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Education Manager, Guildford Shakespeare Company

  •  South East
  •  Â£30k-40k
  •  Full time
  •  Closes September 30, 2026
  •  Sarah Gobran
  •  sarah@guildford-shakespeare-company.co.uk
  • #Theatre

Description

Job Summary

The Education Manager is a pivotal role in our core team in Guildford. This dynamic role will work alongside the rest of the Creative Learning Department to plan, develop, teach, administrate and evaluate GSC’s in-house participation activity, championing our ethos that theatre is for everyone.

Job Description

The Education Manager is a key position in our core team in Guildford, playing a pivotal part in ensuring we continue to inspire, engage and educate the widest possible community of participants, from young children to adults.

This dynamic role is both administrative and practical: combining teaching and directing with administration and management.

You will work alongside the rest of the Creative Learning Department to plan, execute and evaluate GSC's in-house participation activity, contributing to organisation-wide initiatives of promoting inclusion and diversity. You'll work with freelancers and partner organisations to ensure activity is well planned, inclusive and impactful.

You'll be part of a small, hard-working team, within an ever-growing and developing theatre company, meaning there is great potential for future growth.

Job Requirements

Our ideal candidate will already have experience of working in a creative learning environment, leading participation programmes and creating schemes of work.

They will have excellent organisation and administrative skills, alongside a dynamic teaching manner to ignite the imaginations of participants of all ages.

The Education Manager will be creative and inventive. They'll enjoy the busy nature of running multiple projects at the same time, whilst planning for the future.

Calm and good-humoured under pressure, a quick worker and an initiative-taker willing to ask for advice.

Job Responsibilities

See full Job Description for a full list of responsibilities and person specification.

How to Apply

Please apply in writing with the following information:
• An up-to-date CV highlighting relevant experience, not more than 2 sides of A4.
• Covering letter setting out how your skills and experience meet the person specification.
• Names and contact details of two referees.

We encourage applications from global majority, disabled, neurodiverse and LGBTQIA+ candidates. If you have specific access requirements and would like to submit your application through an alternative means, such as video or audio file, you’re welcome to do so.

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