Visitor Experience Coordinator
The Guards Museum Closing date: Sun, 15 Nov 2026
- Part time
- £25k-£30k
- Apply now
Wed, 28 Oct 2026 "> published -
Job Summary
Job Description
Visitor Experience
As part of our external welcome, engage with passersby and potential visitors outside the museum, sharing information about admissions, the shop, and experiences, and driving footfall to the museum
Ensure provision of a warm, friendly, and consistent visitor welcome at the admissions desk by staff and volunteers
Accurately and efficiently redeem and process visitor admissions and retail sales
Engage visitors with free programme activities and upsell paid Museum experiences, including uniform photo opportunity, tours and merchandise
Deliver the Museum's Uniform Try-on Experience, ensuring a consistent standard across the team
Ensure the team is focused on key performance indicators, and how they can influence them
Volunteers
Recruit and train volunteers, including interview, selection and orientation
Investigate, develop and deliver a variety of volunteer recruitment methods to ensure an appropriately sized pool of committed volunteers
Lead on the training of volunteers, designing training and appropriate materials (including in-person, video, online and written) and ensuring consistent rollout
Review and develop volunteer roles to ensure each role supports the museum's strategy
Develop volunteer communication, including a regular newsletter, in-person meetings, and volunteer events
Supervise Front of House volunteers, ensuring they are fully trained in their duties, standards are understood and consistently met, and all Museum policies and procedures are adhered to
Manage volunteer administration, including applications, joining paperwork, expenses and the monthly schedule
Museum Operations
Carry out Museum opening and closing procedures; deal with any emergency situations and ensure Museum security in accordance with procedures
Assist with delivery of visitor programme activities, events and tours
Ensure regular housekeeping tasks are carried out to a satisfactory standard
Maintain visitor experience reporting
Job Requirements
The ideal candidate will thrive in a customer-facing role, enjoy meeting new people, and work effectively as part of a small team. You will be motivated by providing a high level of customer service and visitor engagement to a diverse audience, including tourists, families and enthusiasts. You'll understand the importance of leading by example, and will model agreed front of house standards, behaviours and language, ensuring consistency across our team of volunteers.
Essential criteria:
- Excellent communication skills, confident interacting with a diverse audience
- A passion for working with the public, with excellent customer service and sales skills, ideally gained in a visitor-facing role
- Confident working independently, and supporting a small team with a variety of tasks
- An interest in British history
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Experience working with volunteers
Desirable:
- Museum (or similar) experience
- Experience recruiting, training, supervising volunteers
Job Responsibilities
In this role you will have the opportunity to learn all about the Museum and the Guards in order to welcome and engage visitors, as well as utilising your sales skills to promote commercial products, working alongside our Visitor Experience Coordinator (Tours & Retail).
The ideal candidate will thrive in a customer-facing role, enjoy meeting new people, and work effectively as part of a small team. You will be motivated by providing a high level of customer service and visitor engagement to a diverse audience, including tourists, families and enthusiasts.
In addition to recruiting and training volunteers, you will manage the volunteer rota and expenses. You'll understand the importance of leading by example, modelling front of house standards, behaviours and language, ensuring consistency across our volunteer team. You will ensure visitors are warmly welcomed, have an excellent experience at the Museum and leave inspired by the Guards' Story, and support commercial targets.
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Job Overview
- Job Title: Visitor Experience Coordinator
- Salary: £25k-£30k (pro-rata)
- Hours: Part time
- Artform: Museums
- Role: Customer Service
- Contract: Permanent
- Closing date: Sun, 15 Nov 2026
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Location:
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Job: Visitor Experience Coordinator
Job: Visitor Experience Coordinator
Organisation: The Guards Museum
Postcode: SW1E 6HQ
How to Apply
The application process for this role is by CV and application form. The application process will ask you questions about why you want to work for us, what attracts you to this position, and how you can demonstrate the key skills and experience required for the role.
- Contact name: Applications
- Contact email: [email protected]
About The Guards Museum
The Museum commemorates nearly 400 years of history of the five regiments of Foot Guards, who protect the Sovereign and royal palaces. Founded to teach new recruits their Regimental heritage, it now enables a diverse audience to discover the soldiers’ stories: a life of combat, peace-keeping and ceremonial duty. We strive to educate, inspire and connect visitors to the rich traditions of the Guards: fostering an understanding of their pivotal role in our history, present and future.