We are looking for a Casual Centre Assistant to join our team at our Nature Discovery Centre in Walton-on-the-Naze.

The Naze is a unique coastal landscape of outstanding geological and biological importance. As the most easterly peninsula in Essex, it is an important site for migrating birds and boasts a number of different habitats, both terrestrial and marine.

As a Casual Centre Assistant, post holder will work within retail and food and beverage and serving customers within in this visitor engagement role.

Working as part of the visitor centre team, the post holder will need to be a team player who can engage in a welcoming and professional way with our visitors both in retail and Food & Beverage - ensuring excellent customer service is always at the forefront. The successful applicant will be using the till, preparing and serving hot and cold refreshments, clearing tables, restocking retail stock and engaging with customers.

We are looking for a friendly individual with an interest in customer service to join Essex Wildlife Trust in this visitor engagement role. Our profits from the Nature Discovery Centre’s are used to fund the conservation, educational and other work key of the Trust.

We are recruiting a casual under a casual worker agreement. There are no set hours under a casual agreement, and any available hours are made available to casual to accept or decline.

Casual hours available will usually be between the hours of 9am and 5pm, Monday to Sunday, all-year round. The majority of available hours are likely to be during School Holidays and weekend opening hours. The role comes with an hourly rate of £12.21.

Please complete an application via our website by 9:00am on Friday 7th November 2025 with interviews arranged for the week commencing Monday 17th November 2025.