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About the Role
The Royal Ballet and Opera is seeking a Costume Performance Assistant Manager to join their Technical, Production and Costume Department. This role is equivalent to a Wardrobe Manager/Master/Mistress within Running Wardrobe and plays a key part in ensuring the highest quality of performances through technical excellence.
Responsibilities
- Team leadership in costume provision for a large performance company.
- Backstage costume work and dressing techniques.
- Problem-solving and organizational tasks.
- Managing conflict and seeking resolution.
- Scheduling and recruiting staff members.
- Supporting the performance schedule with required hours, including evenings and weekends.
Requirements
- Substantial experience of team leadership in costume provision for a large performance company.
- Exceptional knowledge of backstage costume work and dressing techniques.
- Excellent problem-solving and organisational skills.
- Strong communication, leadership skills and confidence in managing conflict and seeking resolution.
- Meticulous accuracy.
- Familiarity with scheduling and recruiting staff members.
- Willingness and flexibility to work annualised hours, including evenings, weekends and other hours required to support the performance schedule.
- Work authorisation for the UK.
Skills
- Team leadership
- Costume provision
- Backstage costume work
- Dressing techniques
- Problem-solving
- Organisational skills
- Communication
- Conflict management
- Scheduling
- Staff recruitment
Location
- Covent Garden, London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full time
Salary/Compensations
- £50,492.64 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.
- Our Technical, Production and Costume Department plays a leading part in ensuring our performances are of the highest quality by delivering technical excellence for every performance, rehearsal, and event.
- 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 representative of 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, which means that we are actively working to ensure that candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace.
- We will endeavour to offer an interview to candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they meet the essential criteria for the role, though sometimes due to the volume of qualified candidates with declarations this is not possible.
- The RBO is also committed to safeguarding and protecting all children, young people, and adults and we implement robust safer recruitment practices.
- Due to our safeguarding promise, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check before commencing employment with us, which will be indicated in the advertising.