Assistant Night Manager

EVT Connect Hospitality; Sunshine Coast Regional; Hybrid; AUD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

EVT Connect Hospitality is seeking an Assistant Night Manager for Holiday Inn Express Sunshine Coast. You will support the Night Manager, help deliver superior guest experiences, and lead during emergencies.

This role requires effective communication and calm decision-making under pressure within a dynamic team. You’ll be responsible for coordinating with Duty Management, ensuring safety compliance, and acting as Manager on Duty when needed.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar hotel role or capacity.
• Able to handle night shift and maintain service standards.
• Effective written and spoken communication.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Night Manager and Duty Management team.
• Lead in hotel emergency procedures and safety compliance.
• Communicate clearly with guests and staff to ensure smooth operations.
• Take responsibility in the absence of the Night Manager.

Skills

Night shift experience

Communication skills

Problem solving

Calm under pressure

Team collaboration

Education

First Aid certificate

VIC RSA Certificate

Job description

About us

Don't just function, flourish. With EVT Connect Hospitality. The EVT Connect Hospitality team can be relied on for best-in-class insights into how to drive performance for the brand; from local talent development and operations, to driving market leading revenue strategies for third-party loyalty programs, distribution and brand standards.

EVT Connect Hospitality are a trusted partner to some of the world's most recognised hotel brands, as a franchisee, ranging from mid-scale through to full service and lifestyle hotels, such as Kimpton, Holiday Inn Express, voco, Hotel Indigo and Sebel.

At Holiday Inn Express® our purpose is to provide simple, smart travel. That's where you come in. Part of IHG Hotels and Resorts Holiday Inn Express® & Suites Sunshine Coast, has 181 rooms (41 one bedroom suites) Great Room for dining and a Roof-top Pool.

We're looking for Assistant Night Manager. someone smart and considerate - a problem solving genius that takes pride in creating and delivering great customer experiences. Working with the Night Manager, rolling up your sleeves and working side by side to deliver a superior product.

Responsibilities

• Love the brand & be a great ambassador of Holiday Inn Express
• You're a super organised, forward thinking type person: scheduling, activity planning and task delegation are critical to our success - we're depended on by the whole business to consistently deliver the goods.
• Working with the Night Manager and Duty Management team.
• Being part of and taking the lead when required in hotel emergency procedures, together with assisting in ensuring the hotel complies with local government regulations concerning safety, and any other regulatory requirements. In the absence of the Night Manager, be Manager on Duty.
• You'll be dealing with a variety of people, so your communication will be adaptable. You'll be a brilliant communicator - consistently clear and concise.
• You'll help us problem solve, as we're still building our business, we have solutions to find - your logical thinking and collaboration with teams across the business will be key.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience within a similar role or capacity.
• Enjoy working Night Shift.
• Ability to communicate effectively in spoken and written form
• Professional and personable, with a can-do attitude.
• You're pre-equipped with sound judgement, even under pressure - you'll have a heap of responsibility right off the bat
• You make calm, collected decisions - even when the clock is ticking
• Ideally, you'll have the appropriate qualification or relevant equivalent experience
• You will be required to hold or obtain a First Aid certificate and a VIC RSA Certificate
• Must meet the appropriate legal requirements to work in Australia

This is a highly rewarding and exciting role, offering great career potential and the opportunity to work with a dynamic team of industry professionals and an amazing well-established global brand.

If this sounds like the perfect move for you, come, join us.

While all applications will be reviewed, only those who meet our criteria will be contacted