Summary
Job roles & responsibilities:
- The Technical department is led by the Technical Manager. All staff work across multiple venues to deliver the highest of technical support.
- To ensure the highest standard of technical service, maintenance, and operation.
- To work as part of the technical team to ensure a safe, responsive, accurate and efficient technical service for all events and activities promoted by Lighthouse.
- To promote and maintain high standards of care and attention to all incoming companies in all operations, motivating, supporting, and training staff to achieve this objective.
Desired skills required:
- IT qualifications (ECDL, Microsoft Office certification or similar)
- Knowledge and passion for the Arts
- An artistic eye for lighting
Essential skills required:
- Good general knowledge of formal education (Including English and
Maths GCSE or equivalent passes) - Sound IT proficiency and experience of using IT and HR context.
- Organising own work and managing deadlines.
- Proven experience of managing/ working with budgets.
- Be able to work evenings and weekends.
Desired qualifications:
- Good general level of formal education (including English and Maths GCSE or equivalent passes).
Lighthouse is a nationally significant and regionally important multi-arts venue that is one of the cultural gems of Dorset. At the heart of our community and locally loved. We are a dynamic, vibrant place where people feel inspired, entertained, welcomed, and where artists and performers feel supported and empowered to do their best work. Lighthouse provides an exciting year-round programme of nationally acclaimed, high quality and diverse arts and entertainment from national, international, and regional artists, providing our community with opportunities to engage in a broad range of arts activities and experiences. Primarily a receiving venue, the variety and varying sizes of our spaces enables us to present a broad and significant range of work from all art forms and scale.
We are home to Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and several arts organisations who use our venue to deliver arts activities and cultural training. We support artists to develop their work and our community to have opportunities to engage with and participate in the arts.