Contract Type: 52 Weeks Full-Time
Contract Details: Permanent
Salary: Up to £27k per annum dependent upon experience
Working Hours: 40
Location: Stowe School
Closing Date: 04/02/2025
We are looking to recruit an experienced Theatre Technician to join our Theatre team at Stowe School. Your role will be to support the Theatre Manager and the Director of Drama to provide a state-of-the-art technical service including sound production and engineering, rigging, focusing and programming of lighting systems and audio-visual equipment.
You will assist with the training of Stowe design students, providing specific guidance including lighting, sound, costume, puppet and set design during lessons. You will provide high quality technical support, ensuring a safe and enjoyable experience for students, staff, patrons, and artists.
You will have a recognised qualification in stage management or technical theatre or have proven work-related experience in Theatre. You will have technical theatre skills including rigging and focusing of lights, programming lighting desks, usage of QLabs, installation, operation and maintenance of sound, lighting and audio-visual equipment. You will have excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills and work well using your own initiative and as part of a team.
Hours of work are dependent on the programme and vary from week to week. The nature of the role means there are periods of intense production work followed by quieter periods when the theatre is dark and so a highly flexible approach is required. The role requires a commitment to unsocial, late working hours, especially during productions, however this will be balanced out across other days/time of the year.
Stowe School
Stowe School occupies Stowe House and approximately 200 acres of the Stowe estate and is located in Stowe’s world-famous landscape gardens set in 880 acres. Stowe School is an independent co-educational boarding School with approximately 900 pupils. There are around 500 full and part-time staff with 60 staff and their families living on site. In January 2021, Winchester House and Swanbourne House Schools became part of The Stowe Group.
Our Schools are not only outstanding places to learn, they are great places to work too. We are committed to fostering team engagement, attracting, mentoring, developing and retaining our best teachers and support colleagues.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are central to The Stowe Group’s vision. We pride ourselves on our commitment as an organisation to welcome diversity, and we are committed to providing an inclusive environment where anyone with talent can thrive. To ensure we continue to best serve a diverse community, our ambition is to attract and retain a workforce that is representative of the diversity of our pupil body.
The Stowe Group 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, the Disclosure and Barring Service and an online background check with our third party provider.