Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Museum Tour Guide Lead

Are you passionate about the music industry? Do you love talking about fashion, culture, and history? Do you thrive in a storytelling environment? Are you a Prince fan looking for the opportunity of a lifetime?

Become a tour guide for Paisley Park, a place where art, music, fashion, and culture are celebrated, energized, and inspired by the visionary creative spirit of Prince. As a Tour Guide, you provide information on the cultural and historical significance of Prince and Paisley Park, answer content-related questions, and keep the tour organized, engaging, and safe for all.

Chanhassen, Minnesota

$20.00 - $22.50 per hour plus tips. Afternoon and weekend hours. Full Time

Responsibilities

• Protect, promote and preserve the historical legacy of Prince
• Provide an entertaining and inspiring scripted tour experience
• Engage and interact with guests; answer all questions
• Ability to memorize substantial amounts of information and take direction
• Training of new tour guides on the tour script
• Opening and closing the tour floor
• Administrative duties as needed
• Assisting with creating the monthly schedule
• Research information as required
• Effectively manage both large and small groups of people
• Conduct yourself professionally amongst guests and staff alike
• Assist guests in all types of situations, including emergencies
• Administer First Aid when required

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and friendly demeanor
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Exemplary story-telling ability
• Great time management skills
• Ability to manage a wide variety of personalities and emotions
• Handle sensitive issues and information confidentially
• Respond flexibly to the needs of a changing work environment
• Previous public speaking, acting, or teaching experience a plus
• Strong, clear speaking voice.
• Customer service experience preferred.
• Must be age 18+

Physical Demands

• Must be able to stand for long periods of time

Note: As Prince was a pescatarian, Paisley Park is a Pescatarian food environment while on the Paisley Park campus. Fish, eggs, and dairy are fine inside the building; beef, pork, chicken, and other meats can be eaten in your vehicle, or you may take meals off-site.

Paisley Park is a non-smoking campus

About Paisley Park

Paisley Park is an active museum, state-of-the-art recording studio, and concert venue. For nearly 30 years, the facility served as Prince's home, creative sanctuary, and production complex. Continuing Prince's vision for Paisley Park, today's venue welcomes fans, musicians, and audiophiles for tours, concerts, festivals, and special events.

Work Qualifications

Must be available to work the annual Prince Celebration event that falls around the first week of June.

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