Assistant Box Office Manager, Ticketing and Reception sales

Warwick Arts Centre; Coventry; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Warwick Arts Centre seeks an Assistant Box Office Manager to enhance ticketing and reception operations. This role is pivotal in ensuring a welcoming visitor experience and supporting sales initiatives. Candidates should possess strong communication skills, a passion for sales, and the ability to foster teamwork within a diverse environment.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working

Generous leave policies

Onsite childcare facilities

Qualifications

• Efficiency and drive with a proactive attitude.
• Passion for sales and upselling.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support group sales and manage ticketing operations.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure excellent visitor experience.
• Supervise day-to-day operations of the Ticketing & Reception team.

Skills

Communication

Sales

Customer Service

Teamwork

Job description

Assistant Box Office Manager, Ticketing and Reception sales

Assistant Box Office Manager, Ticketing and Reception sales

This range is provided by Warwick Arts Centre. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

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Thank you for your interest in joining us at Warwick Arts Centre. We are on a mission to create a dynamic, relevant, and artistically ambitious and sustainable arts centre and we need more great people to help us achieve our plans.

We believe that the arts are an extraordinary source of wisdom, support, connection, understanding, joy and inspiration for each and every one of us.

We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong, a place of fairness and equity and to be an organisation that reflects the diversity of its city. If this sounds like somewhere you would like to work, we would like to hear from you.

Together we believe that audiences are at the heart of our vision and this post is pivotal to succeeding in our ambitions.

The Deputy Ticketing & Reception Manager (Group & Sales) is responsible for group sales and associated on day welcome, box office reporting, supporting sales initiatives and memberships such as access scheme, film club etc, supporting the ticketing and reception team and deputising for the Ticketing and Reception Manager as required.

The position supports the day-to-day work of the team of Ticketing and Reception staff (permanent, casual and volunteers), ensuring an efficient and effective digital first sales and systems focussed operation integral to and with excellent visitor experience at the heart of day to day delivery

The box office is Warwick Arts Centre’s visitor welcome and reception hub required to:

• Deliver a pro-active, efficient sales focussed ticketing and reception operation providing accurate and timely information to all visitors
• Deliver a visible and warm welcome providing an excellent visitor experience at all times
• Support and assist with CRM maintenance and administration
• Proactively collaborate with WAC teams to support delivery of visitor experience / sales / WAC objectives / vision and mission

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with a passion for sales, upselling and reporting who thrives supporting and nurturing team members & visitors. Candidates will be efficient and driven with a proactive attitude and excellent communication skills.

This post will sit within the Ticketing & Reception team and report to the Ticketing & Reception Manager.

Hours for this role are set on a weekly rota that runs over a rolling 4 week period. The rota covers Monday – Sunday, morning through to evening. This post will have a mixture of administrative time and customer service hours across any given week. We operate across 363 days a year so our team do work over holiday periods.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

About the Department

Warwick Arts Centre is the largest multi art form arts centre outside London, presenting events, activities, films and exhibitions to over 200,000 people every year.

We are one of the region’s leading learning, visual arts, cinema and performing arts venues. We work with exceptional artists and creatives from the city, region and globally delivering a programme that reflects our local and global context. As an arts centre on a university campus our ambition is to develop programmes which speak to and reach our audiences on campus, in the city of Coventry and the wider region. Our city is one of the most ethnically diverse and youngest in Europe our goal is to reflect this through our work and the people we employ.

Vision and Values

When we re-opened our new building in 2021 a new brand positioning was developed with a focus on forming a better bridge between arts and the community and also highlighting the venue as a melting pot of different people and ideas:

Purpose

We’re here to share our love for the arts

Belief

We believe the arts are a place we can all meet - a place to share our experiences, a place to find common ground and understanding, a place to connect, to transform and explore new possibilities together.

Experiences you’ll feel and never forget – be it joy, excitement or sadness and whoever you are, wherever you’re from

More information can be found on our website

Our commitment to equality

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of staff within the Arts Centre we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from groups that are

Warwick Arts Centre is a department of the University of Warwick, and the successful candidate will be employed by the University of Warwick.

*Global Majority is a collective term that refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or, have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities.'

About the University

Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.

You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

*QS World University Rankings 2024

** Research Excellence Framework 2021

To find out more about us visit our website.

How to Apply

To apply please complete your essential personal details and attach a CV and cover letter by 11.55pm on the closing date of Sunday 29th September 2024. Please ensure your CV includes your most recent employment experience along with any additional relevant experience and education history. Your cover letter should detail how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for this post.

How to prepare your application

• Please review the Job Description and the Person Specification.
• Think about all the different types of roles you have had or work that you have done to support your application (Essential)
• For each of the essential criterion, provide evidence/an example of what you have done that demonstrates that you have the experience, skills or knowledge we are looking for (Essential)
• Remember to tell us why you want to work for Warwick Arts Centre. So, do your research. Look at our website to make sure that you understand the range, scope and scale of our work. Explore our context. Our role in the city of Coventry is very important to us so make sure you understand the demographics and have a view on what that means or should mean for us and our work with audiences (Essential)
• Ask a friend/colleague to review your application and to check that you have provided examples and told the best story of your career to date and your ambitions in this role and the future (Optional)

We can only assess your application based on what you write in your application so make sure that you write your supporting statement/letter with that in mind.

What we offer

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, holiday days, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.

We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here.

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.

The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

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• Industries

  Performing Arts, Events Services, and Theater Companies

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