Sales & Information Assistant Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE03: £21,254 - £22,681 Per Annum Pro Rata
University Secretary's Group / Communications & Marketing / Visitor Centre & Gift Shop
Open Ended - Permanent: Part-time - 20 Hours per Week
1 Post Available
We are looking for Sales & Information Assistants to assist in sales and information provision in the University of Edinburgh Visitor Centre & Gift Shop at 2 Charles St, Edinburgh EH8 9AD.
The Opportunity:
To work at the University's only Visitor Centre and official gift shop in the central campus. You'll be a joining an existing team of fellow students and will be supervised by experienced retail professional colleagues. It is a lively and positive environment where the key focus is on providing help and a warm welcome to all visitors to the University.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Recent previous experience in retail and dealing with customers is essential
- Friendly, courteous & always willing to help
- Attention to detail and fully computer literate
- Working knowledge of the University, its campuses and the City
- Have initiative particularly in managing own workload
- Flexible and adaptable
- Willing to learn and develop new skills
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
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