Graduate Trainee

This graduate position is an exciting full-time two year graduate training programme with an attractive starting salary at Celtic Harmony Camp, England’s largest reconstructed Iron Age settlement, Bourne Wood, near Hertford.

As a Graduate Trainee you will lead school groups of 30 pupils in costume to deliver school trip experiences and meet & greet visitors at The Woodland Bistro two weekends a month, taking orders and introducing visitors to the 9-hole Disc Golf course as well as assisting with private and corporate events. You will assist with the leading of activities and site/facilities maintenance at Celtic Harmony Camp.

The role involves in-house training to deliver Prehistory experiences and management development alongside external training in areas from marketing, hospitality, impact measurement and fundraising. You will have your own mentor as part of our award winning education team in a beautiful woodland environment. Celtic Harmony Camp is a rural location so your own transport is essential, East Hertfordshire is a great location in the South East just a stone’s throw from London.

The role involves assisting with preparation of educational resources, workshop areas and overnight roundhouses ready for the summer season. You will progress to planning and leading activities, developing new visitor experiences and communicating proactively across the team to ensure effective delivery of Celtic Harmony Camp’s Prehistory Day & Overnight Experiences for visitors (schools and the general public).

Celtic Harmony Camp is an award-winning venue, with its thatched roundhouses and native woodland. For twenty five years, children and visitors have been rediscovering the natural world and traditions of life in ancient Britain through creative hands-on activities and outdoor activities that engage the imagination and improve well-being. Our active visitor experiences are designed to bring people together, creating a sense of belonging to our local natural and cultural heritage and building confidence through new skills and the visual results of practical work.

We hold the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge for high quality outdoor experiences, as a safe and stimulating setting aiming to improve wellbeing and resilience.

The Graduate Trainee position involves dressing in costume, assisting in the Bistro kitchen and front-of-house, site maintenance, admin and communication.

Benefits to you

• Career development moving from Graduate Trainee to Junior Education Officer with a salary increase of £500 every 6 months. from £26,000, to £28,000 over two years.
• To join our team of educators and enable more children to learn about prehistory outdoors
• Beautiful work location and modern offices and facilities
• Develop skills in a unique field of work combining creative and practical skills in outdoor education and experimental archaeology/primitive skills.
• Work in an organisation with environmental and community values.
• Free on-site parking

The ideal candidate will have

• Degree in Hospitality, Archaeology, Humanities, History, Outdoor education, conservation or other relevant discipline.
• A demonstrable interest in the outdoors, working with children and Prehistory.
• Engaged, motivated, enthusiastic and willing to follow instruction and learn.
• Able to use your initiative
• Ability to work in a team
• Adaptable with a “can do” attitude.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional planning and organisational skills for your own time and work.
• A good level of physical fitness to undertake varied and ‘all-weather’ woodland work.
• Full driving licence and access to your own transport due to the location of the site.

Remuneration

Full-time (40 hours a week) at £26,000 pa gross per annum pro rata, on a monthly rota including weekends, with a salary increase of £500 every 6 months from £26,000, to £28,000 over two years.

Apply soon as we run an ongoing assessment.