Visitor Services Supervisor - Toronto, Canada - Harbourfront centre

Harbourfront centre

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Application Deadline:
March 18, 2024

Harbourfront Centre is a leader in providing internationally renowned artistic, educational and recreational programming across a beautiful 10-acre campus at the heart of Toronto's waterfront.

For more than 45 years, Harbourfront Centre has celebrated the best in Canadian culture and the rich mosaic of cultures from around the world, presenting thousands of events annually from music festivals to contemporary dance, to craft and design, to visual arts and more.

Welcoming visitors year-round, there is something for everyone at Harbourfront Centre

Currently, exciting employment opportunities exist in
Harbourfront Centre for Visitor Services Supervisors. This position offers the opportunity to work for one of the leading multidisciplinary arts institutions in the world.

Position Title:
Visitor Services Supervisor

Department:
Visitor Experience

Reporting To:
Manager, Visitor Experience

Type of Employment:
Part Time/Casual

Hourly Rate:
$22 per hour

Number of Positions:2-3

Location:
Toronto, ON

Summary of Function:

As the Visitor Services Supervisor you will have the opportunity to oversee the daily operation of a few Visitor touch points as you lead, supervise, and motivate a team of Visitor Services Representatives.

You will be part of the Visitor Experience Team and provide concierge level service to all visitors where our goal is to exceed expectations as we welcome visitors back to our site.

Duties:

Oversees the Visitor Services frontline team in the Call Centre, Info Desk and Box Office environments, ensuring that customers are provided with exceptional service and that transactions, processes, protocols, and procedures are accurately followed using the appropriate tools and platforms.
Supports, supervises, organizes, and coordinates the workload and services provided by the Visitor Services frontline team on a daytoday basis and ensures that they are kept up to date with internal communications.
Train and coach, the Visitor Services frontline team, provide professional resolution of escalated customer service issues.
Supervise the activities of the Visitor Services representatives in the satellite Box Offices and manage Will Call.
Performs clerical, administrative, and financial functions associated with event promotion, ticket sales and other activities, as required.
Assist with implementation of Ticketing policies and procedures.
Maintain a positive and proactive approach to ticketing activities and a strong commitment to superior customer service.
Cash control, balancing and related administrative functions.
Monitoring staff performance to ensure exceptional levels of Visitor Satisfaction are being maintained.
Ticket processing and inperson ticket sales.
Process in house ticketing requests.
Other duties, as assigned.

Requirements:

23 years of supervisory experience in a sales, financial, or events environment.
35 years of experience in customer service delivery
Demonstrated experience with computers and an ability to develop a comprehensive understanding and expertise with event software and customer relation management systems.
Previous experience with cash management and point of sales systems.
Excellent organizational skills and ability to multitask.
Ability to work under pressure and adapt quickly to a fastpaced environment.
Excellent problem solving and decisionmaking skills.
Excellent communication and deescalation skills.
Highly motivated selfstarter with a lot of initiative.
Ability to comfortably lift fifteen (15) to twenty (20) pounds of weight to help support operational needs.
Ability to comfortably work in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Ability to work while seated at computer in an office environment for extended periods of time.
Ability to work while standing to support events for extended periods of time.
Available to support call centre opening times including weekday business hours, as well as rotating weekend and evening shifts to support events.
Supervisory Experience in a ticketing operations environment is desirable.
Customer Service experience via inperson, telephone, and digitized methods of delivery is desirable.
Ability to troubleshoot technical problems as they arise is desirable.
Experience using ticketing software, particularly Tessitura is desirable.
Experience with Bell Total Connect On Demand Call Centre Software is desirable.
Familiarity with Front of House/Ushering customer service delivery &/or delivery of customer service at live events is desirable.
Knowledge and interest of Canada's Arts Community is desirable.
Experience in the notforprofit sector is desirable.
Must be legally eligible to work in Canada. Non-Canadian applicants must have a valid employment Visa and proper documentation authorizing their ability to work in Canada.