Venue Services Coordinator

Are you a driven events professional with a knack for creating seamless, high-impact experiences? As our Venue Services Coordinator, you'll step into an opportunity to shape and deliver exceptional hospitality experiences across our beautiful heritage venues. This is your chance to work at the heart of a high-performing team, drive commercial success, and make a real impact on how our spaces are experienced and enjoyed. If you're ready to grow your career in a role full of variety and potential, please read on to apply.

What the opportunity is:

• Employment with Museums of History NSW

• Clerk Grade 5/6. Remuneration package includes salary ($97,027 - $107,059), employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading.

• Temporary full-time employment up to May 2026

• The role will work across Sydney.

What we do
MHNSW brings together the museums, historic houses and associated collections previously in the care of Sydney Living Museums with the vast collection of more than 13 million items held by the former NSW State Archives. This includes one of the world's most complete and important collections documenting colonisation.

What you'll do with us:
This role will manage the coordination and delivery of all commercial venue hire bookings across MHNSW Portfolio sites to ensure a superior hospitality experience and to maximise revenue and profitability from all bookings.

For more information on the role contact Caroline Marando, Team Leader, Venue Services & Events, via or [email protected].

Click here for the role description including the capabilities required for this role.

What you need to do to apply
To apply you will need to submit the following:

• A one to two page cover letter outlining how your skills and experiences meet the essential requirements for this role.

• A current resume listing two referees, and

• Respond to the 2 targeted questions (no more than 300 words per answer). Your responses to the targeted questions should be submitted online during your application and not included in the covering letter.

What you need to tell us - Targeted questions:
1.Please provide an example where you have increased revenue with the on-sale of equipment & services.
2.What experience do you have delivering events in a high-volume heritage environment?

Essential requirements of the role:

• Current Responsible Services of Alcohol (RSA) certificate.

• Current NSW driver's licence.

• Willingness to work across and ability to travel to multiple work locations.

• Experience working in venue management within a large heritage and or cultural context.

• Ability to manage lifting, carrying, standing, kneeling and moving around large sites in both internal and external environments.

Also note:

• For additional resources to help prepare your application and understanding of the process please refer to Applying for a job.

• To be eligible for an ongoing role in the NSW Public Sector you need to be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident. For temporary and casual roles, you need to hold a valid visa giving you permission to work in Australia as required by the role.

• All successful candidates will be required to undergo a criminal record check with NSW Police.

• A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

Submit your application before the closing date: 11.59pm Tuesday 8 July 2025.

Diversity and Flexible Working
We are expert keepers and tellers of history, and its many stories, peoples, and cultures. We want to create a team and workplace that reflects this diversity as well as the diversity in the communities we serve. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better, more inclusive results and connects our people to our communities, to our history, and to each other.

Our vision is to support and empower First Nations people, communities and culture, and across the sites that we care for, we are committed to shifting perspectives, truth telling and delivering honest reflections on history.
We understand that flexibility means different things to different people and are committed to offering flexible work arrangements where and when possible.

If you are a First Nations applicant who would like to have a yarn about the role, or require additional support, please contact Hayden Walsh our Senior Advisor First Nations Employment & Engagement on or via [email protected].

Our team can provide alternative formats to apply, make adjustments to the recruitment process and offer information about workplace adjustments and support networks.

If you are a person who requires adjustment and would like to request assistance, please contact Liz Akerboom on or via [email protected].

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Information on adjustments available for the recruitment process.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.