Staffing and Projects Manager

Pay: £150 per day (84 days)

Work Hours: On average 19.6hrs/ week over 30 weeks. Ideally - 14 hours per week for 19 weeks. 28 hours per week from early Feb – late April, with two weeks of 35 hour weeks for the live festival period (3 – 18 April 2027)

Duration: Temporary, approximately 30 weeks (84 days in total) between November and June.

Location: Edinburgh

Key Dates: Edinburgh Science Festival: 3-18 April 2027, Generation Science tour: Spring tour: 21 January - 25 March / Summer tour: 05 May - 04 June 2026

We are currently looking for a Staffing and Projects Manager to support our Generation Science and Festival projects. .

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About the role:

We are seeking a manager to provide high-quality staff management and project support to our organisation. This is an exciting and diverse opportunity to work on our largest UK projects: our annual Edinburgh Science Festival and our schools touring programme, Generation Science. The role is key to the smooth running of our busy programming and operations teams.  

You will focus on the recruitment, training and management of the temporary staffing teams for Generation Science (Edinburgh Science’s schools touring programme) and the Edinburgh Science Festival. You will also provide some project management support, helping to plan, execute, and deliver these projects within scope, budget, and schedule alongside the Senior Project Manager. 

You can find out more about both these projects at www.edinburghscience.co.uk   

 

About you:

We are looking for someone who has experience with staff management in a festival or events environment, leading or managing people. You will have previous experience recruiting and selecting high-quality teams as well as planning staff rotas and managing staff budgets. You will be an excellent communicator who can work to a high standard under pressure of deadlines and targets. You will have strong administration and organisation skills including experience in Microsoft Office suite – especially in Excel. You will have also had experience managing projects to ensure they are delivered on time and within budget and have some experience with project management tools 

Successful candidates for this post may be required to join the PVG scheme and subject to a criminal check through Disclosure Scotland. 

 

How to apply:

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: 1 November at 11:59PM       

Interviews will be held:  9-10 November 2026 

Temporary contract: this position is a part-time contract of 84 days over a period of approx. 30 weeks from mid November.  

 

View the full job description here: https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/JD-Temp-Staffing-and-project-Manager.pdf 

 

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.

 

Find out more about our Generation Science programme here https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/schools/primary/ and our Festival here https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/festival/  

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

  • Workshop Presenters & Performers, Generation Science
    Apply before 11:59pm on Sunday, 11th October 2026

    Delivery: £538 – £618 per week (+ holiday pay); full-time (40 hours per week). Training: £13.45 per hour.
    Work location: Training in Edinburgh. Tour throughout Scotland
    Training dates: 14 December 2026 – 20 January 2027 (exact dates still to be determined)
    Tour dates: Spring tour: 21 January – 25 March* / Summer tour: 5 May – 4 June 2027

    We are recruiting for Workshop Presenters & Performers to join our 2027 Generation Science Tour!

    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.