Events Assistant

InterContinental Hotels Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading hospitality group in Scotland is seeking an Events Assistant to join their team at Kimpton Charlotte Square. This part-time position involves supporting various events such as weddings and conferences while providing exceptional service. Ideal candidates will have flexibility in working hours, experience in hospitality roles, and a warm personality. Join a company that believes in heartfelt connections and offers great benefits including competitive pay, employee discounts, and career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Complimentary stay for you and one guest after probation

Generous discounts across F&B outlets

Extensive training and career progression

Financial wellbeing app

Enhanced family leave

Mental health support

Taxi subsidy for late shifts

Sick pay and life insurance

Discounts at hotels and restaurants

Qualifications

• Flexibility in working hours for late finishes and early starts.
• Experience in Events, Bar, Restaurant, or Hotel as Waiter/Waitress, Server, or Host.
• Drive to produce results and enhance guest experiences.
• Authentic personality with a commitment to service.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent service at various events like Birthdays and Weddings.
• Ensure smooth running of operations at events.
• Work across a wide range of events to support team goals.

Skills

Flexibility of working hours

Experience in Events, Bar, Restaurant, or Hotel

Drive to produce results

Warm and authentic personality

Can-do attitude

Job description

A fantastic opportunity for an Events Assistantto join our team at Kimpton Charlotte Squareon a PArt-Time contract!

You will earn £12.60 per hour, plus service charge

Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel brings together traditional Edinburgh architecture with an exciting and fresh indoor feel, offering our guests a modern luxurious stay. Welcoming locals to relax in our Garden area (a must visit), experiencing mouth-watering food in BABA restaurant, or guests from far and wide being pampered in our state-of-the-art Spa – we cover it all!

Complimentary stay for you+1 in our Hotel upon successful completion of probation, generous discounts across our F&B outlets at Kimpton Charlotte Square and InterContinental Edinburgh The George, plus Spa & Gym discounts at our Kimpton property.

Extensive training, opportunities for career progression across the world, plus 2 paid days volunteering per year with a cause of your choice

Wagestream - a financial wellbeing app giving you the opportunity to save, track and withdraw your pay as you earn it.

Enhanced Family Leave (you can ask more details at the interview).

Mental Health First Aiders on Duty and access to Employee Assistance Programs.

Taxi subsidy for shifts starting/ending between 23:00-06:00.

We provide every employee company sick pay and life insurance

Amazing discounts for our hotels and restaurants around the world

Discounts from over 15,000 stores – all the way from retail to cinema

Don’t forget, bring your friends and take part in our generous ‘Refer a Friend’ programme!

As an Events Assistant, your main duties and responsibilities will be working across a wide range of events such as Birthdays, Weddings, Conferences and Baby Showers to provide customers with excellent service, working to a fast pace and ensuring the smooth running of our operations.

To succeed as n Events Assistant, you will need:

Flexibility of working hours, you might have late finishes and early starts depending on which event you are supporting!

Experience working at Events, within a Bar, Restaurant or Hotel as a Waiter/Waitress, Server or Host

Drive to produce results, we work together within the Kimpton family to continue to provide our guests with extremely personal experiences and human connection.

A warm and authentic personality, with a can-do attitude and commitment to service.

Overall, you will be willing to work within our team to embrace our service and delight our guests!

At Kimpton, our shared mission is to make lives better through heartfelt human connections. This emotional investment drives all that we do, and it’s why you’ll love the work, too. Our colleagues are empowered and encouraged to act from the heart, to go above and beyond to create ridiculously personal experiences for each other and our guests!

Our passion is YOU…come as you are!

Here, you will have space to:

• Be yourself- bringing the real you to work, with your unique personality we want you to be who you are!
• Lead yourself – we trust you to make decisions and exert your creativity in order to provide our guests with heartfelt human connections, we trust you to do right!
• Make it count– you matter, and we will provide you with all the tools you need in order to create ridiculously personalised experiences for our guests every day!

If you are someone who likes to march to the beat of their own drum and wants to join a company which encourages authentic individuality, apply today to join us as anEvents Assistant!

You must meet the legal requirements to work in the UK.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Who we are

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants crafts unique destinations that kindle heartfelt human connections. Our bespoke spaces blend spirit, style and delight to create an addictive culture of refined irreverence where locals, visitors & colleagues seamlessly connect.

Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the ‘Apply’ button. Start your journey with us today.