A Cultural Officer is required to work under the management of Athlone Arts & Tourism and will be primarily located at Athlone Castle.

You must have experience of working and tour-guiding in a museum, heritage site, visitor attraction or similar environment, be enthusiastic about heritage and tourism and demonstrate a basic knowledge of the history of Athlone Castle and surrounding facilities.

The successful candidate will be able to multi-task, work front of house, deliver tours, supervise and train staff and volunteers as appropriate and be able to handle pressure and work to tight deadlines in a busy customer service focused attraction.

The successful candidate will be required to work under management and undertake a range of duties relating to the day-to-day visitor services operational activities of Athlone Castle including; delivery and supervision of front of house/customer services, tour guiding,
ticketing, cash receipting and banking, group and event bookings, retail/café sales, merchandising and stock taking, sales generation, marketing and research, administration, reporting, programming, co-ordination and delivery of events and appropriate day-to-day staff and volunteer supervision as maybe directed by management.

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