Ski-Val is an independent, family run business with over 30 years experience of catered, chalet ski holidays to the top resorts in the Alps. We are delighted to welcome back many of our guests year after year and we strive to offer an excellent level of professional and personal customer service from the first stages of booking through to the very last day of the holiday.

Our resort staff are very important to us; they represent the company and play an important part in ensuring our guest’s overall enjoyment of their holiday. We value and look after our staff and in testament to this many return to work with us for two, three or perhaps more seasons.

There is not a typical mould we recruit to as we think a mix of characters; background and experience help form a more enjoyable and successful team work ethic. However there are certain characteristics we look for in all our staff – the ability to work hard, commitment, excellent ‘people skills’, a good sense of humour and ultimately the desire to ensure your guests have a fantastic week’s holiday. So, if you love meeting and mixing with new people, are motivated and conscientious, up for a challenge and happy to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in then you are just the kind of candidate we look for.

In return for your hard work and commitment we offer a competitive package including your travel to and from the resort, full area ski pass, ski hire, board and lodging and a uniform.

vacancies for the 2010 - 2011 season are advertised below, if you would like to apply, please email your CV and a covering letter to David Birkby at david@skival.co.uk. Alternatively you can download an application form and send it in the post.

Please note we only accept applications from EU passport holders, resident in the UK with a UK National Insurance number.

Chalet Cooks

As a Chalet Cook you will be working on your own or as part of a team and your primary responsibility will be to provide your guests with outstanding food during their holiday, including a cooked breakfast, home baked afternoon tea and a stunning 4 course evening meal. You should have a ‘nothing is too much trouble’ attitude and go out of your way to make your guests feel welcome, at ease and well looked after.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing a full breakfast, afternoon tea and four course evening meal six days a week
• Creating a warm, friendly and ‘home from home’ atmosphere in your chalet
• Menu planning, ordering food and shopping within a weekly chalet budget
• Submitting weekly chalet accounts and administration
• Cleaning bedrooms, bathrooms and communal areas of your chalet 6 days a week
• Keeping kitchen spotless and in line with high standards of hygiene and cleanliness

Skills & Experience:

• A passion for cooking and entertaining and the confidence to cook for 8 people + at a high dinner party standard
• Previous chalet cooking experience, catering experience or qualification preferred
• Friendly, outgoing, hard working, motivated
• Organised, reliable, good time keeping
• Applicants must hold an EU passport and UK National Insurance Number

Chalet Couples

As a Chalet Couple you will work with your partner to run a successful and welcoming chalet and ensure your guests have a fantastic holiday. You will responsible for providing your guests with outstanding food during their holiday, including a cooked breakfast, home baked afternoon tea and a stunning 4 course evening meal. You should have a ‘nothing is too much trouble’ attitude and enjoy helping your guests to feel comfortable, happy and well looked after.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing a full breakfast, afternoon tea and four course evening meal six days a week
• Creating a warm, friendly and ‘home from home’ atmosphere in your chalet
• Menu planning, ordering food and shopping within a weekly chalet budget
• Submitting weekly chalet accounts and administration
• Cleaning bedrooms, bathrooms and communal areas of your chalet 6 days a week
• Keeping kitchen spotless and in line with high standards of hygiene and cleanliness

Skills & Experience:

• A passion for cooking and entertaining and the confidence to cook for 8 people + at a high dinner party standard
• Previous chalet cooking experience, catering experience or qualification preferred
• Friendly, outgoing, hard working, motivated
• Organised, reliable, good time keeping
• Applicants must hold an EU passport and UK National Insurance Number

Chalet Hosts

Working as part of a team you will support the Chalet Chef in the daily running of the chalet and hosting of the chalet party, making sure they have everything they need to enjoy their holiday. You should have a “nothing is too much trouble” attitude and go out of your way to make your guests feel welcome, at ease and well looked after.

Responsibilities include:

• Cleaning bedrooms, bathrooms and communal areas of your chalet 6 days a week
• Laying the table, serving and clearing meals
• Assisting the Chalet Chef with food preparation and chalet administration if required
• Ensuring guests are comfortable and the chalet is an inviting and homely environment
• Being sociable, chatty and helpful towards your guests

Skills & Experience:

• Previous hospitality and customer service experience
• Excellent communication skills and a love of meeting and mixing with new people
• The ability to think on your feet and solve problems
• A flexible, enthusiastic and proactive approach to your work
• Friendly, outgoing, well presented
• Hard working, reliable, good time keeping, organised.
• Applicants must hold an EU passport and UK National Insurance Number.

Hotel Hosts

We are looking for enthusiastic, capable team players to work in our chalet hotel in Val d’Isere. You will be responsible for making the hotel a warm, welcoming and tidy environment for your guests and will go out of your way to ensure they have a truly enjoyable and memorable holiday. Working as a team, you will support your colleagues and Hotel Manager in your daily duties which include:

• Cleaning bedrooms, bathrooms and communal areas
• Setting up of the dining room, laying the table, serving and clearing meals
• Helping to create a welcoming and homely environment in the hotel
• Assisting in other areas of hotel such as kitchen or bar if necessary
• Being sociable with your guests and responding promptly and proactively to their request.

Skills & Experience:

• Previous customer service and / or hospitality experience
• Excellent communication skills and a love of meeting and mixing with new people
• A flexible, enthusiastic and proactive approach to your work
• You must be a team player and be happy to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in where necessary to help your colleagues
• Confident, friendly, outgoing and well presented
• Hard working, reliable, good time keeping, organised
• Applicants must hold an EU passport and UK National Insurance Number

Plongeur

The most glamorous job in resort! You will work in the kitchen in our superbly located chalet hotel in Val d’Isere. You are primarily responsible for washing up and assisting the Chef in keeping the kitchen spotless and in line with the high standards of hygiene and cleanliness. However you must be prepared to be a ‘jack of all trades’ as you may need to assist with food preparation, front of house hosting, serving behind the bar etc.

Responsibilities include:

• Washing up, putting the rubbish out and generally helping to keep kitchen clean and tidy
• Assisting Chef and Hotel Manager with any ad hoc duties around the hotel
• Assisting Hosts with general hotel cleaning on changeover day

Skills & Experience:

• Previous customer service and / or hospitality experience
• Excellent communication skills and a love of meeting and mixing with new people
• A flexible, enthusiastic and proactive approach to your work
• You must be a team player and be happy to roll your sleeves up and get stuck in where necessary to help your colleagues
• Confident, friendly, outgoing and well presented
• Hard working, reliable, good time keeping, organised
• Applicants must hold an EU passport and UK National Insurance Number

Resort Reps

We are looking for mature and experienced candidates to take on the varied and challenging Repping role in either St Anton or Val d’Isere. The ideal candidate will be able to balance their outgoing, sociable and fun nature with the ability to work hard and put their guests first.

The key role of the Rep is to look after all aspects of your guests’ welfare during their holiday. You will need to build excellent relationships with your guests and it is therefore vital that you are a confident, friendly person who loves meeting and mixing with new people. As Rep you must support your Managers in the running of the resort and your role will vary from day to day; it is therefore vital that you have a flexible and proactive approach and are prepared to roll your sleeves up and muck in wherever necessary.

You must have an in depth knowledge of the resort so you can answer your guests questions and help them to make the most of their holiday. You will also organise and promote an après ski program for your guests and host ski away days.

You will also work with your Chalet or Resort Manager to monitor and maintain standards in the chalets you Rep, and you should be able to recognise and resolve any potential trouble areas.

Skills & Experience:

• Customer service experience
• Previous ski season experience, particularly running a chalet, highly advantageous
• A competent skier
• Full, clean driving license
• Good spoken French or German
• Organised, proactive, motivated
• Friendly, energetic, confident socialising with a variety of people and well presented
• The ability to think on your feet and solve problems efficiently
• Able to cope well with stressful situation
• Applicants must hold an EU passport and UK National Insurance Number

Responsibilities include:

• Daily visits to your chalets to speak to guests, answer questions etc
• Monitoring the standards of service in the chalets and helping your Resort or Chalet Manager to deal with any areas of concerns
• Repping transfer buses and greeting guests at airport on transfer days
• Selling ski packs on transfer coaches, collecting money, delivering lift passes etc
• Being a point of contact for guests in case of emergencies and dealing with appropriately
• Having an in-depth knowledge of the resort and services
• Organising and promoting an après-ski program
• Recommending and booking restaurants
• General ad hoc duties around resort, such as delivering cots, highchairs, shopping runs etc
• Covering chalet staff who are sick or injured if required
• In St Anton – recycling duties
• Driving resort vehicles for guest shuttles, transfers, staff shopping etc

Bar Person / Host – Val d’Isere

We are looking for an outgoing, sociable and hard working individual with previous bar experience to work in the bar in our Chalet Hotel in Val d’Isere. You will report into the Hotel Manager and also assist with Hosting duties around the hotel as and when required.

It will be up to you to make the bar successful and to establish excellent relationships with the hotel guests throughout their holiday, making them feel welcome and comfortable. As the hotel barman you will have responsibility for the drinks menu, stock taking, ordering and submitting weekly accounts to your manager. You will think of creative and effective ways to attract your guests into the bar and ensure it runs successfully throughout the season. 

Responsibilities include:

• Stock taking and ordering
• All bar moneys – cash handling, cashing up, delivering cash to Resort Manager
• Weekly bar accounts and paperwork
• Putting together an appropriate drinks menu
• Running events to attract your guests (e.g. Christmas Eve, New Years Eve parties etc) and adapting your offerings according to your guests throughout the season
• Keeping bar area and stock room clean and tidy
• Establishing good relationships with your guests and creating a welcoming environment where they can relax and enjoy a drink
• Assisting with Host duties such as housekeeping and serving meals

Skills & Experience:

• Previous experience of working in a bar essential
• Previous accounting experience highly advantageous
• Organised and efficient with paperwork
• Driven, motivated and resourceful
• Good spoken French
• Sociable, outgoing and confident chatting to a variety of people, well presented
• Hardworking, reliable and with a flexible approach to your work
• Applicants must hold an EU passport and UK National Insurance Number

Resort Accountant / Rep

We are looking for a mature and capable individual for our Resort Accountant and Rep role in St Anton. The role is a varied and challenging one and for the right candidate will offer the unique opportunity to undertake serious responsibility, whilst also being able to enjoy the client facing and social side of Repping.

There are two parts to the role, on the one hand you will be responsible for all resort accounts including entering all information and figures onto our company accounts package and sending back to the UK on a weekly basis. In addition to this you will also have some chalets to Rep. As a Rep, you will need to look after all aspects of your guests’ welfare during their holiday. You will need to build excellent relationships with your guests and it is therefore vital that you are a confident, friendly person who loves meeting and mixing with new people. 

Responsibilities include:

• Reconciling weekly “Ski pack” and chalet accounts
• Processing payments in resort for ski hire, lift passes etc
• Entering all required information onto our company accounts package on a weekly basis
• Distributing cash to chalets, collecting chalet accounts, entering onto company system and ensuring chalets are within allocated budgets, tackling any areas of concern
• Processing resort suppliers’ invoices, making payments and reconciling purchase ledger accounts
• Liaising with UK office to manage weekly resort cash flow
• Repping approximately 3 – 4 chalets and looking after all aspects of guest welfare within these chalets
• Airport and transfer duties, organising an après-ski program and hosting ski away days
• General repping ad hoc duties such as recycling, driving resort vehicles, helping to cover sick or injured chalet staff etc
• Supporting Resort Manager and Chalet Manager in successful running of resort

Skills & Experience:

• Previous accounting experience essential
• Previous ski season experience advantageous
• Competent skier
• Customer service experience
• Good spoken German preferred
• Highly organised and efficient,
• Able to prioritise and work to deadlines
• A flexible and proactive approach to your work
• Outgoing, sociable, well presented and confident mixing with a variety of people
• Applicants must hold an EU passport and UK National Insurance Number