Assistant Staff Manager, Edinburgh Science Festival 2025

Pay: £15* per hour + holiday pay
Hours: Variable, including evenings and weekends
Location: One of our festival venues in Edinburgh

*Rate increase effective from 1 April 2025 to £15.26 per hour + holiday pay

Edinburgh Science Festival is recruiting for Assistant Staff Managers to join our team for the 2025 Festival, 31 March-20 April 2025 (depending on venue).

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About the role:

As part of the Staff Management team, you will support and assist all temporary staff working at the Festival.  Working in a fast-paced, busy environment with a dynamic group of staff, you will manage a team of Science Communicators in delivering workshops and activities and support the Front of House team in ensuring the smooth running of events in your venue.

 

About you:

An excellent problem solver with a flexible approach to work, you have skills and experience in taking initiative to resolve unexpected challenges.  You will have demonstrable staff management experience in an events environment, where you will have shown to be approachable, reliable, and supportive of team members.  You will have an ability to work to a high standard under pressure, while keeping organised and available to your team.

This role will be positioned in one our venues around the city, either working on our family programme at City Art Centre, National Museum Scotland, or across the festival at multiple venues.  Full training will be provided in advance.

 

You must be available to work full-time for all the dates in the Festival period.  Your availability to assist with training preparation, delivery and festival staff recruitment in February/March in advance of the live Festival dates will be discussed with you at interview.

  • Training: 22, 28, 29, 31 March, 4 April (venue dependent)
  • CAC Schools Programme: Monday 31 March – Wednesday 2 April 2025 (venue dependent)
  • Science Festival Lates: Thursday 3 April 2025 (venue dependent)  
  • Festival live: Saturday 5 April – Sunday 20 April 2025

 

How to apply:

To view the full job description visit: https://bit.ly/401vWcB

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

 

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.

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

Interviews will be held on: Wednesday 5 February 2025

 

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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Opportunities

  • Science Communicators, Edinburgh Science Festival 2025
    Apply before 11:59pm on Sunday, 26th January 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!

    Find out more

  • Team Leader, Edinburgh Science Festival 2025
    Apply before 11:59pm on Sunday, 26th January 2025

    Pay: £13 per hour + holiday pay*
    Hours: Full-time/ Short-term contracts (festival period)
    Location: Festival Venues around Edinburgh

    *Rate increase effective from 1 April 2025 to £13.23 per hour + holiday pay

    We are looking Team Leaders to join our Festival Team from 31 March – 20 April 2025!

    Find out more

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.