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Audio Visual Technician

Audio Visual Technician

Harrow School

Harrow

  • Expired
Salary:
Contact the Recruitment team for details.
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
21 May 2024

Job overview

Permanent, full time, 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday

The role: The Audio Visual Technician designs, develops and maintains the AV systems in Harrow School, including fixed AV in classrooms, meeting rooms, lecture spaces and AV installations for events. You will take responsibility for being completely familiar with all the kit around the estate, keeping it in working order and supporting the staff who need your expertise to operate it. It’s a varied role where you can establish yourself as ‘the resident expert’ in AV, with the opportunity to influence the design and installation of new equipment by liaising with contractors, or even involve yourself in some basic video editing to add polish to the School’s video resources.

The skills: This role will suit someone who has a passion for all things audio visual, perhaps even already indulging in it as a hobby. You will enjoy a level of independence as you manage your workload to support staff AV requirements, whilst also taking pride in being a helpful, flexible team member whom your department can rely upon when AV issues arise unexpectedly. Customer service will be very important to you, as you will build professional working relationships of mutual respect with your colleagues of all levels of seniority and establish your reputation as a calm, reliable and knowledgeable AV specialist. 

The benefits include: 

  • Free lunch.
  • Free parking.
  • Automatic enrolment in the School’s pension scheme.
  • Use of the School’s sports facilities such as the swimming pool, gym, and running track.
  • Subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.

The environment: Harrow School is situated within a beautiful site in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world, with around 840 boys studying at Harrow. The ICT network covers the whole School site: every boy has a computer, every teacher and some of the support staff have networked computers in their School accommodation (over a two-square-mile radius), and many support staff have a networked computer in their area of work. The ICT department (a team of ten) is responsible for the development and maintenance of Harrow School’s computing, network, audio-visual and telephone facilities. There are over 1,500 PCs and mobile computers, spread over 60 buildings.

Applications will be processed as they are received and we may interview suitable candidates before the closing date; therefore early application is advised.

Equality, diversity and inclusion are values that are important to us at Harrow. We believe in diversity of thought and actively welcome anyone regardless of their background to bring their valuable and relevant skills to our community.

The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo enhanced child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service, and it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. No member of staff will be able to start until these checks are complete and this process takes, on average, a month. Please plan accordingly.

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About Harrow School

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  • Harrow School
  • 5 High Street, Harrow on the Hill
  • Middlesex
  • HA1 3HP
  • United Kingdom
+44 20 8872 8000

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Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill in north-west London. The School is located on a 324-acre estate which encompasses much of Harrow on the Hill and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 837 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. Employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.

Harrow School is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18. It was established, by royal charter, in 1572 during the reign of Elizabeth I. It is operated as a Royal Charter Corporation, which is a charitable trust whose trustees are the school’s governors. The school licenses the Harrow name to a number of schools in Asia.

Head Master

Alastair Land

Values and vision

Harrow School believes that the success of students should not be measured purely by grades, but by their influence on the wider world.

The school believes that all organisations need strong and clearly expressed values to create identity, focus, unity and drive, and in order to answer the questions: “what do we belong to?”, “what’s important to us?”, "why do our collective efforts matter?”, and “what holds us together?”.

Harrow’s values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the school to make decisions from day-to-day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These four Values link closely to Harrow School’s Christian foundation, and the principles of “Godliness and good learning” established by its founder, John Lyon.

ISI report

“Pupils are high achievers in all areas of their academic lives. Their success owes much to the strong and supportive boarding community to which they all belong and which gives the encouragement to work hard and aim high, and the confidence to set themselves ambitious goals.”

“Pupils invariably work hard and utilise their strong motivation and desire to succeed, and this is one of the main drivers in their success. The strong progress they make, and their all-round excellent achievement is enabled by many innovative approaches and initiatives introduced by school leaders.”

View Harrow School’s latest ISI report

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