Theatre Technician And Production Arts Tutor

Our School

Mulberry School for Girls is an 11-18 comprehensive community school with 1,600 students on roll, close to Whitechapel and Shadwell in the London borough of Tower Hamlets.  A successful and popular school in the local area, Mulberry’s accolades include Leading Edge, Training School, Arts School, International School and Healthy Schools’ status. The school is fully inclusive in all year groups, including the Sixth Form, and in July 2013 Ofsted graded the school ‘Outstanding’.

Our Community

We are committed to supporting young people to overcome the barriers that poverty and social exclusion create, ensuring that all students are able to achieve their full potential. This has inspired us to build up a broad network of partnerships, incubating and invigorating student experience, opportunity, drive and success. 

There should be no barriers to a child’s future and society should, and can, be a level playing field. Aspiring for this to be reality we promise to:  

·        Emphasise high quality subject teaching, reinforced by excellent support for learning and intervention. 

·        Deliver inclusion services that assist personal development. 

·        Provide excellent pastoral care so no student goes unsupported. 

·        Continually develop strong leadership and have high levels of expertise in education

Our partners

We want our students to have access to the same professional connections which young people from more privileged backgrounds can utilise. To make this a reality we have a wide range external partners in higher education, business, industry, the arts and the sciences who contribute extensively and fundamentally to our extra-curricular activities.

• Bank of America Merrill Lynch

• Barts Health NHS Trust

• British Film Institute

• London Stock Exchange Group

• Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd

• National Theatre

• The Prince’s Trust

• Southbank Centre

• WOW Foundation

• University of Cambridge

Bringing Down Barriers to Success

We are proud to inspire our students through a diverse and representative teams and welcome applications from all of the communities we serve. 

If you have the experience and passion to energise Tower Hamlet’s next generation of leaders, creators and innovators, then we want to see how we can support you in that pursuit.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and ethnic minorities. We want the best staff and we know that means a diverse staff.

Encouraging a happy and healthy work environment

We take staff wellbeing seriously at Mulberry Schools Trust, here are just some of the great benefits for all staff.

• Local Government Pension scheme

• Employee assistance programme and support

• Free breakfast 

• Free gym onsite 

• Paid sabbatical opportunities

• Free onsite parking

• Subsidised staff restaurant with outdoor roof terrace

• Annual programme of conferences and Trust wide events with high profile speakers

• Cycle to work scheme

• Annual service award

• Long service awards

About the role

The successful Theatre Technician and Production Arts Tutor will join a team of four including the Director of Arts who has reasonability for the arts across the Trust. The successful candidate will be line managed by the Head of Mulberry Arts who oversees the implementation of arts projects at both Mulberry School for Girls and across the Trust and is also the technical manager of the venues.

The successful candidate will mainly work on the Mulberry Production Arts Academy programme leading on the planning and delivery of Saturday workshops for students enrolled in the academy, and leading on the coordinate and delivery of Production Arts workshops as part of the academy’s outreach programme to KS2 and KS3 students across the Trust and at our partner schools. The candidate will also be required to provide venue and technical support for other projects and events at Mulberry School for Girls and across the Trust.

Mulberry Arts & The Mulberry Production Arts Academy

Mulberry’s pioneering work in the Arts has a hugely positive impact on the whole school community. We have a specialist team dedicated to developing and promoting the students’ skills in the Arts, including through our own theatre and dance companies. All students are involved in arts activities, with every student at KS4 taking at least one Arts subject. In 2009, Mulberry School for Girls became the first state school to be awarded a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for their performance of The Unravelling, the final instalment of a trilogy of plays written by playwright Fin Kennedy.  

The Mulberry Schools Trust owns and manages three professionally equipped performance spaces. A 150 seat theatre in the Mulberry & Bigland Green Centre (adjacent to Mulberry School for Girls) which opened in February 2013, and a 250 seat theatre, modelled on the National Theatre’s Dorfman, and flexible studio space at Mulberry UTC which opened in 2017.

In September 2022 the Trust launched a ground-breaking specialised technical and Production Arts programme that equips young people from across the Trust with the necessary skills and connections to take up their rightful place within the global cultural and creative landscape; enabling more young people form underrepresented group to access rewarding careers in this sector. The Mulberry Production Arts Academy (MPAA), is a partnership initiative with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the National Theatre which offers a unique training opportunity in the field of production and technical arts, and provides a platform for students to develop career aspirations in this industry.

How to Apply

You will need to complete the application form on TES which includes your letter of application in the body of the form explaining why you are the perfect person for this rare and exciting opportunity. Please be aware that we can’t accept any CV’s for this post. 

Please complete your application directly online via TES. If you have any questions about the role or the process, please get in touch with us at hr@mulberryschoolforgirls.org

Closing Date:    9am, Monday 29th January 2024

Start Date:         ASAP

https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/theatre-technician-and-production-arts-tutor-london-1976432

The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will require an enhanced DBS clearance. We are dedicated to equality and valuing diversity