2023 Zoo Entertainments Host

2023 Zoo Entertainments Host

Chessington World of Adventures Resort, Leatherhead Road
Chessington, SURREY, KT9 2NE
United Kingdom

We are currently looking for Zoo Entertainments Hosts

Location: Chessington World of Adventures, Surrey KT9 2NE
Hours: Full time & part time, fully flexible. Fixed term contract to November 2023. Working weekends and bank holidays as required to meet the needs of the business.
Benefits: Hourly rate of up to £10.42, exclusive discount on our animal VIP experiences, ongoing training opportunities and a Merlin Magic Pass - 20 free tickets for you, your family and friends to enjoy all of our Merlin Attractions across the world, plus much more!

Chessington World of Adventures Resort is the UK's wildest adventure! With our Theme Park, Zoo, spectacular Hotels and Go Ape Courses, there are plenty of roaringly exciting career paths available. We're also a part of the Merlin Entertainments family - associated with attractions like SEA LIFE, LEGOLAND Parks, Madame Tussauds and more!

About the Role

We are looking for people to actively engage with our guests within our zoo areas, sharing educational and conservational facts about our animals. You will prepare and present public zoo areas ready for opening and maintain these high standards until we close.

Being an element of the Education Team; you will deliver engaging and family focused talks & presentations about a range of animals we have here in the zoo – we help support incredible animal conservation work globally, and we want YOU to tell our guests all about it!

The Zoo Guest Experience Hosts are essential to help us drive our education and conservation efforts – so if you fancy spending your day surrounded by some of our marvellous animals and interacting with our adventurers, this could be the role for you.

Daily tasks include:

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  Cleaning our sections to get them ready for guests at the start of the day and throughout.
• Monitoring sections and interacting with guests all day.
• Performing talks and shows to educate the public about our animals.
• Performing as a character to engage children.
• Taking an animal out to meet the public.
• Learning scripts/ facts about our animals.

About You

Whether you want to embark on a full-time adventure with us, or just during the school holidays, we have something on offer for everyone.

We need our hosts to be confident in engaging guests throughout the day, our talks are attended by a large amount of guests so public speaking experience is encouraged! We also love finding ways to better engage our younger audience! We have hosts get into some amazing characters to make our educational aspects more kid friendly!

All we need is for you to come with the right positive attitude, enjoy working as part of a team and in a fast-paced environment, and be able to deliver a ROARsome experience to our Guests!

What’s Next?

If this sounds like something you could do, then complete our short application (no CV needed!)

You could then be in with the chance of an invitation to one of our hiring events where you could get the job on the day!

What’s on Offer?

• A competitive hourly rate
• Access to Merlin benefits page with discounts on over 1000 fashion and electronic retailers, restaurants, and travel
  
• 25% discount in our on-site retail shops and restaurants
• 40% discount on Lego
• Merlin Magic Pass - 20 free tickets for you, your family, and friends to enjoy all our Merlin Attractions across the world
  
• Ongoing training and development opportunities

Everyone Matters at Merlin
At Merlin, we welcome the world to our magical attractions and resorts every day, and we want to reflect that same multicultural mix inside our business too. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace where people can be themselves, have the same opportunities and thrive together. Because at Merlin, everyone matters! Together, we work to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, no matter their age, race, gender, disability, or sexual orientation. Although we understand that we'll always be learning and growing, we aim to be the most inclusive and flexible employer in our industry.