Mulberry Production Arts Academy and Venue Technician

Our School

Mulberry School for Girls is an 11-18 comprehensive community school with 1,600 students on roll, close to Whitechapel and Shadwell in the London borough of Tower Hamlets.  A successful and popular school in the local area, Mulberry’s accolades include Leading Edge, Training School, Arts School, International School and Healthy Schools’ status. The school is fully inclusive in all year groups, including the Sixth Form, and in July 2013 Ofsted graded the school ‘Outstanding’.

Our Community

We are committed to supporting young people to overcome the barriers that poverty and social exclusion create, ensuring that all students are able to achieve their full potential. This has inspired us to build up a broad network of partnerships, incubating and invigorating student experience, opportunity, drive and success. 

There should be no barriers to a child’s future and society should, and can, be a level playing field. Aspiring for this to be reality we promise to:  

• Emphasise high quality subject teaching, reinforced by excellent support for learning and intervention. 
• Deliver inclusion services that assist personal development. 
• Provide excellent pastoral care so no student goes unsupported. 
• Continually develop strong leadership and have high levels of expertise in education

Our partners

We want our students to have access to the same professional connections which young people from more privileged backgrounds can utilise. To make this a reality we have a wide range external partners in higher education, business, industry, the arts and the sciences who contribute extensively and fundamentally to our extra-curricular activities.

• Bank of America Merrill Lynch

• Barts Health NHS Trust

• British Film Institute

• London Stock Exchange Group

• Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd

• National Theatre

• The Prince’s Trust

• Southbank Centre

• WOW Foundation

• University of Cambridge

Bringing Down Barriers to Success

We are proud to inspire our students through a diverse and representative teams and welcome applications from all of the communities we serve. 

If you have the experience and passion to energise Tower Hamlet’s next generation of leaders, creators and innovators, then we want to see how we can support you in that pursuit.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and ethnic minorities. We want the best staff and we know that means a diverse staff.

Encouraging a happy and healthy work environment

We take staff wellbeing seriously at Mulberry Schools Trust, here are just some of the great benefits for all staff.

• Local Government Pension scheme

• Employee assistance programme and support

• Free breakfast 

• Free gym onsite 

• Paid sabbatical opportunities

• Free onsite parking

• Subsidised staff restaurant with outdoor roof terrace

• Annual programme of conferences and Trust wide events with high profile speakers

• Cycle to work scheme

• Annual service award

• Long service awards

About the role

The successful Mulberry Production Arts Academy & Venue Technician will join a team of four including the Associate Headteacher who are responsible for Mulberry Arts. The successful candidate will be working closely with the Operation Manager (Venues & Events) to support the smooth running of all performance venues across the Mulberry Schools Trust including three purpose built theatres, and in particular the delivery of the Mulberry Production Arts Academy.

Mulberry Arts

Mulberry’s pioneering work in the Arts has a hugely positive impact on the whole school community. We have a specialist team dedicated to developing and promoting the students’ skills in the Arts, including through our own theatre and dance companies. All students are involved in arts activities, with every student at KS4 taking at least one Arts subject. In 2009, Mulberry School for Girls became the first state school to be awarded a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for their performance of The Unravelling, the final instalment of a trilogy of plays written by playwright Fin Kennedy.  

The Mulberry Schools Trust owns and manages three professionally equipped performance spaces. A 150 seat theatre in the Mulberry & Bigland Green Centre (adjacent to Mulberry School for Girls) which opened in February 2013, and a 250 seat theatre, modelled on the National Theatre’s Dorfman, and flexible studio space at Mulberry UTC which opened in 2017. Development of the venues took place with theatre consultants Theatre Plan and Charcoalblue with installations by Audio Light Systems and Hawthorn. All venues were designed to support the learning journey of the students as they develop their production arts skills by including features such as a tension wire bridge, bridges and moveable bars. 

How to Apply

You will need to complete the application form on TES which includes your letter of application in the body of the form explaining why you are the perfect person for this rare and exciting opportunity. Please be aware that we can’t accept any CV’s for this post. 

Please complete your application directly online via TES. If you have any questions about the role or the process, please get in touch with us at hr@mulberryschoolforgirls.org. 

Start Date: Immediately

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will require an enhanced DBS clearance. We are dedicated to equality and valuing diversity.