Christmas Lectures Project Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Programmes team in our 200th anniversary year to help deliver the annual CHRISTMAS LECTURES programme. This comprises of a series of events, activities and resources aimed at 11 to 17-year-olds culminating in a series of lectures filmed in partnership with the BBC. 

Audiences in the Theatre at the Royal Institution

Job Title:             Christmas Lectures Project Coordinator

Location:            21 Albemarle Street with some home/remote working

Contract type:   Part-time 0.8 FTE (28 hours/week) - Fixed term -1 April 2025 to 31 January 2026.

                             Requests for flexible or full-time patterns will be considered

Salary:                c. £28,500k per annum, pro-rata for the term of the contract

Started by Michael Faraday in 1825, and broadcast on national television every year, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES  are the UK's flagship science series. The three-part series is filmed in front of a live studio audience in the Ri’s famous lecture theatre and watched by millions on the BBC over the festive period and on BBC iPlayer and the Ri YouTube channel afterwards.

This year is the Christmas Lectures' 200th anniversary celebrations and we have an exciting opportunity for a Project Coordinator to work closely with the production team to coordinate the planning and production of the filmed lectures. You will liaise with our Youth Summit partners, livestream hosts, subcontractors, guests and colleagues. You will develop and collate guidelines for hands-on activities, support the delivery of Youth Summits held at the Ri and at partner venues, and produce and maintain schedules, scripts, kit lists and other project management documentation. 

If you have experience of working on events or activities aimed at public audiences, delivering complex, high-impact projects successfully, on-time and on-budget, we would love to hear from you. You will need excellent administrative and organisational skills, good communication skills, with an ability to adapt to difference audiences. Experience of working in either TV/ event production or with schools, families and young people would be desirable.

Interested?

Please review the full job description and person specification, and send your CV and a supporting statement (no more than 500 words) explaining why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience meet the criteria set out in the person specification to recruitment@ri.ac.uk by 9.00am on Monday 24 February 2025. Please also include a copy of the recruitment monitoring form with your application.

Interviews are planned for w/c 3 March although we may interview sooner

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About the Royal Institution

The purpose of the Royal Institution is to connect as many people as possible with science. We've been doing it for well over 200 years and have an international reach, working with world-leading scientists, from Hannah Fry to Carlo Rovelli.

The Ri has a clear vision that ‘Science is for Everyone’ and it is our belief that everyone should have equitable access to science. Through our packed event programme available in person or online, our UK schools outreach and social impact initiatives, and our global digital reach including over 1.5m YouTube subscribers we achieve our mission by connecting people with scientists to explore science together.

In our historic Grade I listed Mayfair building, discoveries were made that literally changed the world. Today it acts as base for the Ri team and tenants as well as a busy and vibrant event space for private and corporate events. 

 

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