Event Host & Event Support chez Stone Gables Estate, LLC

Description

Stone Gables Estate

Home to Ironstone Ranch and The Star Barn, Stone Gables Estate offers a one-of-a-kind historic setting for events ranging from weddings and receptions to corporate team building, horseback riding, and Historic Heritage Days. As a faith-based ministry and business, we operate with purpose: 100% of net profits support abandoned children worldwide.

If you’re passionate about meaningful work where beauty, history, service, and purpose come together, we’d love to hear from you. Stone Gables Estate is always seeking caring, talented individuals to join our team and make a difference.

Job Summary

The Event Host & Event Support role at Stone Gables Estate (SGE) creates a fun, welcoming, and relaxed atmosphere during scheduled events while providing oversight, security, and safety for all clients, guests, vendors, and employees.

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience in Hospitality field preferred.
• Must always be courteous, friendly, professional, and personable.
• High interpersonal intelligence ability.
• Ability to be punctual with attendance.
• Proven excellent customer service skills and exemplary oral communication skills.
• Must have flexibility to work weekdays, weeknights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must maintain a professional appearance and demeanor and follow provided dress code guidelines.
• Must possess social awareness and be able to discern when an event needs additional security.
• Must understand and practice the Five Star customer service philosophy of the organization.
• Must be able to handle and prioritize multiple functions and responsibilities simultaneously.
• Must have reliable transportation.

Primary Job Duties

• Serves as the Day-of Host for weddings, corporate events, non-profit events, and SGE dinners on the day of their event.
• Has the option to work public, seasonal events fulfilling duties as assigned by the event coordinator.
• Attends and assists with final walk throughs and wedding rehearsals when possible.
• Ensures that the event space is open, clean, set up properly prior to the event, and properly secured after the event. 
• Greets and oversees vendors to ensure standards and policies are being met on event days.
• Assists clients, guests, and vendors with challenges, questions, and concerns in a polite and professional manner for the duration of their event.
• Greet guests politely as they enter and leave the venue.
• Directs guests to appropriate locations, such as parking, ceremony, cocktail hour, reception, restrooms etc.
• Creates a positive, relaxed, and professional atmosphere where guests can enjoy their experience.
• Assists with event needs such as, but not limited to, moving tables and chairs, clearing linens and tables, cleaning/mopping spills, and emptying trash cans.
• Has extensive knowledge of Stone Gables venues, buildings, supplies and innerworkings of the estate.
• Assists with event duties such as, but not limited to parking, driving guests in golf carts, tearing down chairs, handling animals, driving for photo loops, and helping with wagons and carriages.
• Is knowledgeable of the lighting systems, audio/visual systems, HVAC controls, and electrical and mechanical systems of each venue.
• Attends host team meetings as scheduled.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Context

Physical Demands/Environment:

• Regularly required to sit or walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk, hear; lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; use peripheral vision; depth perception; ability to adjust focus; work in wet or humid conditions and in outdoor weather conditions.
• Frequently required to stand, climb or balance; stoop, kneel or crouch; talk, smell; lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; use distance vision. Subject to cleaning chemicals.
• Occasionally subjected to lift and/or move over 100 lbs., work in high places.
• The noise level is usually moderate.

Comprehensive benefits package including (but not limited to):

• Competitive medical benefits (including PPO options, as well as a Qualified High Deductible Health Plan (QHDHP) option with Health Savings Account)
• Dental and vision insurance
• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D (Accidental Death & Dismemberment), with additional voluntary coverage options available for the employee and qualified dependents
• Paid Time Off, including holidays
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) plan with employer match