Facilities, Repairs & Storage

• Maintains studios and storage spaces in good working order, carrying out practical repairs and improvements and liaising with Facilities Management on the upkeep of venues.
• Completes on-site repairs and maintenance as required; replaces and repairs studio equipment through general carpentry and repairs work.
• Assists in building helpful new additions to the studio, such as storage racks and trolleys.
• Works with the Technician Manager to ensure the School maintains use of allocated storage; keeps storage spaces tidy and accessible and helps build new storage areas as needed.
• Liaises with the Technician Manager and Facilities Management on the proper upkeep of studios, reporting problems to senior management.

Event & Exhibition Delivery

• Supports the planning and delivery of School exhibitions and events, from framing and hanging through to packaging, promotion, and offsite support.
• Frames student work using the School's stock frames as needed for exhibitions and assists the Technician Manager in maintaining and storing the School's frames.
• Assists the Technician Manager in hanging exhibitions in collaboration with programme leaders, curators, and onsite teams, and ensures walls are returned to their original clean state afterwards.
• Assists in organizing appropriate art packaging and delivery of works.
• Assists School staff on an ad hoc basis with in-house events and parties; helps promote the School and represent it when possible, including delivering promotional material.
• Provides technical assistance at offsite bespoke courses when needed.

Health, Safety & Compliance

• Applies the School's Health & Safety policies and procedures consistently, keeping studios, equipment, and records compliant and up to date.
• Ensures studios are set up and run in line with the School's H&S policies and guidelines; assists the Education teams in ensuring students and tutors are aware of studio risk assessments, and helps enforce studio rules.
• Ensures wires are covered to avoid trip hazards, with no wire 'daisy chaining' or model heaters plugged into extension cables; ensures correct, up-to-date signage is in place.
• Has a moderate understanding of ladder training, COSHH, and proper manual handling.
• Monitors First Aid boxes, informing the Facilities, Health, and Safety Manager of required refills.

Safeguarding & Compliance

• Applies the School's child protection and health & safety policies consistently to help maintain a safe environment for young people.
• Adheres to and promotes the School's child protection and health and safety policies.
• Supports out-of-house activity, ensuring meeting points are known and late/lost students are safely taken to class.
• Supports the team in ensuring tutors comply with School policies.

Problem Solving & Flexibility

• Resolves routine, familiar problems independently, adapts to a changing Saturday schedule, and escalates issues appropriately.
• Provides short cover for colleagues' breaks or occasional sickness absence.
• Responds flexibly to on-the-day changes and proactively supports the team as required.

Person Specification:

• Experience working with children (ideally in an education-related role)
• Clear, friendly verbal and written communication skills, with a helpful, 'can do' disposition
• Strong organizational skills and excellent time management; able to prioritize a varied workload against a fixed timetable
• Experience of, and confidence applying, safeguarding protocols when working with young people and children
• Confidence with video-conferencing platforms (e.g. Zoom)
• Good numeracy and literacy
• Practically able to set up and move studio equipment (e.g. easels, furniture)
• Reliable team player, comfortable working alongside colleagues on-site or at other venues
• Understanding of the needs of art schools/art students