Staff Manager, Edinburgh Science Festival 2025

Pay: £115 pre-live period / £125 live delivery period (daily rate)
Dates/hours: January 20 – February 28 (4 days/28 hrs p/w) / March 3 – April 28 (full time)
Contract: Temporary, fixed-term contract 14 weeks
Location: Edinburgh

We have an exciting opportunity to work as part of our Festival Management Team in our 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival!

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About the role:

We are looking for someone with extraordinary organisational and people skills to recruit, train, programme and manage our temporary Festival staff including our Science Communicators, Front of House staff and Assistant Staff Managers.

This post is available initially on a part-time basis – 4 days per week from 20 January – end of February and then full-time, from March to end of April 2025.

Normal working hours out with the live Festival are usually 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. Some weekend and evening work will be required during the Festival training and live festival period.

About you:

You will have ideally worked in a festival/events environment with staff management responsibilities and have a sound understanding of festival/events settings.  You will bring exceptional people skills with experience in managing large groups of temporary staff.  Proven skills in recruitment and selection methods and training delivery are essential.  You will also be well organised, competent in using Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) and ideally in using Applicant Tracking Systems for recruitment.  You’ll be a natural at meeting tight deadlines and delivering high quality work within time and budget.

 

Edinburgh Science Festival will be held this year from Saturday 5 April – Sunday 20 April 2025, with training starting from the 27 March. It is imperative you are available throughout this time period including weekends.

 

How to apply:

To view the full job description visit: https://bit.ly/3UPRwh0

The closing date for applications is: Sunday 1 December at 11:59PM

Interviews will be held: 11 or 12 December 2024

 

Note: This is a temporary fixed-term contract.

 

 

At Edinburgh Science we welcome applications from all backgrounds because we believe that bringing together people with different perspectives, ideas and experiences always leads to better discussions, decisions and results

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Edinburgh Science

Edinburgh Science Foundation is an educational charity that inspires people of all ages and backgrounds around the world to experience the wonder of science and technology. Best known for Edinburgh’s annual Science Festival – the world’s first science festival and still one of the world’s largest – and for our Learning programmes that sees Generation Science tour Scotland and bring science to life in classrooms throughout the year and promotes STEM careers to teens through initiatives such as Careers Hive. An increasing worldwide element shares our content, passion and expertise more widely through an extensive portfolio of international projects.

Our mission is to inspire, encourage and challenge people of all ages and backgrounds to explore, understand and engage with the world around them and to communicate the educational, social and economic benefits of science and technology.

 

Our language is that of live experiences that amaze, inform and entertain in equal measure. We put the customer first whether they are the public, school teacher or pupil. We want to be the best before we are the largest. We thrive on creativity, rely upon professionalism and insist on accuracy. We believe in testing what we do assuming that rarely can an event not be improved. We respect and nurture the partnerships on which we depend for support, people and ideas. We know we are only as good as the people we work with and so value them all, here and abroad.