Job title: Festival Operations Officer
Reporting to: Events & Festival Operations Manager
Responsible for: Temporary Festival Assistants
Based: Head Office is based in London, but they have an agile working policy enabling people to work at another UK location up to 4 days/week. Requests for permanent remote working will be considered and we welcome applications from people based in other parts of the UK.
Travel to Liverpool will be required in the lead-up and during the British Science Festival 2025.
Terms: Full-time (35 hours per week). Requests for secondments will be considered.
Closing date: 3 March
Fixed-term contract terminating on 19 September 2025.
Preferred start date: 26 March 2025.
Salary: £28,600 – £34,424 per annum (pro-rata)
Download the candidate pack for this role as a pdf or view their text-only version of the pack here.
About the role
The British Science Association is looking to recruit a talented and organised Festival Operations Officer to help us plan and deliver the British Science Festival 2025.
The British Science Festival is Europe’s longest standing science festival which connects people with researchers from across the scientific spectrum. It offers an inspiring programme of free events to the public over five days, with talks, workshops and drop-in events which span a diverse range of subjects that encompass science in the broadest sense.
It is hosted by a different university in the United Kingdom each year. The 2025 Festival will take place in Liverpool from 10-14 September 2025 and will be co-hosted by Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the University of Liverpool (UoL).
The Festival Operations Officer will manage logistics-related communications with Festival event organisers, working in close collaboration with all staff and partners involved in the Festival. This role is a great opportunity for anyone looking to build their event and/or project management experience by working on a fast-moving and high-profile project. You should be willing to develop and coordinate key administrative tasks, as well as lead on principal areas within the Festival (such as accommodation arrangements and managing the temporary Festival Assistants).
The role will involve travel to Liverpool in the months leading up to the Festival. The Festival Operations Officer will be required to attend the Festival and remain on-site in Liverpool for 2 weeks, from 3 – 16 September. During the event and in the days immediately before it, longer working hours can be expected (which will be reimbursed under the BSA’s TOIL policy) and you will need to undertake essential manual handling activities (such as lifting and moving items) to ensure that venues and equipment are set up as required for the Festival.
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