Job Description

The Guildhall School of Music & Drama is a world-leading specialist Performing Arts conservatoire, investing in the artists of today and tomorrow. The School is a vibrant, international community of young actors, musicians, and production artists in the heart of the City of London. Ranked as the top conservatoire in the Guardian music and drama league tables, the School is a global leader of creative and professional practice, promoting innovation, experiment, and research, with over 1,000 students in higher education, drawn from nearly 60 countries around the world.

The successful candidate will work closely with the lecturers in Stage Management and other areas of the Production Arts Department, in providing high-quality technical support and maintenance for Guildhall productions and teaching, ensuring the highest levels of service to staff, students, and other venue users, and using safe working procedures at all times. You will support and guide students across all of Guildhall\xe2\x80\x99s world-class Drama and Opera productions. You will assist in the preparation of teaching spaces and materials and supervise their use for teaching exercises and production activity as well as managing the running, maintaining and cataloguing of the Props and Furniture Stores.

Working with and inspiring the students, acting as a role model for professional behaviour, you will supervise student activity and provide practical assistance including demonstrating techniques, including the use of Photoshop and CAD. You will also be supporting students in rehearsal activity, production work, and transporting goods during production periods, get outs, and transfers from venue to venue. A good knowledge of professional Stage Management is essential (for example in theatre, opera, live events, and entertainment arts), as is the use of social media (Instagram and Twitter) as a means of maintaining the visibility of the programme.

The successful candidate will have significant professional experience, a commitment to supporting and developing students\xe2\x80\x99 learning, and a commitment to equity and inclusion. The successful candidate will need to be able to drive and have a full, clean driving license.

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To apply online, please click Appliy online button below. Alternatively, please contact 020 7332 3978 (24hr answerphone) quoting GS9081. A minicom service for the hearing impaired is available on 020 7332 3732.

Closing date for applications: Friday, 20th October 2023 at 12 noon.

Interviews will be held in the week commencing 30th October 2023. Interviews will be held in person unless agreed or notified otherwise.

All applications must include a completed application form. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.

The City of London Corporation is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Guildhall School welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. We are particularly keen to encourage interest from people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, Black, Asian, and other global majority backgrounds who are currently under-represented at Guildhall School. In recognising the positive value of diversity, we want to better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve. We are members of the Disability Confident Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who would like to be considered under this scheme and who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. We support and provide adjustments for people with disabilities \xe2\x80\x93 if you have a disability and need help with the application process please contact us.

The Guildhall School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, workers, and volunteers to share this commitment.

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