Events & Festivals Worker - CAS (less than 500 hrs)/PT (less than 1000 hrs)

City of Grapevine • Grapevine, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Events & Festivals Worker is a support person who is assigned to work the many events sponsored by the Grapevine Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB). Such events include Christmas Capital of Texas, GrapeFest, Main Street Fest, North Pole Express, and Grapevine Vintage Railroad (GVRR) trains. The Events and Festivals Seasonal Worker are manual labor and public facing positions that are vital to providing a high-level guest experience.

Requirements

• Must have excellent customer service and hospitality skills.
• Must have reliable transportation.
• Must be able to work for long hours and stand for extended periods of time (minimum of four hours at a time).
• Must be able to use various scanning and inventory equipment as well as iPad and associated programs.
• Ability to adapt quickly with limited on-the-job training.
• Must be able to follow written and verbal directions.
• Requires a High School Diploma or GED.
• Over 18 years of age preferred.
• Must be able to work various times, including some nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Opportunity to work up to 1,000 hours per calendar year.
• Must pass a Federal/National criminal background check.
• Must pass a pre-employment basic physical, drug screen, and functional assessment screening (Level 1).

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual or multi-lingual skills are desirable (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese) but not required.

Responsibilities

• Provides staffing during CVB/GVRR events and festivals as needed.
• Provides assistance and manual labor with setup, delivery, stocking, operation, and teardown for CVB and Grapevine Vintage Railroad (GVRR) events and festivals.
• Serves in public-facing roles such as gate attendants, queue line attendants, ushers, ticket takers, information booth attendants, etc.
• Simple clerical processes assembling promotional bits, placing signage/posters, answers phones, sorts, collates, and assembles events & festivals kits, provides human arrow directional assistance and information, answering phones, and other events & festivals duties as assigned.
• Provides back of house preparation and organizing of deliveries for full-time staff. Assist in cleaning and organization at festival and Christmas storage facilities.
• May serve alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages in accordance with federal, state and local regulations.
• Performs related duties as directed when such duties are a logical and appropriate assignment to the position.
• Timely attendance is required for this position.
• Interacts professionally and respectfully with the public, coworkers, and others in the course of daily work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED