Education Manager

Theatre Company Overview

Founded in 2006, Guildford Shakespeare Company is an award-winning theatre company creating exceptional theatre in extraordinary places. Most recently our shows have been on tour in the UK, London and New York.

The Creative Learning Department creates and delivers over 29,000 engagement opportunities every year. Much of this work is aimed at improving engagement for socially excluded groups and the least advantaged.

GSC is based in Guildford, 35 miles from Central London

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, execute and evaluate GSC’s in-house participation activity, championing our ethos that theatre is for everyone.

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.

This dynamic role will work alongside the rest of the Creative Learning Department to plan, execute and evaluate GSC’s in-house participation activity. They will also contribute 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.

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

The Education Manager will work alongside the other members of the Creative Learning Department to develop the existing portfolio of clubs and classes, whilst seeking new opportunities to grow this offering.

They will manage, monitor and plan all of GSC’s subscription-based participation activities, whilst also creating the content to be delivered. They will facilitate these clubs and classes alongside other freelance facilitators.

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.

This role will also contribute to organisation-wide initiatives including promoting an inclusive culture, audience development and supporting other programmes in the Creative Learning Department if required.

This role needs an ambitious all-rounder. Our ideal candidate will already have experience of working in a creative learning environment, leading participation programmes and creating schemes of work. You will enjoy a supportive, non-corporate working environment; joining a small, hard-working team that thrives on the difference theatre engagement can make to a community.