This job posting is for a New Work Assistant position at the National Theatre. The 18-month contract role provides administrative, production, and artist support across the New Work Department. Duties include welcoming visitors, coordinating finances and workshops, handling communications, and assisting with various production needs. The ideal candidate has experience in both administration and theatre production, is an enthusiastic team player, and passionate about the arts.
This job posting is for a New Work Assistant position at the National Theatre. The 18-month contract role provides administrative, production, and artist support across the New Work Department. Duties include welcoming visitors, coordinating finances and workshops, handling communications, and assisting with various production needs. The ideal candidate has experience in both administration and theatre production, is an enthusiastic team player, and passionate about the arts.
This job posting is for a New Work Assistant position at the National Theatre. The 18-month contract role provides administrative, production, and artist support across the New Work Department. Duties include welcoming visitors, coordinating finances and workshops, handling communications, and assisting with various production needs. The ideal candidate has experience in both administration and theatre production, is an enthusiastic team player, and passionate about the arts.
This job posting is for a New Work Assistant position at the National Theatre. The 18-month contract role provides administrative, production, and artist support across the New Work Department. Duties include welcoming visitors, coordinating finances and workshops, handling communications, and assisting with various production needs. The ideal candidate has experience in both administration and theatre production, is an enthusiastic team player, and passionate about the arts.
18 Months fixed term contract About the National Theatre HOURS
Our Purpose The National Theatre’s mission is to make world class theatre that’s entertaining, challenging and inspiring – and to make it for everyone. It aims to reach the widest possible audience and to be as inclusive, diverse and national as possible with a broad range of productions that play in London, on tour around the UK, on Broadway and across the globe.
The National Theatre's extensive UK-wide learning and participation programme supports young people and schools through performance and writing programmes like Connections, New Views and Let’s Play, while Public Acts creates ambitious new works of participatory theatre in sustained partnership with theatres and community organisations around the country.
The National Theatre extends its reach through digital programmes including NT Live, which broadcasts some of the best of British theatre to over 2,500 venues in 65 countries, and the National Theatre Collection, which makes recordings of shows available to UK schools and the global education sector.
The National Theatre invests in the future of theatre by developing talent, creating bold new work and building audiences, partnering with a range of UK theatres and theatre companies. About the New Work Department
The National Theatre’s New Work Department is housed in the National Theatre Studio and is the engine room for developing work towards production for all the National Theatre’s stages. The New Work Department team oversees a slate of commissioned plays and process-led work, focussing its capacity and resources on bringing them to fruition. It receives unsolicited script submissions year round, holds commissioning and dramaturgy, runs the Staff Director programme, devises courses and other opportunities for talent development and training, manages the Writers and Artists on Attachment, and Writer in Residence.
. Job Description New Work Assistant
Contract Type: 18 Month fixed term contract
Hours: 35 hours per week
The post holder will be scheduled on a rota with hours, either 8.30 to 4.30 or 11.00 to 7.00 (12pm-8pm on a Friday) Additional hours may be necessary in order to fulfil the post’s requirements.
Salary: £22,500 annually
We are looking for someone with an all-round knowledge of working in a theatre development space, with duties ranging from administration, production and technical, operations and artist facing. It will give the post holder a broad spectrum of skills and experiences with which to build their future career in the arts. Studio Manager
Duties and Responsibilities
Job Description New Work Assistant
1. To provide a warm welcome & support to all users of the NT Studio, stationed for part of the day at the front desk. 2. To co-ordinate the shared administration related to the New Work department activities through: expenditure, including coding & inputting invoices, reconciling credit card payments, liaising with artists, agents and providers to process payments in a timely manner. First point of contact for financial queries. 3. Assisting the Production & Technical Manager with liaising, organising, preparing and overseeing the workshop spaces for incoming artists, including coordinating regularly with other NT departments. Creating a safe and comfortable environment for everyone. 4. To be jointly responsible for officially opening up the building to the public each morning & closing down each evening, making sure the desk has presence from 9am-6.30pm (and 8pm on Fridays). To be first responder for health and safety, and security matters. 5. Collecting and returning resources from the NT props and costume stores, and running errands to the main NT building on a regular basis 6. To support the preparation and compilation of show invitations digest for the weekly shows meeting, responding and logging external correspondence via the generic departmental inboxes. Arranging meetings in response to enquiries where appropriate. 7. Handling external and internal enquiries via email or on the telephone & ensuring the smooth flow of information throughout the department, this will involve collecting post, booking theatre tickets, travel and accommodation, script printing and photocopying, booking taxis and transport as necessary. Responsible for the collection of personal data for freelancers in a secure and accurate manner. 8. Supporting the New Work Project Manager and Production & Technical Manager and team by carrying out any other duties as reasonably requested. 9. Supporting the National Theatre’s communications objectives by sharing information with your manager and colleagues as appropriate, whilst respecting confidentiality, so that you and your colleagues have all the information you need to perform your duties effectively. 10. Complying with the National’s Equal Opportunities and Health and Safety policies at all times.
Person Specification 1. Experience of being a central point of welcome and support; it is of the utmost importance that the candidate is warm, efficient and adaptable. 2. An able team player who has experience of multiple work flows and managing their time. 3. A basic experience of production, stage management and technical theatre, especially sound and video as the post holder will be required to set up technical equipment for workshops, readings and explorative environments. 4. Good administrative and IT skills with the ability to deliver work accurately and with great attention to detail, continually respecting confidentiality and discretion, 5. The confidence and ability to communicate and work with people from a wide range of backgrounds and skills, with a welcoming, supportive and enthusiastic attitude. Job Description New Work Assistant
6. A passion for learning about theatre in all its many forms and a proven interest in the arts.
Recruitment Process Link to apply: https://candidate.nationaltheatre.org.uk/134940RNT
Closing date: Monday 17 May 2021, at 9am
Further queries: email recruitment@nationaltheatre.org.uk
Perks — Complimentary staff tickets for shows and NT Talks & Events, subject to availability and policy — Discounts in the NT’s bars, cafes, restaurants and bookshop and in local businesses (from Wagamamas to local childcare providers & gyms on and around the South Bank) — Interest-free season ticket and cycle-scheme loans — Pension schemes with Legal & General and NEST — 28 days annual leave (including bank holidays), pro rata, increasing with length of service — In-house Training & Development Programme including a free e-learning platform — An Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders scheme and an in-house Wellbeing Programme including monthly talks and events — Buddy scheme for New Starters — On-site staff canteen and bar — Staff networks including the BAME network, LGBTQ+ network and Women’s network — The NT is also a member of Parents and Carers in the Performing Arts (PiPA)
We want our workforce to be representative of all sections of society and welcome applications from everyone.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for our vacancies.
