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Actor in Residence

Actor in Residence

Westminster School

Westminster

  • Expired
Salary:
£15,000 for 9 months
Job type:
Full Time, Temporary
Start date:
September 2023 to May 2024
Apply by:
12 June 2023

Job overview

The Drama department is seeking an enthusiastic, creative and collaborative Actor in Residence who will be an integral part of our team, promoting excellence in performance drama throughout the school.

The post holder will be involved in all aspects of Drama at Westminster, and be prepared to be flexible and adaptable, according to the needs of the role and the department.

Ideal candidates will require a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Drama or a similar subject that is relevant to the role as well as experience of acting and/or directing a production.

This is a full-time (term-time only), fixed term contract from September 2023 to May 2024.

The core hours of work are 08:30 – 17:00, Monday to Friday and 08:30 to 13:00 on Saturday, during which the successful candidate will be teaching up to six periods per week. Flexibility would be required to support and attend evening and weekend performances. Further details will be discussed with shortlisted candidates at interview.

The salary for this role is a fixed fee of £15,000 for 9 months (September 2023 to May 2024). Additionally, there is a minimum teaching allowance of £4,834.83 which could increase based on the experience and qualifications of the successful candidate. This post is subject to a 3-month probation period.

Westminster is one of the UK’s leading academic institutions and is the only ancient London school to occupy its original site. Situated close to Parliament and Westminster Abbey, together with the stimulating diversity of the South Bank and West End, the School has a special atmosphere.

For further information and to apply please click the apply button.

The deadline for applications is 12th June 2023.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation. 

Westminster School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The School is a Registered Charity (no 312728).

About Westminster School

Westminster School is the perfect environment for happy and purposeful pupils. Pupils are intellectually, socially, ethically and politically engaged and our aim is to ensure that their enthusiasm for learning is developed further, allowing them to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them in the future.

While the School is one of the foremost centres of academic excellence in the country, its commitment to academic life does not make it a hothouse for passing examinations. Pupils’ success at examinations and entry to leading universities is instead a result of their enjoyment of academic enquiry, debate and search for explanation, well beyond published syllabuses. It is important also that pupils have the freedom to lead on projects outside of the classroom and embrace a whole range of extra-curricular activities and interests. A host of pupil-led Societies take place every week at the School and pupils can choose to study an additional language, play an instrument or two, volunteer in the local community, row along the Thames, take part in plays and musicals, and much more.

The School’s ethos resides in the enduring values of the liberal tradition reflected in the 1560 Charter of Westminster’s Elizabethan foundation, where it is stated that: ‘the youth which is growing to manhood, as tender shoots in the wood of our state, shall be liberally instructed in good books to the greater honour of the state’. Whilst academic and cultural attainments are highly prized at Westminster, the School is fully committed also to nurture each pupil’s spiritual, moral, emotional and physical development and wellbeing – with a particular emphasis on drawing out individual talent wherever it lies – and to prepare young people for fulfilled private and public lives.’

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