Job Description
Sitting within the Public Programmes team, the Assistant Producer: Public Programmes plays a key role in the development and delivery of the wide-ranging public events programme at our busy Harbourside venue.
Working alongside the department lead and our other Assistant Producers, this role is expected to lead on content creation for our in-venue programme of events, as well as support the delivery of daily activities, workshops and participatory experiences.
Primarily focussed on engaging non-school audiences, you will be helping to create experiences that specifically appeal to families, adults, the under 5’s, priority audience groups and everyone in-between. You will be expected to help bring together ideas and research from across the arts and sciences and collaborate with professional and community partners to create experiences that are playful, accessible and ultimately cultivate curiosity.
Required skills
Essential:
- Experience of developing and delivering a diverse range of events, activities, and workshops for the public across a range of disciplines
- Experience of working collaboratively with external partners, creatives and/or academics
- Experience of working with audiences not well represented in the science centre sector
- Confident facilitator and communication
- Experience of/competency in all aspects of project co-ordination
- Highly organised with excellent time management skills, an eye for detail and the ability to prioritise
- Able to work independently under own initiative and under supervision
- Flexible and adaptable team player with good interpersonal skill
- A Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM) based degree or experience of working with STEM ideas and concepts
Desirable:
- Experience of designing an events programme for a large public venue, preferably in a science communication context
- Experience in training and coordinating delivery staff and supporting volunteers
- Demonstrable experience of translating complex topics and concepts to make them accessible and engaging to a non-specialist audience
- Experience in the design and delivery of live science demos, including the handling and management of restricted chemicals
Benefits
Wellbeing & support
- Flexible working
- Hybrid working (if suitable and stated for role)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free yearly flu jabs and eye tests
- Paid sick leave for physical and mental health
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Confidential advice & counselling through the Employee Support Programme
Leave
- 25 days in addition to/including bank holidays (all pro-rata)
- A day of extra holiday for every 5 years’ service
- An amount of paid leave for emergency dependent care, domestic emergency leave and compassionate leave
New Parent Policy
We are proud to be a family friendly organisation, which is why we work to develop our people practices in line with that value. We have recently introduced a non-gendered approach to Maternity and Paternity, re-branded as our “New Parent Policy”. There are eligibility criteria and terms and conditions, but the key take away is that anyone who is due to become a new parent, regardless of their gender, can take 1 year off work, and we’ll pay your full salary for the first five months.
Facilities & discounts
- Free tickets to the venue for you and up to four guests, plus 12 additional entry tickets per calendar year to give away
- 15% off in the We The Curious café
- 20% off in our shop
- Range of discounts with local businesses and free entry to other local attractions
- Social events
- Secure cycle storage
Pension
We offer a pension scheme with 5% company contributions
Death in service benefits
Four times your annual salary