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Europe

Leading tours of Europe - usually for American high-school students and their teachers in groups of up to 55 people. Each tour typically visits multiple countries over a period of 8-25 days. The job involves coordinating the itinerary in advance and accompanying the group on tour, for the chief purposes of managing the logistics and providing an engaging educational experience. Each tour is a unique journey and an exciting challenge!

Worldwide

Architects of Air build and tour ‘luminaria’- inflatable sculptures which visitors enter to experience the beauty of light and colour. Each luminarium is the size of around half a football pitch and can accommodate up to 80 people at one time. As a Luminarium Manager I ensure the safe and proper management of the structure and fulfil the ambassadorial role of presenting it as a work of art. The job involves training and overseeing a build/break crew and stewarding team, undertaking repairs, coordinating installation contractors, inflating and deflating the structure each day, monitoring environmental conditions (such as wind speeds and temperatures) and conducting media interviews including print, radio and TV (sometimes live!). During my years with AoA I've been lucky enough to work in locations including the USA, Australia and the Middle East.

Glanusk, Wales, United Kingdom

Green Man Festival is an independent and wonderfully non-corporate music festival which takes place annually in the beautiful Bannau Brycheiniog national park. My present role involves recruiting, training and leading a team of around 15 cashiers and admin staff.

Glanusk, Wales, United Kingdom

Leading a team of cashiers working accross the festival site.

Glanusk, Wales, United Kingdom

Stock control at End Up bar, attempting to keep the beer flowing.

Glanusk, Wales, United Kingdom

Mainly in fancy-dress.

BOAT is a wonderful purpose-built open-air 425 capacity amphitheatre. Whilst on shift I manage all aspects of the venue operation in all weathers!

Shoreham By Sea, England, United Kingdom

Ropetackle is a modern single-auditorium 350 capacity community arts centre. Whilst on shift, I manage all aspects of the venue operation, aiming to create a great experience for the performers, audiences and volunteer staff.

Shoreham By Sea, England, United Kingdom

Line managing a team of Duty Managers, including organising recruitment, rotas and training.

Shoreham-By-Sea

Attenborough Centre For The Creative Arts

ACCA is a beautiful 1960s venue on campus at the University of Sussex. In my present role I work mostly remotely to line-manage a team of around 20 Front of House staff - including organising rotas, payroll, training and recruitment. I also manage the venue's box office system.

Attenborough Centre For The Creative Arts

Brighton Dome is a 200+ year old former royal stables, now home to a 1,800 capacity concert hall and two further auditoria. Brighton Festival is England's largest mixed arts festival, held annually in May since 1964. On a typical shift, I take overall responsiblity for the operation of one of the three in-house venues, or for an external venue or outdoor event during Brighton Festival. I lead the stewarding, security and VSA teams and oversee the bars, technical & box office teams to ensure the event runs as planned, with excellent standards of safety, security and customer service. I'm trained to lead complex emergency procedures.

Conducting a range of guided tours of the historic Brighton Dome buildings for groups of up to 30 people. The tours, which I took a lead in writing and resourcing, include a ‘backstage’ tour suited to the general public and school groups, and an ‘arts industry’ tour specifically for college and university groups.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Organising a day of training events across multiple hotel venues prior to the main conference, in addition to three nights of parties at various nightclub venues, twice per year. Coordinating the venues, suppliers, sponsors and staff.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Managing a stage at the main conference, twice per year. Coordinating the speakers, technicians and audiences in pursuit of inspirational presentations with high production-values.

Cornwall

Annually managing the Walled Garden stage for 4 festivals until the event sadly ceased in 2019.

Managing conferences around the UK.