Christmas Lectures Project Coordinator, The Royal Institution

Christmas Lectures Project Coordinator, The Royal Institution

Deadline: 24 Feb 2025

Organisation: The Royal Institution

Job Title: Christmas Lectures Project Coordinator

Location: London

Salary: c. £28,500 per annum, pro-rata for the term of the contract

Started by Michael Faraday in 1825, and broadcast on national television every year, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES are the UK's flagship science series. The three-part series is filmed in front of a live studio audience in the Ri’s famous lecture theatre and watched by millions on the BBC over the festive period and on BBC iPlayer and the Ri YouTube channel afterwards.

This year marks the Christmas Lectures' 200th anniversary celebrations, and we have an exciting opportunity for a Project Coordinator to work closely with the production team to coordinate the planning and production of the filmed lectures. You will liaise with our Youth Summit partners, livestream hosts, subcontractors, guests, and colleagues. You will develop and collate guidelines for hands-on activities, support the delivery of Youth Summits held at the Ri and at partner venues, and produce and maintain schedules, scripts, kit lists, and other project management documentation.

If you have experience of working on events or activities aimed at public audiences, delivering complex, high-impact projects successfully, on time and on budget, we would love to hear from you. You will need excellent administrative and organisational skills, good communication skills, with an ability to adapt to different audiences. Experience of working in either TV/event production or with schools, families, and young people would be desirable.

More information on the role can be found here.