Job Summary:

Responsibilities:

• Function as emcee for onboard events and venues, requiring microphone use and stage presence
• Manage set-up/clean-up, facilitation and participation in all activities for an audience of children, adults and family activities
• Talk with Guests of all ages
• Look for Guest interactions while displaying boundless amounts of energy and enthusiasm
• Learn and perform scripted material and choreography
• Perform meet and greet functions in the lobby/atrium during Guest embarkation and disembarkation
• Perform meet and greet functions in front of Walt Disney Theatre at the start and conclusion of events within the theatre; provide help to Guests needing special assistance; assist with 'show stops' if necessary
• Host activities, games and trivia contests during televised sporting events, and Youth Activities programs
• Support recreational activities on Disney Castaway Cay/ Disney Lookout Cay as scheduled
• Help maintain appropriate Guest flow in all areas onboard, informing Guests of other onboard activities to ensure Guest participation; encourage program participation for all age groups
• Provide an emotionally and physically safe environment for Guests of all ages
• Conduct required sanitizing procedures based on USPH requirements when associated with appropriate programs and events
• Assist with dispatch of Port Adventures – meet Guests at assigned debark venue, spiel important excursion information, collect tickets and waivers and escort Guests to meet their appropriate vendor; escort Guests as the Disney quality representative, as scheduled
• Maintain stock and help distribute departmental supplies
• Help promote Crew events
• Follow scripts, but also ad lib
• Perform abbreviated shows based on weather conditions, safety issues, and Entertainment Management decisions
• Report costume, technical, and maintenance needs
• Prepare and strike programs ensuring proper clean-up, inventory program consumables, maintain costumes and cleanliness and order for program storage spaces

Basic Qualifications:

• Participation in the Audition/Interview process required
• Maintain Disney Character Integrity
• Perform in environments that have pyrotechnics, chemical smoke, haze, fog, dry ice, and other special effects
• Minimum two years experience working within a position that expresses hosting experience, stage experience and public speaking skills
• Minimum two years experience in a public relations, entertainment, guest services, resort/recreational, camp, or related field
• Relate well to audiences of all ages and demographics while offering a passion for engaging an audience in entertaining program and event
• Microphone skills, team skills, detailed, flexible, and committed to Guest Satisfaction
• Must be able to entertain and command the attention of large groups of Guests of all ages
• Willingness to learn dance routines and to dance in a 'club' style setting

Additional Information:

This is a SHIPBOARD role

You must:

• Be genuinely interested in a career at sea and willing to live and work onboard a Disney Cruise Line vessel
• Be willing to follow and perform safety role, emergency responsibilities and associated responsibilities as specified in the ship Assembly Plan
• Be willing to uphold the general safety management responsibilities as specified in the Safety Management System in areas and operations under their control
• If applicable, be willing to share a confined cabin with other crew members and appreciative of working and living in a multicultural environment that has strict rules and regulations

Your Responsibilities:

• Have a valid passport and C1/D Seaman's visa (DCL will provide you with documents to obtain this)
• Complete a pre-employment medical
• Obtain a criminal background check
• Bring approved work shoes

**Disney Cruise Line is a drug-free workplace. All new hires are required to undergo drug/alcohol testing within the first week onboard and throughout their contracts. Failure to pass the drug/alcohol testing will result in immediate termination.