Schools coordinator

Closing date for applications: 6 October 2025 at 12.00pm

Salary: £28,000 (pro rata 3 days per week)

Contract: This post is offered on a 6-month fixed-term, part time contract

Help support and inspire young people through theatre! Play a key role in delivering impactful school programmes that spark creativity and connect students to drama.

The schools coordinator is a vital part of the Almeida’s participation team, supporting the delivery of our Every Child and wider schools programmes. This role helps to build and maintain strong relationships with schools, artists, and facilitators, ensuring that projects are well-organised, accessible, and impactful. The role provides essential administrative and assistant producing support, from coordinating workshops and resources to liaising with schools and gathering evaluation data.

Almeida Every Child is a new strand of our schools programme, launching in the 2025/26 academic year. Through drama and theatre-making workshops, we aim to engage every Year 5, 7, 8 and 9 student in Islington. Working in close collaboration with both primary and secondary schools across the borough, the project will reach over 6,000 students.


Responsibilities

Every Child schools programme

• Work with the schools producer to co-ordinate meetings and workshops as part of the Every Child schools programme
• Support lead facilitators in delivery of sessions in the room as an assistant facilitator
• Delivering sessions as a lead facilitator, both programmed in advance but also as last minute cover
• Coordinating reaching out to schools and making first contact to recruit for the programme
• Recruit for and support the Every Child programme during the year, liaising with the schools producer and wider participation team to organise and support the logistics and the administration of the programme
• Represent the Almeida through attending in-school sessions where appropriate
• Work with the schools producer by taking on producing tasks and organising room bookings, communication with schools and facilitators.
• Ordering and arranging of workshop resources, visiting schools in-person to drop off resources.
• Draft risk assessments for all activity on the Every Child programme.
• Co-ordinating scheduling of schools workshops and facilitator availability, working on assigning facilitators and assistants to schools, and dealing with last minute clashes and dropouts
• Regularly attend meetings and help on projects at allstages, from planning to evaluation
• Lead on all elements of generating statistics for reporting, including gathering info, case studies, data and gathering information from other members of the team
• Work with the schools producer to ensure data and equal opportunities information for all projects is current and up to date.

Wider schools programme

• Provide admin support for the wider schools programme, including any other administration that the team requires
• Coordinate the Free School Ticket scheme, liaising with schools and Almeida box office
• In the room assisting on the wider projects in the schools programme, acting as an assistant director on various programmes in schools and young artist projects where needed
• Work with the schools producer and participation coordinator to process all invoices, log them into our monitoring documents and update budgets where appropriate
• Liaise with schools to promote our wider schools programme, booking schools in for various programmes
• Coordinating a schools database, gathering information on each of our local schools and keeping up to date

Knowledge, skills and experience

• An interest in participation work, specifically for schools work within participation in theatre
• Project coordination or experience of producing or supporting participation projects
• Some experience of facilitation or supporting practical activity/rehearsals with young people aged 7-14
• High standard of numeracy, literacy, and IT skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to learn and become proficient in new systems and procedures
• Ability to manage a number of differing projects and prioritise workload
• Demonstrable interest in the Almeida Theatre and its work

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.