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18 people are interested
Special Events & Rental Assistant
ORGANIZATION: Queens Botanical Garden
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18 people are interested
Mission
Queens Botanical Garden is an urban oasis where people, plants and cultures are
celebrated through inspiring gardens, innovative educational programs
and demonstrations of environmental stewardship.
The Queens Botanical Garden (QBG) is a private non-profit cultural institution located on 39 acres of New York City public land in Flushing, New York. The Garden serves nearly 210,000 visitors each year; a visitor survey reveals that 75% of all visitors speak a language other than English at home. This astounding fact underscores the importance of the Garden’s mission and the challenges and opportunities it faces daily in creating programs, exhibits and landscapes that serve the needs of one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the nation. The Garden has committed itself to addressing the complex and ever changing needs of its diverse community and to being the place where people, plants and cultures meet.
Assist Special Events Manager in the production of events and special projects and provides friendly, courteous, polite and helpful customer service. Responsibilities Include, but is not limited to:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist with client communications when necessary
- Assist and support organizing and events manager in day-to-day tasks
- Greet guests and take care of their needs at special events
- Ensure that all room and event setups are completed
- Prepare client correspondence and assist with client communications when necessary
- Monitor voicemail and email when needed
- Create and send follow up letters for each event, as well as thank you cards
- Answers telephone promptly and consistently
- General light cleaning
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstration of excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
- Dependability and punctuality, attention to detail,
- Ability to follow-through on tasks until completion,
- Ability to stand for long periods of time, ability to lift and move furniture,
- Positive image and tidy appearance,
- Willingness to work and learn,
- Ability to understand and follow specific instructions and procedures.
Scheduling flexibility; Ability to work weekdays, evenings and weekends.
More opportunities with Queens Botanical Garden
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Queens Botanical Garden
Location:
43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11355, US
Mission Statement
The Queens Botanical Garden, a living museum serving the most ethnically diverse county in the United States, is committed to presenting collections, education and research initiatives and programs that demonstrate environmental stewardship, promote sustainability and celebrate the rich cultural connections between people and plants.
Description
The Queens Botanical Garden (QBG), located at the northeast corner of Flushing Meadows Corona, is a private, nonprofit cultural institution that evolved from the 5-acre "Gardens on Parade" exhibit showcased at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Officially opening as the Queens Botanical Garden in 1948, QBG is now one of the City's 34 Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) members, featuring 39 acres of City land under its care.
QBG serves one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States. Nearly 300,000 people, speaking any of the more than 140 languages or dialects heard throughout the borough of Queens, visit the Garden annually. QBG is the primary source of botanical education for children and adults in the borough, fostering healthy connections between people and nature.
The Visitor & Administration Building, opened in September 2007, was designed to achieve the highest (platinum) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating. It includes three working roofs: one with solar panels to capture and use the sun's energy, another to collect rain for water uses, and a green, planted roof that is accessible to the public. It also makes exemplary use of natural ventilation and daylight, and includes a geothermal heating exchange system, composting toilets and other environmentally green technologies. The landscape portion of this ambitious project includes a cleansing biotope and constructed wetlands, as well as woodland, prairie and aquatic plant communities native to the New York region. The building is one of three green museums written of in Metropolitan Home magazine (Jan/Feb08),and The New York Times has highlighted the new structure as "something special" (January 20, 2008).
QBG continues to be a community facility while working to become a national leader among botanic gardens in cross-cultural programs and sustainable practices. As New York City has the lowest ratio of green space per capita of any major city in the United States, this project gives New Yorkers the opportunity to participate in a green demonstration project that reveals the connections between global conservation and local sustainability, deepening the visitor experience as we seek to teach, inform, and inspire
QBG is continually developing programs and exhibits that utilize the enormous educational potential of the green technologies that are utilized in the Garden's facilities and landscapes. Public education programs are accessible to all Queens residents as well as families in the other boroughs of New York and beyond. Crafts, hands-on activities, tours, story telling, music and dance movements contribute greatly to making the lessons of environmental sustainability and cultural connections relevant and dynamic. In addition to our well-reputed workshops and tours, QBG offers children and adults a rich array of programs in horticulture, environmental education and cultural arts that promote the Garden's dual vision of environmental sustainability and cultural expression, including Arbor Day, HSBC's Children's Garden and the popular Gardening Day.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
43-50 Main StreetFlushing, NY 11355
DATE POSTED
August 23, 2017
SKILLS
- Event Design & Planning
- Event Management
- Event Planning / Management
- Customer Service
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Part-time, weekends and evenings