Senior Bar Supervisor (Graduate Role)
Who are we?
We are Manchester Students’ Union, the biggest SU in the country, supporting over 40,000 students throughout their time at university. We help to make student life the best it can be by supporting students to campaign for change, creating opportunities to meet new people, providing employment opportunities, providing advice and support and being a safe place on campus.
We are a values-centred organisation that employs around 90 permanent, full-time members of staff. We recruit a wide range of roles throughout the year within all our departments from our Commercial team operating Manchester Academy Venues, 13 Media, Bar 532 & Kitchen and Corridor Coffee to our Student Activities, Student Engagement, Marketing and Communications, Finance, HR and Facilities teams. Our team of around 400 part-time, studying staff are instrumental in providing to support to all departments as well as leading major projects like Student Angels. When you join UMSU, you’ll be immersed in an environment that empowers staff to make great things happen and we're always on the lookout for innovative, passionate, and proactive people to join us.
Our values are really important to us and shape the work that we do every day. As part of our recruitment process, we want you to demonstrate how your experiences, behaviours and skills align with our values. You can find more detailed explanations of our values on our website.
About the role
Are you passionate about serving students the best drinks in Manchester? Do you love live music events and being active in the student social calendar?
As a Senior Bar Supervisor, your day-to-day focus will be working on 532 Bar and Kitchen across our four Manchester Academy venue bars. You’ll play a key role in the operational development of all our bars individually, while also gaining experience in the wider management and operation of a hospitality venue. This role is designed to build your skills and qualifications to help you progress into a management-level position within the hospitality industry.
532 Bar and Kitchen has been a staple of the student campus experience, and our Manchester Academy venue bars come with over 30 years of history in Manchester’s music scene, hosting the likes of Led Zepplin and David Bowie in the past, to the present day with artists like Muse and Billie Eilish. Within the role, you’ll learn to manage the bars of both sites, with support of the bar management team, and you will be leading a team of around sixteen student Team Leaders and over one hundred Student Bar Assistants, encouraging their development and enabling them to hit high standards of customer service and product delivery.
Throughout this role, you’ll discover the inner workings of a bar, including rota and staff management, event organisation, stock control, and more, alongside our bar management team of 4 full-time staff who all have their own specialty areas. We’ll support your professional development through internal training as well as supporting you to achieve accredited qualifications such as your Personal License, ACT (Action Counters Terrorism) and First Aid (EFAW) certification. As a Senior Bar Supervisor, you’ll support our commercial income generation, which will go on to fund impactful student services operated by other teams at the Students’ Union.
Please read the full role profile before applying, as well as our guide to recruitment.
Details
Salary: £24,520 per year
Contract: Full Time, Fixed-Term until August 2026
Hours: 35 hours per week
Our Reward Package
You'll get access to our reward package, which you can see here.
Recruitment Guide
We have a guide that explains our full recruitment process. We recommend reading through this before beginning an application.
If you are invited to interview with us, we will share our interview questions in advance so you can prepare your responses. We’re more interested in hearing about your experiences and ideas than in testing your memory, and so we want you to feel as prepared as possible.
Inclusivity and Accessibility
We are committed to equality of opportunity, and we work hard to ensure we appoint based on skill and values.
We particularly encourage applications from Disabled or Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African candidates as these groups are currently underrepresented in our staff team.
If you have any accessibility requirements or require adjustments to support you in applying to work with us, please get in touch. We can offer reasonable adjustments at all stages of our recruitment process.
Recruitment Timeline
Applications opened: 29th May 3pm
Applications close: 19th June 3pm
Interviews: 7th July
Role Commencing: August
We may close applications early if we receive a high volume of applications. We recommend that you apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. In this case, all applicants who have started an application will be contacted 2 hours before we close the role.
Contact
People Team:
You can contact the People Team with any questions regarding this vacancy or our recruitment process.
Email: jobs.su@manchester.ac.uk
Phone: 0161 306 3279
Hiring Manager:
You can contact the hiring manager with any questions regarding this vacancy or our recruitment process.
Email: craig.whittle@manchester.ac.uk