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Senior AV Technician

The British Academy

Location: London, Hybrid
Salary: £38,545
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 8th July 2025
Closes: 23rd July 2025

The British Academy – the UK’s national body for the humanities and social sciences - is seeking a Senior AV technician to join our busy AV Team providing key technical support for events at our prestigious central London venue.

The role

The Senior AV Technician plays a vital role in delivering seamless audio-visual services for a diverse range of events, including hybrid, virtual, and in-person formats. You will work with state-of-the-art AV systems, including AVoIP technologies such as Dante, Q-SYS, and Crestron in our recently launched Lower Ground spaces.

The postholder will be leading the technical delivery of hybrid, virtual, and in-person events, ensuring high-quality outcomes. You will be responsible for setting up, operating and derigging sound, lighting, video, camera and hybrid systems, ensuring all equipment is event ready. You will be confident in troubleshooting technical issues and performing preventative maintenance. We are looking for an experienced AV technician who is familiar with Crestron NVX, Crestron Control, Q-SYS, Black Magic ATEM, Touch Designer, Tiger Touch or Vari-Light lighting control desks and Panasonic PTZ Cameras.

In addition to your technical expertise, you will have excellent communication skills to provide high-quality customer service, and strong organisation skills to coordinate AV technicians and resources to meet event requirements. You will act as a trainer and mentor for AV team members, fostering technical growth and collaboration.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to work with the latest technology across the AV spectrum to deliver high-quality output for the Academy's events.

Terms and conditions

The British Academy is based at 10-11, Carlton House Terrace, St James Park, London, SW1 – a Grade 1 listed building. We offer a competitive benefits package including a 35-hour working week; 34 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays; a subsidised canteen and an excellent occupational pension.

How to apply

We use Applied for our recruitment. Applied aims to overcome unconscious bias in recruiting. Instead of using CVs, candidates are asked to answer questions that test skills needed for the role. The responses are then anonymised and reviewed in a random order by members of the hiring panel.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, in line with our commitment to create a diverse and inclusive working environment, promote equal opportunity, and address under-representation. We will make reasonable adjustments to support disabled job applicants and offer an interview to those meeting the minimum selection criteria.

To apply, and to see the full job description and our workplace values, please follow the link to apply now on the Applied recruitment platform.

Applications must be received no later than 12:00 noon on Wednesday 23 July 2025.

Please contact the HR team at hrteam@thebritishacademy.ac.uk if you have any questions.

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