Science Communicators, Edinburgh Science Festival 2025

Pay: £12* per hour + holiday pay
Hours: full-time / short term contracts (festival period, including weekends)
Location: Festival Venues around Edinburgh

*Rate increase effective from 1 April 2025 to £12.21 per hour + holiday pay

We are looking for enthusiastic Science Communicators to join our Festival Team from 31 March – 20 April 2025!

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About the role:

Are you outgoing, do you enjoy working with the public, especially with families and children? 

As a Science Communicator with Edinburgh Science Festival, you will form part of the team delivering entertaining, hands-on workshops and events to children and young people in our fun-filled festival venues, primarily in our flagship venue - City Art Centre, in central Edinburgh and at the National Museum of Scotland.  You will be the face of the festival and will be knowledgeable, helpful and confident in dealing with the public.  You will need to successfully engage your audience and assist in set-up and delivery to ensure your event runs smoothly.

About you:

You are a confident presenter with good communication skills.  You can communicate clearly and confidently with colleagues/ members of the public and have the ability to remain calm under pressure.  You will be a quick learner, comfortable with scientific information.  Some experience working with children and families is a must.   Previous experience in Science Communication is beneficial as is experience working in education or learning support and do tell us if you have a first aid qualification.  You will enjoy working as part of a team in a fast-paced busy environment and ideally have some festival experience.  Enthusiasm and passion are key as is an ability to work hard during the Festival run.

You must be available to work full-time for all the dates in the Festival period.  There will be a mix of shorter and longer daily shifts available.

You will be required to attend the following mandatory training sessions:

 

Science Communication Training: Saturday 22 March 2025

Event Specific Training: 1 day between Saturday 29 – Monday 31 March 2025 (day tbc - workshop dependent)

CAC Schools Programme Monday 31 March – Wednesday 2 April 2025 (not all staff required, venue dependent)

Science Festival Lates: Thursday 3 April 2025 (not all staff required, venue dependent)

Festival live: Saturday 5 April – Sunday 20 April 2025

 

How to apply:

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

 

Click the link below to visit our dedicated careers portal. Please note that only applications submitted via our careers portal will be considered.

 

The closing date for applications is: Sunday 26 January, 11:59PM

Interview period from:  Monday 10 -  Thursday 20 February 2025

 

Please note:  By the start of any employment with Edinburgh Science, you must have the right to work in the UK and documentary evidence to support this.

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.