Evening Programs Interpreter, Attendant​/Cresset; Part Time

Job Category: Historical Performing Arts & Interpretation

Requisition Number: EVENI
003427

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• Posted :
  October 10, 2025
• Part-Time

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GREENHOW WEST
120 W. Duke of Gloucester Street
Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA

Founded in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is a private, not-for-profit educational, historic, and cultural institution that owns and operates one of the largest and best-known museum complexes in the world. Our mission is “that the future may learn from the past” through preserving and restoring 18 th
-century Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital. We engage, inform, and inspire people to learn about this historic capital, the events that occurred here, and the diverse peoples who helped shape a new nation.

Today, Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living history museum in the U.S. The Historic Area is the 301-acre restored colonial capital with 89 original buildings and 525 buildings reconstructed to how they appeared in the 18th century through extensive archaeological, architectural, and documentary research. The Historic Area is staffed by highly trained, historically dressed interpreters and expert tradespeople who bring the 18th century to life.

The Foundation also owns and operates two world-class museums, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, The Bob and Marion Wilson Teacher Institute, and a renowned research library, the John D Rockefeller Jr Library.

Additionally, Colonial Williamsburg is home to five world class accommodations at the Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg Lodge Autograph Collection, the Griffin Hotel, the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotels and Suites and the unique Colonial Houses in the Historical Area. Visitors may also indulge in food and drink at our many on site restaurants and taverns that blend a historically inspired dining experience with today’s evolved tastes.

Each year over 5 million people visit Williamsburg and another 20 million engage with us digitally.

Building attendants and cresset attendants support Evening Program and Special Event operations by preparing buildings, setting up lighting, greeting guests, checking tickets, and providing exceptional guest service and hospitality.

• Building and cresset attendants provide illumination for Evening Programs and Special Events using lanterns, candles, and cresset baskets by:
  • chopping and splitting wood, ensuring that an adequate supply is on hand for each cresset
  • building bonfires and fires in the cresset baskets and feeding fires to ensure adequate supplies of light.
  • arranging historic buildings for evening programs prior to events, including arranging furnishings and artifacts, candles, lanterns, and other lighting devices, and then replacing everything to the correct position after the program.
  • maintaining lanterns, globes, and cresset baskets, including moving burning cressets to new locations as needed and extinguishing cressets and candles at the end of the programming following fire safety protocols.
  • monitoring audiences and crowds to ensure compliance with fire safety protocols.
• Building and cresset attendants provide exceptional guest service by:
  • greeting and escorting tickted guests into buildings, answering general questions, and providing general conservation comments.
  • orienting visitors and responding to guest questions.
  • maintaining a caring attitude guided by integrity, truthfulness, fairness, courtesy, and respect for the individual.
• Building and cresset attendants work collaboratively to achieve the mission of Colonial Williamsburg by:
  • modeling the organization’s personal/professional expectations.
  • participating as an active member of a team.
• Building and cresset attendants perform other…