Assistant Manager (Bars)

About the Role
The Assistant Manager (Bars) main role is to ensure the safe and secure management of our outlets during operational hours. This includes a focus on floor and bar service, helping and mentoring some of our 60-student staff, welfare leadership on staff and customers alike and a desire to improve the efficiency of our general service.

The Events programme at Queen Mary Students’ Union is integral to the student experience and Queen Mary University of London, providing them with a platform to meet others, socialise and unwind during their time with us. Integral to this events platform, is the safe and proactive management of our Venues, namely Drapers, a 900 capacity multi-purpose bar & kitchen, and Griff a 250 capacity Cafe by day, Bar by night operation, with hospitality at its forefront. This is a great opportunity for a current duty manager or graduate looking for a managerial start within the Licensed trade industry.

About You
You should be a ‘hands on organised person who is committed to the values of the organisation, being a safe, friendly environment with the student experience at its core, but with an ability to see projects through from start to finish. This role’s hours would be predominantly Monday – Friday with a mixture of daytime and evening work and would require availability on occasional weekends around the needs of the business.

Applicants should have excellent communication skills and can work with a wide range of people. Candidates must have the ability to work well under pressure, work confidently within a space of alcohol service, and be eligible for a Personal License.

About Students' Union
Queen Mary Students’ Union represents and supports over 28,000 students and around 4,500 staff who make up the diverse and vibrant student body at Queen Mary, University of London. The role is primarily based on our Mile End Campus of the University, which is close to both Mile End and Stepney Green Underground Station, although work on our other campuses and external areas, is also expected.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

Advert information