Box Office Supervisors, Edinburgh Science Festival 2025


Pay: £13.70 per hour
Work Hours: Full-time
Duration: Temporary, Fixed-term contract, 7 January – 25 April 2025
Start: 7 January 2025
Work Location: Edinburgh

We are seeking Box Office Supervisors to join our team for our upcoming Edinburgh Science Festival 2025.

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About the Role:

This role is crucial in ensuring a smooth ticketing experience for our diverse range of events, providing outstanding customer service, and efficiently managing financial transactions.

You will be responsible for leading the box office team, overseeing operations during both pre-festival and festival periods, and ensuring effective management of booking lines and in-person sales and managing all customer ticketing enquiries from the website. You'll collaborate with the Marketing and Communications Manager to implement and maintain our ticketing system, address customer service concerns, and oversee the box office sales team (approximately 4 people).

About You:

  • You are a dynamic individual with proven experience in customer service and team supervision.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, with excellent communication skills .
  • Experience in ticketing operations is essential, ideally in a Festival or live events environment.
  • Experience of using Spektrix software is highly desirable. 

This role has normal working hours but will require flexibility during the festival run in and live period, including some weekend working and unsocial hours.

How to Apply:

To view the full job description visit: https://bit.ly/3Ody8a1

Please complete our brief online application. You will be asked to upload your current Curriculum Vitae and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience and suitability for the role. Please also include two references.

Please note:  By the start of any employment with Edinburgh Science, you must have the right to work in the UK and documentary evidence to support this. 

Note: This is a temporary fixed-term contract.

Closing date: Sunday 1 December 2024, 11:59PM

Interviews will be held: 11/12 December 2024

 

At Edinburgh Science we welcome applications from all backgrounds because we believe that bringing together people with different perspectives, ideas and experiences always leads to better discussions, decisions and results.

 

 

 


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Edinburgh Science

Edinburgh Science Foundation is an educational charity that inspires people of all ages and backgrounds around the world to experience the wonder of science and technology. Best known for Edinburgh’s annual Science Festival – the world’s first science festival and still one of the world’s largest – and for our Learning programmes that sees Generation Science tour Scotland and bring science to life in classrooms throughout the year and promotes STEM careers to teens through initiatives such as Careers Hive. An increasing worldwide element shares our content, passion and expertise more widely through an extensive portfolio of international projects.

Our mission is to inspire, encourage and challenge people of all ages and backgrounds to explore, understand and engage with the world around them and to communicate the educational, social and economic benefits of science and technology.

 

Our language is that of live experiences that amaze, inform and entertain in equal measure. We put the customer first whether they are the public, school teacher or pupil. We want to be the best before we are the largest. We thrive on creativity, rely upon professionalism and insist on accuracy. We believe in testing what we do assuming that rarely can an event not be improved. We respect and nurture the partnerships on which we depend for support, people and ideas. We know we are only as good as the people we work with and so value them all, here and abroad.