APPLICATION for the POST of Assistant Centre Manager Langdon Visitor Centre

APPLICATION FORM

APPLICATION FOR THE POST OF – Assistant Centre Manager Langdon Visitor Centre

(This information will be confidential to the Interview Panel and the line manager)

APPLICANT'S FULL NAME:

HOME ADDRESS:

TEL NO: DAYTIME______

TEL NO: EVENING ______

EMAIL ADDRESS______

ESSENTIAL SKILLS
Please outline what experience you have to meet the following Essential skills for this post.
Please feel free to expand the reply boxes or use a separate sheet if you wish to give us further information. (Max 120 words per box)
1. Experience or understanding of working with or supervising a team of volunteers.
2. We are looking for candidates who have experience in the following areas. Please evidence your skills and experience of
a) of assisting to run a retail offer or visitor centre
b) of planning, promoting and running successful and profitable events
3. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including use of social media
4. Proven ability to problem solve and to use own initiative.
5. Experience of providing excellent customer care.
6. A high level of administration skills.
7. Knowledge of /or interest in wildlife and an interest in working for a charity which is determined to protect wildlife for the future and for the people of Essex.
8. Flexibility – willingness and ability to work alternate weekends as a minimum, also bank holidays and some evenings.
9. Requirement to be able to drive and have a current full UK driving licence with use of your own vehicle or to be mobile in order to carry out duties
CONVICTIONS
Have you ever been convicted of a criminal offence? If so please give details of any convictions, spent or unspent. As this position is excluded from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, we do require you to declare any spent convictions.
QUALIFICATIONS
If you are invited for an interview we will require evidence of the qualifications you have referred to in your application.

REFEREES

We will contact you before we take in references, but please give the name, address, telephone number and email of two referees, stating how long you have known them and in what capacity. One should be your current or most recent employer who is giving a reference on behalf of that company.

REFEREE 1
Name: / REFEREE 2
Name:
Job Title: / Job Title:
Address: / Address:
Telephone Number: / Telephone Number:
Email address: / Email address:
How long you have known them: / How long you have known them:
In what capacity you have known them: / In what capacity you have known them:
DATA PROTECTION
I hereby give my consent to Essex Wildlife Trust and its subsidiaries processing the data supplied in this application form for the purpose of recruitment and selection.

In addition please prepare: A FULL CURRICULUM VITAE INCLUDING YOUR EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND CAREER HISTORY, A COVERING LETTER EXPLAINING WHY YOU THINK YOU ARE SUITABLE FOR THE POST. Thank you.

DECLARATION

I declare that the above information together with my CV and covering letter are to the best of my knowledge complete and correct. Please note: Any false, incomplete or misleading statement may lead to dismissal from the Trust.

Signed by the Applicant: Date:

To assist us with adverts please tell us where you saw this advert ______

Please return to:

Essex Wildlife Trust, The HR Department, Abbotts Hall Farm, Great Wigborough

Colchester, Essex, CO5 7RZ or e-mail to