Activities Manager

SUMMARY:
Our client has an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to direct a team of historical in

POSITION INFO:

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to direct a team of historical interpreters performing specialist activities. Our ideal candidate has a love for history, exceptional people skills, knowledge of working with animals, as well as hands-on knowledge of traditional crafts such as woodwork, blacksmithing and milling.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit a team of interpreters to demonstrate traditional, historical crafts in a variety of subjects.
• Arrange for the training and apprenticeships of interpreters to learn the necessary specialist skills required for historical demonstrations.
• Manage the team of hosts (including shift management, some HR admin) and oversee daily operations of activities on the site.
• General administration regarding activity management on the site, including liaising with the maintenance and gardening teams, as well as the retail team regarding on-site production of items for sale.

Key Skills:

• Exceptional people skills – both public-facing in a hospitality context and working within a small team internally,
• Reliable and well-organised,
• A pro-active; problem-solver attitude is crucial.

Qualifications:

• Experience in an educational context teaching woodwork, metalwork, animal husbandry or similar subjects.
• Experience managing a small team.
• Previous experience in a hospitality or tourism context would be beneficial.
• Formal or informal training in traditional, historical crafts such as woodwork, blacksmithing, leatherwork, milling or similar subjects.
• Experience working with farm animals, whether formally or informally.
• Fluent in both written and verbal Afrikaans and English.

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