Ambassadors

Join our vibrant ambassador programme for current students at Heriot-Watt University. This initiative allows successful candidates to engage directly with the life of the House in return for their assistance with delivering key events throughout the year, including the Fringe Festival Panmure.

If you are interested in working with us at Panmure House and supporting our events team, please complete the application form below. If successful in the first round, we will invite you for an interview and then offer you a role which will be followed by a training session.

The benefits for you:

• This is a paid role (wages will be paid per hour worked)
• Opportunity to be part of engaging and interesting events such as the Lights of Caledonia, Adam Smith Lecture Series and Fringe Festival at Panmure House 
• Training
• Experience in events
• Experience in customer service 
• Experience of working at a Fringe Festival venue and with performers
• A reference from the Panmure House team & work experience for your CV 

Essential skills & characteristics:

• Presentability
• Outgoing, friendly & professional
• Proactive
• Cleaning and tidying duties
• Occasional moving furniture during / before/ after events especially the Fringe
• Punctual & reliable
• Calm under pressure
• A team player ready to get stuck in and lend a hand
• There is no task too big or small 

The ambassadorship:

• If successful, we will ask you to support us at our events throughout 2022
• You will be required to complete a timesheet after each event to detail the hours worked and submit it for approval in order to be paid
  

Ambassadorship tasks & work include:

• Event support – coat check-in, covid protocols, guest check-in, set-up 
• Promotion of events, especially the Fringe Festival 
• Customer service – welcoming, coats, answering questions, escalating inquiries where appropriate
• Examples include welcoming guests at the Fringe Festival, taking tickets, counting guests, assisting guests in locating the bathrooms or disability lift

ESSENTIAL DATES: 

We require support on the following dates (more will be added as new events arise):

Smith Supper - 2 June 2022, 5-11pm

Panmure House Prize - 18 July 2022, 5-11pm

Panmure House Prize - 19 July 2022, 12-7pm

Edinburgh Fringe Festival - full days and weekends between 5 Aug – 29 Aug 2022 (rest days will be allocated)

TIMELINE:

• You indicate your interest
• If we feel you'd be a good fit, we will invite you and your fellow ambassadors to Panmure House for a short training and orientation session
• You'll be invited and contacted throughout the year to support our events as needed