.  If you would like yours to be acknowledged, please enclose a stamped, self addressed postcard.

 

Applications should be sent to Wildwood Trust , Herne Common, Herne Bay, Kent, CT6 7LQ.

 

Email: claire@wildwoodtrust.org

 

Short listed interviewees will be expected to visit Wildwood for one half day consisting of shadowing one of the Café Team and a formal interview with senior staff.

 

The closing date for applications is 24th October 2011

 

 

The Wildwood team

Tel 01227 712 111