About the Role
This role is responsible for the management and delivery of all Sound and Video operations for the stage, and line managing the Broadcast (Engineering Support) staff for external broadcasts of our productions, ensuring safe and effective delivery within agreed resources and budgets.
Responsibilities
- Management and delivery of all Sound and Video operations for the stage.
- Line managing the Broadcast (Engineering Support) staff for external broadcasts of our productions.
- Deliver operations safely and effectively within agreed resources and budgets.
Requirements
- Thorough understanding of current sound and video equipment and systems.
- Lively interest in new product developments.
- Experience of sound and video in a performance environment, preferably a large producing theatre or organization.
- Demonstrable understanding of H&S requirements.
- Experience of risk management and documentation.
- Proven experience of managing teams and projects with consistent high production standards.
- Positive leadership style, leading by example with a collaborative approach.
- Ability to manage conflict and seek resolution.
- Demonstrated ability to build good relations with artistic teams.
- Applicants must have work authorization for the UK.
Skills
- Technical skills
- Leadership qualities
- Sound operations
- Video operations
- Broadcast engineering support
- Health and Safety (H&S) requirements
- Risk management
- Project management
- Team management
- Conflict resolution
- Relationship building
Location
- Covent Garden, London
Work Type
- Full-time
- 42.5 hours per week average (annualised hours)
- Evening/weekend flexibility
Experience Level
- Management experience
Salary/Compensations
- £55,672.9 per annum
About the Company
- The Royal Ballet and Opera continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms.
- Our Covent Garden theatre has been at the heart of London and British cultural life for three centuries.
- We are home to two world-class Companies: The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera.
- The Royal Opera House describes the place we work, not who we are.
- The impact and influence of the organisation can be felt in every corner of the country, and around the world.
- The Royal Ballet and Opera is one of the UK’s leading arts organisations and our aim is to inspire imagination, ignite emotion and make the extraordinary for everyone.
Equal Opportunity
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion underpin all that we do.
- We want our people to be צוrepresent the diversity in the UK.
- We understand the creativity and innovation that diversity can bring and strive to create an inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive.
- We encourage applications from people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and skills to join our teams.
- We particularly welcome applications from those who are from a global majority background and/or those who are disabled, as they are under-represented within our organisation.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer.
- We are committed to safeguarding and protecting all children, young people, and adults and we implement robust safer recruitment practices.
