Digital, Production & Venue Network & Systems Manager

Digital, Production & Venue Support Network & Systems Manager

Posting

Start Date:

15/09/2026

Posting End Date: 05/10/2026

Department:
Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Office

Location:

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Level of DBS required for this role:
None required

Level of vetting required?:
No security vetting is required

Is this a politically restricted post?:
No

Does this post require a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check?:
No

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required have also been included. Workplace role categories describe our approach to workplace attendance

Salary: £45,650 - £50,860 per annum (including Inner London Weighting)

Contractual

Hours:

35, Full-time

Basis:
Permanent

Workplace category:
Hybrid

Attachments:
Job Information Pack

Guildhall School is a vibrant, international community of musicians, actors and production artists in the heart of the City of London. Ranked as number one in Arts, Drama & Music by the Complete University Guide 2025, and in the top four in the world for Music and Performing Arts by the QS World University Rankings 2025, we deliver world‑class professional training in partnership with distinguished artists, companies and ensembles.

A global leader in creative and professional practice, we promote innovation, experiment and research, and are also one of the UK's leading providers of lifelong learning in the performing arts, offering inspiring training for children, young people, adult learners, and creative and business professionals.

Guildhall School of Music & Drama is looking for an experienced, curious and ambitious Network & Systems Manager to join our Digital, Production & Venue Support (DPVS) team. This is a rare opportunity to take responsibility for an extraordinary technical environment at the heart of one of the world's leading conservatoires. Guildhall's students are exceptional young musicians, actors, production artists and makers, and our job within DPVS is to give them the facilities, systems and technical support that allow them to do their best work.

Behind that work sits a substantial and increasingly sophisticated digital infrastructure. Across more than 60 performance venues, studios, teaching spaces and classrooms, DPVS operates hundreds of interconnected audio, video, recording and broadcast devices, alongside an equipment inventory worth more than £2 million. We are looking for someone to help us lead, maintain and develop that environment.

As DPVS Network & Systems Manager, you will take day-to-day operational responsibility for the School's specialist recording, broadcast and audio‑visual systems and networks. That includes a large low‑latency audio network, Dante Domain Manager, NDI video distribution, networked recording systems, specialist software, and the increasingly complex infrastructure that connects our studios, concert halls, theatres, teaching rooms and production spaces.

You will be somebody who enjoys getting beneath the surface of a system: diagnosing problems properly, understanding why something behaves the way it does, documenting it, improving it and making it more resilient. Just as importantly, this is not an IT role sitting at a distance from the work. You will be part of a busy, vibrant technical department supporting concerts, theatre productions, recording sessions, broadcasts, teaching, research and student‑led work every day.

You might spend one morning investigating multicast behaviour or a Dante clocking issue and the afternoon working with engineers, academics or students to develop a completely new production workflow. You will work closely with our Recording & AV engineers, venue teams, academic departments and…