Technical and Production Manager
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- Term Time plus 10 with an FTE of £36,000 - £40,000 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 5 September 2022
- Apply by:
- 26 June 2022
Job overview
If you offer considerable technical theatre and production skills, this key role offers an opportunity to produce and support a wide variety of productions and events at one of London’s top day schools.
Wimbledon High School is abundant with performance opportunities and a number of venues, including The Rutherford Centre; a fantastic and versatile theatre, which boasts an impressive lighting and sound system. In September 2022, our brand new Sixth Form Centre opens, including a 600-seat auditorium, so this role offers the chance to join at an exciting time for the school.
As Technical and Production Manager, you will be responsible for providing technical support to ensure the smooth and safe operation of all performance venues owned and used by the School, as well as playing a key role in producing all our performances and events. You’ll line-manage the Theatre Technician and direct the work of the AV Technician.
You will provide technical support in relation to production, lighting, sound, AV, staging and seating for school productions, performances, rehearsals, lessons, assemblies and events, ensuring compliance with health and safety and operating procedures. You will also manage and produce live events through the School’s online platforms and set up and operate camera, mic, autocue and lighting equipment for live streamed events. You will also be responsible for managing a theatre and events technical budget.
You will need experience of programming lighting and putting together a basic lighting design, and the ability to work and operate radio microphone systems. Experience of planning and producing online events, both live and recorded, is also a key requirement, along with good knowledge of online events platforms such as Teams and Zoom.
About the School:
One of London’s top day schools, Wimbledon High School is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London.
Benefits
As part of the GDST, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further details and an application form please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 26 June 2022.
Interviews will take place on Thursday 30 June 2022.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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