Nevill Holt Festival - Front of House Manager


30th May 2025 – 22nd June 2025
£15.00/hr (plus holiday pay)
Available Contracts: 20-30 hours a week over 4-5 day week (Mondays and Tuesdays off)

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Job Title: Front of House Manager
Department: Front of House
Reports To: Underbelly Operations Manager
Responsible For: Front of House Staff
Rate of Pay: £15.00/hr (plus holiday pay)
Dates of Work:  30th May 2025 – 22nd June 2025
Available Contracts: 20-30 hours a week over 4-5 day week (Mondays, Tuesdays usually off)


The Nevill Holt Festival is an arts and culture festival held in the Leicestershire countryside each June. Building on a decade of opera performances, the festival now includes opera, concerts, conversations, performances, art exhibitions, family events and open gardens.

We're looking for three Front of House Managers to lead our Front of House teams in our three venues at the Nevill Holt Festival; the Opera Theatre, the Spiegeltent and the Chapel.

We encourage applications with any experience - candidates must be able to get to the Nevill Holt Estate for a variety of shift times.


Role

  • Managing all front of house operations
  • Overseeing the setup of front of house areas
  • Managing a small team of front of house staff
  • Shift planning effectively to ensure all staff are happy and enthusiastic about work.
  • Ensure that the team adheres to all H&S legislation and that all mandatory training is completed on time.
  • Dealing first-hand with customer queries and issues, and ensuring they are resolved in an efficient and friendly manner.
  • Accurately inputting payroll information on a daily basis.
  • Completing an end-of-day report to alert the management team of events and issues.

 

Person Specification

  • Confident, enthusiastic, professional and self-motivated.
  • Strong communication skills and leadership skills.
  • Ability to work calmly and efficiently under pressure.
  • Ability to recognise potential health and safety issues before they arise.
  • Demonstratable knowledge of customer service principles.
  • Accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Excellent timekeeping skills.
  • Can do attitude.
  • Sense of urgency.
  • Positive and flexible approach.
  • Ability to work effectively in a team whilst also being able to work independently.

 

Equal Opportunities

Underbelly is committed to reducing its environmental impacts in its everyday operations. We are also committed to maintaining the open-access policy of Underbelly. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all sectors of the community.

It is the policy of Underbelly to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements that cannot be shown to be justifiable.

We expect employees to support these commitments and to assist in their realisation.


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