Event Crew

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew • Richmond, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

We have an exciting opportunity for a Crew Member to join our Event Production Team, supporting the delivery of more than 400 events each year. Working on the ground, you will play a key role in the set-up and breakdown of events across Kew, including weddings and private hires, visitor programming, fundraising events, official visits, and large-scale outdoor events such as Christmas and Halloween at Kew. Working mainly outdoors, on a shift pattern with evenings and weekend work included, you will have experience of successfully rigging and de-rigging events and be a solution-focused person who understands what it takes to work to tight timescales. This is a hands-on physical role managing and moving stocks of furniture, barriers, temporary structures and AV equipment and will include driving and loading of equipment in and out of multiple venues as well and outdoors. We are looking for experienced event crew with excellent customer service, who can deliver results in a fast paced and deadline driven environment. An awareness of best practice in the events sector, including health and safety requirement and competent handling of Audio visual and tech equipment is desirable. A natural motivator, your exceptional communication skills will enable you to build an effective working relationship with internal colleagues and external suppliers. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) is a leading plant science institute, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and major visitor attraction. Our mission is to understand and protect plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth. We are working to end the unprecedented extinction crisis and to help create a world where nature is protected, valued by all and managed sustainably. We will achieve these goals by drawing on our leading scientific research, unrivalled collections of plants and fungi, global network of partners, inspirational gardens at Kew and Wakehurst, and our 260 years of history. Join us on our journey as protectors of the world's plants and fungi.

Requirements

• experience of successfully rigging and de-rigging events
• solution-focused
• understands what it takes to work to tight timescales
• excellent customer service
• deliver results in a fast paced and deadline driven environment
• exceptional communication skills
• build an effective working relationship with internal colleagues and external suppliers

Nice To Haves

• awareness of best practice in the events sector, including health and safety requirement
• competent handling of Audio visual and tech equipment

Responsibilities

• play a key role in the set-up and breakdown of events across Kew
• managing and moving stocks of furniture, barriers, temporary structures and AV equipment
• driving and loading of equipment in and out of multiple venues as well and outdoors

Benefits

• opportunities for continuous learning
• generous annual leave entitlement
• flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• other wellbeing support such as cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership
• competitive pension
• employee discount scheme
• free entry into a wide range of national museums and galleries, as well as access to our own beautiful gardens at Kew and Wakehurst

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees