Assistant Bar Manager
Salary £ 27,788
Central London
Vacancy listed 2023-03-28
Application deadline 2023-05-22
Details
We’re looking for an experienced Assistant Bar Manager to join our team and assist in the operations of our licensed spaces, including a new, exciting, mobile coffee cart.

The Assistant Bar Manager will, working alongside the Bar Manager, help grow and maintain the bar as a vibrant social hub for LSE’s student community, delivering the best possible level of service, care, and experience to our members.

You will be operationally focused, overseeing day-to-day operations of the bar. As such, an excellent knowledge of relevant products and keen understanding of emergent trends across the hospitality sector, especially amongst younger people is essential.

You will work closely with the wider team (the Social Manager, Bar Manager and Entertainment & Events Manager) and can let your creative side shine, ensuring the bar is able to offer a unique experience that complements a diverse, exciting, and unique programme of entertainment and events throughout the year.

The Assistant Bar Manager will also be responsible for duty managing a variety of events in the absence of the Bar Manager. These range from large scale club nights to small scale pop-ups. As such, experience in managing security teams and duty managing larger scale events is required. When acting as duty manager the Assistant Bar Manager will ensuring that all regulatory compliance is held to an exacting standard, guaranteeing a safe environment for everyone.

 JOB PURPOSE

  1. To manage the day-to-day performance of bar facilities to increase usage and profitability
  2. To ensure results are delivered through exceptional customer service to the Union’s diverse membership and other users
  3. Manage bar team consisting of student staff, and supervision of external contractors

To apply, click on the link and read the job description and person specification.

How to apply? 

We want to ensure all systems, policies and processes are free from bias or discrimination and are fair and accessible, therefore we ask that all candidates complete our Application Process by uploading the two following documents: 

Part 1: Supporting Statement is all about you telling us about your suitability for the role and will be used to determine if you are shortlisted for interview. Please keep this one page maximum and do not include any personal information, e.g. name or date of birth. Please use the attached job description and person specification to help with this. 

Part 2: Equal Opportunities Monitoring and Contact Form is personal information – so we can contact you if you are shortlisted for the interview. It also helps us gather and analyse demographic information about our applicants. This part will only be seen by HR and will not have any impact on shortlisting. 

Application forms are formatted to ensure the equality monitoring data is removed before applications are seen by the shortlisting panel. This process allows us to ensure that the shortlisting is done in a fair and consistent manner and all applicants are given the same opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.

For further information regarding the role, please see attached the full job description and person specification.

If you would like to have an informal chat about this role please contact: Johnnie Padilla, Social Manager,  j.padilla@lse.ac.uk


Notes

Compulsory Requirement - The UK Government sets the legal regulations that we are required to follow. As an employer we have to ensure that everyone is eligible to work in the UK and this is done by us checking and making a copy of the correct original identification/documentation before your first day of work. Currently we require you to have the right to work in the UK, as we are not a Home Office approved sponsor.

Please also note that interviews are planned for Thursday 11th May and Friday 12th May for this position. Please let us know in the notes section of your application if you cannot attend these dates.

Attached documents
Title File
Equal Opportunities Form EO-form-LSESU_2023.docx
Assistant Bar Manager Assistant_Bar_Manager_JD_-_Aug_22.docx

This vacancy has now been closed