AV Technician
Accountable to: AV Manager
Location: 21 Albemarle Street, London and other locations as needed
Contract type: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours) flexible hours worked on a rota including evenings and weekends
Salary: £33,750 to £36,000 per annum
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.
We talk, and listen, to the public. We help scientists talk, and listen, to the public. We develop critical thinking and a spirit of exploration in young people through our educational work.
Our Grade I listed building in Mayfair is also a busy and vibrant events venue, offering the perfect location for private and corporate events. Our historic Georgian rooms with fine portraits and original features and contemporary spaces are all equipped with a wide variety of AV technology to suit the clients’ needs.
About the Role
This role delivers a high quality, proactive and timely in-house AV service to internal and external customers, ensuring excellent customer service and client experience of the Ri.
As the successful applicant, you will work primarily with the Venue Hire, Facilities & Programmes team as well as other internal stakeholders to deliver events and ensure customers receive a proactive and consistent service.
You will also advise clients about AV needs for conferences and events, establishing and ensuring the delivery meets customer expectations.
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Experience of running live events and conferences, including running sound desks, lighting, and video.
- Hands on knowledge of the procedures used in the installation, modification, maintenance and repair of IT/AV hardware and software.
- Excellent communication skills and a strong understanding of good customer service.
A working knowledge of IT systems including computer configuration/settings, Salesforce, web-streaming technologies, video and sound editing programs would be ideal.
The role requires irregular hours, to be worked flexibly across the week, including early mornings, evening and weekend working to fit in with the events run at the Ri.
To find out more about our venue visit https://venue.rigb.org/
Interested?
Please review the full job description and person specification below, and to apply send your CV and supporting statement of no more than 500 words explaining why you would like to apply for the role and how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification to recruitment@ri.ac.uk no later than 9.00am on Monday 23 June 2025.
We ask applicants to complete and return the recruitment monitoring form along with their application. The Ri is committed to equality of opportunity at all stages of the recruitment process. The information supplied in this form will be treated in strict confidence and will only be seen by Human Resources. It will not form part of the selection process. You may choose not to disclose some, or all the information requested in the form, and this will not affect your application in any way.
You may choose not to disclose some or all of the information requested in the form, and this will not affect your application in any way.