Weekend part time position available
Mairangi Arts Centre seeks a warm, friendly person with customer service experience to join our small team as our Weekend Gallery Minder. The centre has two galleries which showcase a range of art exhibitions and four busy art studios that are the venue for our popular art class programme. We are looking for a reliable, conscientious person who can work independently during the weekend.
Duties and responsibilities includes:
- Minding our galleries and welcoming visitors
- Front facing customer service in a professional manner
- Responding to enquires received at reception and by telephone
- Processing gallery and gallery store sales through the EFTPOS machine and the till
- Taking recycling bins out according to schedule
- Assisting with exhibition openings and weekend events
- Other general duties as they arise from correspondence from the weekday team
Hours for the position are 10am-2pm on Saturdays and Sundays (excluding long weekends). Start date is Saturday 17 September.
A few hours of training to be scheduled on a weekday prior to start date will be confirmed. To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter to Christine Currey at christine@mairangiarts.co.nz and let her know you saw this job post here on Neighbourly.
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