Festival Hospitality Assistant
Reports to: Hospitality Coordinator
Job Purpose: To provide a safe, healthy, clean and friendly atmosphere while abiding by all Safe Food Handling and Preparation requirements.
Qualifications:
- Knowledge of safe food handling and safe food preparation
- Knowledge of specific meal requirements (aware of possible allergies, gluten -free etc.)
Work setting:
- Outdoors rain or shine
- Working under a large tent
- An outdoor kitchen-like atmosphere
Timeframe:
- Friday morning to Sunday evening
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensures safe food handling preparation
- Ensures cooking is done properly and adheres to health and safety policy and procedures particularly for "special meal" requests due to allergies, beliefs etc.
- Provides a hospitable environment to all crew and guests
- Good verbal communication skills and sensitivity to customer needs
- Provides hospitality to performers, sound crew, sponsors and VIPS from festival gate opening to approximately 30 minutes after performers leave the stage
- Provide performers with full meals including a snack at the end of the last performance, hospitality can then clean-up for the day
- Tent decorating on Thursday before the festival and takes down all decorations prior to the tent removal
- Cleans all borrowed equipment and appliances to prepare for return to appropriate persons
- Works with site crew for set up and tear down of hospitality tent
- Any security issues are relayed to security persons and security coordinator
- Works in conjunction with transportation/shuttle to provide Red Deer tourism information
- Ensures a safe, clean and friendly environment
- Provides a good impression to guests and enthusiastically answers any questions about the festival
- Understand and complies with the Central Music Fest volunteer regulations and code of ethics
Benefits:
- Ambassadors for the festival – first impression of festival for most performers and guests
- Opportunity to forge a positive professional relationship with performers and guests
- Comfortable work environment
- Volunteers receive t-shirts, food voucher(s), snacks, free camping
- Meet other volunteers
- Enjoy some really great music