Workshop Presenters & Performers, Generation Science 2026

Pay: £520 - £600 per week (+ holiday pay); full-time (40 hours per week)
Location: Training in Edinburgh. Tour throughout Scotland
Training: 12 January – 30 January (exact dates still to be determined)
Tour dates: Spring tour: 02 February – 27 March 2026 / Summer tour: 06 May - 03 June 2026*

We are recruiting for Workshop Presenters & Performers to join our 2026 Generation Science Tour!

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About Generation Science

Our touring programme for primary schools, Generation Science, is one of the UK’s premier science education outreach programmes. Since 1991, this initiative has traversed the educational landscape, reaching over a million pupils in schools. Over 30% of the programme is delivered for free, with all other state schools offered a heavily subsidised visit.

To find out more about our Generation Science Tour follow this link:

https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/schools/primary/

About the role

Are you energetic, great with children, and enthusiastic about science? Are you looking to build valuable experience for a future career in primary education, performing arts, or youth work?

We’re looking for:

  • Workshop Presenters to deliver fun, hands-on science workshop

  • Performers to captivate audiences with engaging science shows in primary schools across Scotland

About you

  • Confident communication skills and a passion for presenting

  • Some experience working with children

  • An eagerness to learn (performance skills and science knowledge are a bonus, but not essential)

  • A full driving licence with at least 1 year of driving experience (strongly preferred but not essential)

  • To live within 30 minutes of Edinburgh or Glasgow city centres

Training & Rehearsals

  • Held in Edinburgh throughout January 2026

  • Paid at £88.20 per full day (+ holiday pay)

Please note: Successful candidates must join the PVG scheme and will be subject to a Disclosure Scotland criminal record check.

To view the full job description visit: Job Description

How to apply:

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

The closing date for applications is: Sunday 5 October at 11:59PM

Interviews will be held between: 15 October – 24 October 2025

Selection Centre: 6 November 2025 (in person)
 

Note: This is a temporary fixed-term contract.

*There may be the possibility of other short-term contract work during our annual Festival in the weeks in-between.

 

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

  • Experience Guides - Careers Hive
    Apply before 11:59pm on Sunday, 14th September 2025

    Pay: £12.60 per hour
    Work hours: Approximately 20 hours over 4 days
    Location: National Museum of Scotland
    Key Dates: Training: 23 October 2025 / Live: 27 October to 30 October 2025

    Find out more

  • Zone Leaders - Careers Hive
    Apply before 11:59pm on Sunday, 14th September 2025

    Pay: £13.65 per hour
    Work hours: Approximately 30 hours over 4 days
    Location: National Museum of Scotland
    Key Dates: Training: 23 & 24 October 2025 / Live: 27 October to 30 October 2025

    Join our team as a Zone Leader for this exciting and interactive event at NMS for S1-S3 pupils.

    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.