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Event Planner for Social Activities

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The experience

We are currently looking for a hostel social Crew for our East Melbourne hostel. Making sure everyone feels safe and ensuring new guests feel welcome. Duties include some cleaning and admin but mainly organizing and facilitating social events. The ideal person loves people and social life but is not a huge party animal (anymore). In the role, Having demonstrable experience and you will be supported directly by the owner and operations manager

What you offer

13 hours of help per week

Music: Perform to entertain guests, children or local communities.

Tour Guide: Organize and lead tours around the city.

Party Promoter: Help organise and promote parties and social activities.

Bartending: Make and serve drinks and help maintain the beverages inventory.

What you get

3 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Discounts on Pubs: Get discounts at nearby pubs.

Discounts on Drinks: Get discounts for drinks and beverages from our bar.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Get free drinks or beverages.: Drink up! Get free and tasty drinks for yourself.

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Fluent English

Between 26 and 34 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

Academy Course How to become an outstanding Worldpacker

Be from outside Australia

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Please note the following:
- We require at least 8 weeks guaranteed continuous availability to consider you for this position
- Every hour you work we credit you $24 off the cost of your following week's accommodation
- House social Crew generally work between 8-14 hours a week, including time taken to plan & host social events
- If your credits amount to less than your full week's accommodation charge , you are required to pay the outstanding amount on Wednesday
- If your credits amount to more than your full week's accommodation charge extra credits roll over to the following week
- Rostering is based on availability, performance & Credits

Activities & Shift

Social events can be BBQs, movie nights and games, plus external events. On shift you also are responsible for some minor cleaning & housekeeping and checking in new guests, Informing and reminding guests of hostel rules and telling management if there are breaches or concerns with guests behaviour

Rules

We have rules in place to make sure that everyone can not only have a fun and safe time, but get a good night's sleep. We treat our guests as adults but breaches of the rules are followed up and enforced.
We are also a dry hostel ( no alcohol consumption or possession on site) - we do have a bar that is attached to the hostel.