Learning & Visitor Assistant

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Post Title: Learning and Visitor Assistant (One Year Fixed Term with potential to be permanent)

Salary: £13.45 per hour based on FTE on £26,227.50 per annum

Hours: Variable hours working as and when required, to be mutually agreed. We run school sessions during the school term time (Monday to Friday) and craft activities (Tuesday to Friday) in school holidays. We also open Sundays during the Spring/Summer season (April to September) and run evening talks once a month on a Monday.

Organisation: The Green Estate Community Interest Company

Are you a friendly and approachable individual with great customer service skills and confidence in speaking to school parties, visitors and corporate groups?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our friendly team to help all our visitors and school parties enjoy their visit to The Green Estate and Sheffield Manor Lodge, and day bookings across our other buildings. You will help visitors make marvellous memories by leading and assisting in the delivery of school sessions, public openings on selected Sundays and school holidays, and Monday night talks. There will also be the opportunity to support the delivery of weekday venue hire bookings in Manor Oaks House, Studio 3 and the Discovery Centre which will include setting up the room, handling refreshments and resetting the room for the next booking.

This varied role will include sharing the rich heritage of our site, inspiring primary age children as they learn about the stone age and the Tudors, while also supporting The Green Estate in its goal to become an Urban Resilience demonstrator. As the first point of contact, you’ll provide a warm welcome to new and current visitors. You will also raise awareness of our fundraising programmes and how a donation can support the upkeep of our historic site.

We require someone with previous experience of supporting children and young people. In return we can offer you a friendly and supportive working environment within a unique and diverse organisation. This is exciting and varied role which will enable the individual to gain a range of experience and skills.

Closing date: 8.00am, Thursday 29th October 2026

Interviews will be held on Thursday 19th November 2026, with the start date as soon as possible

An information pack has been prepared providing further details about our organisation, its vision for the future, and the full job description, person specification and job specification. This is available on our website https://greenestate.org.uk/people/jobs.

To apply please submit your CV and a covering letter to recruitment@greenestate.org. Please ensure your cover letter explains how you meet our Person Specification.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we meet the right candidate so please do not delay in applying.