Our Job Opportunities

LEAD ‘ARRIVE BUILD CREATE’ PRACTITIONER

Kiln Theatre are looking for a fixed-term, part-time, ‘Arrive Build Create’ Lead Practitioner to join the team for the academic year September 2024-July 2025. Arrive, Build, Create is a drama project, previously known as Minding the Gap, working within Brent schools and colleges, delivering creative sessions and outputs for young people newly arrived in the UK, which has been run by Kiln Theatre for eighteen years.

Arrive, Build, Create is a unique project providing a welcoming, creative and necessary space for the young people we work with to thrive. Kiln Theatre is often their first experience of creating and seeing theatre, supporting them to share their voices and realise their potential, regardless of challenges, barriers and precarity that they may be facing elsewhere in their lives.

The Lead Practitioner will be responsible for the delivery of 30 drama sessions with EAL students aged 14-16 and will direct term/project end performance outputs. We are looking for practitioners whose creative practice is aligned with the mission of Kiln Theatre and the Creative Engagement department to bring unheard voices into the mainstream and create theatre for all.

For more information, please download our  Application Pack. When you’re ready to apply please send a CV, covering letter (no more than one page) and a completed equal opportunities form to imogenfletcher@kilntheatre.com.

Closing Date: Monday 29^th July

Recruitment Workshops: Friday 16^th August (first round), Friday 23^rd August (second round)

If you would like to post your application, please send it to Recruitment, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR.

ASSISTANT ‘ARRIVE BUILD CREATE’ PRACTITIONER

We are looking for fixed-term, part-time, Arrive, Build, Create Assistant Practitioners to join the team for the academic year September 2024-July 2025. Arrive, Build, Create is a drama project, previously known as Minding the Gap, working within Brent schools and colleges, delivering creative sessions and outputs for young people newly arrived in the UK, which has been run by Kiln Theatre for eighteen years.

Arrive, Build, Create is a unique project providing a welcoming, creative and necessary space for the young people we work with to thrive. Kiln Theatre is often their first experience of creating and seeing theatre, supporting them to share their voices and realise their potential, regardless of challenges, barriers and precarity that they may be facing elsewhere in their lives.

The Assistant Practitioners will be responsible for the delivery of 30 drama sessions with EAL students aged 14-18 and will support the delivery of term/project end performance outputs. We are looking for practitioners whose creative practice is aligned with the mission of Kiln Theatre and the Creative Engagement department to bring unheard voices into the mainstream and create theatre for all.

For more information, please download our Application Pack. When you’re ready to apply please send a CV, covering letter (no more than one page) and a completed equal opportunities form to imogenfletcher@kilntheatre.com.

Closing Date: Monday 29^th July

Recruitment Workshops: Friday 16^th August (first round), Friday 23^rd August (second round)

If you would like to post your application, please send it to Recruitment, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR.

Company Stage Manager

The Production Department is responsible for creating, delivering and running world-class theatre at Kiln Theatre, working in collaboration with a wide and varied range of directors, creative teams and co-producing partners.

The Company Stage Manager (the CSM) will work closely with the Head of Production and Producer to play a central part in the day-to-day running of the Productions, providing effective communication between teams and maintaining the delivery of high-quality productions. The CSM will ensure the most effective use of resources; develop and maintain processes for clear communication; and recruit and manage freelance staffing in order to support the realisation of productions at Kiln (and other venues if required). In collaboration with Kiln Production and Producing teams the CSM will ensure the pastoral welfare of Kiln companies and production teams and a welcome and inclusive working culture.

The ideal candidate is a skilled, enthusiastic Company Stage Manager who would like to be part of a building and contribute to the life of Kiln Theatre and the local area.  You will thrive on making a difference by delivering a high-quality programme while supporting us to work in the best possible way with our freelance teams.  You will enjoy creating opportunities for a diverse range of backstage workers to enter and take their next steps in the theatre industry.

For more information, please download our Application Pack. When you’re ready to apply, please fill out an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and return a completed Application Form to Recruitment@KilnTheatre.com using the heading ‘Company Stage Manager’.

Closing Date: Thursday 1^st August 2024, 10am

Interviews: 12^th August (first round), 15^th August (second round)

If you would like to post your application, please send it to Recruitment, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR.

Head of Finance

Kiln Theatre is seeking an experienced finance professional with a successful track record of working in the arts, entertainment and/or charity sector to take on this part-time role within the theatre’s Senior Team. The Head of Finance will lead and manage the Finance team ensuring the smooth finance operation at Kiln Theatre, whilst being a major contributor in the delivery of the theatre’s strategic priorities.

As a key part of the Senior Team, the Head of Finance will connect the day-to-day financial management of Kiln Theatre with the strategic planning needed to support the organisation’s current and future business model, whilst ensuring that effective controls are in place and that all regulatory requirements are met.  The Head of Finance will work closely with Amit (Artistic Director/ CEO) and Iain (Executive Director), supporting them as they lead Kiln Theatre through a period a strategic development as the theatre embraces new forms of income generation, growth and artistic activity. The Head of Finance will contribute to Kiln Theatre’s business planning and play an active role in supporting the resilience of the organisation for the future, ensuring compliance with charitable best practice at all times, whilst helping the company to fulfil its creative and financial ambitions.

The Head of Finance will also work with members of the Board and in particular the Finance & Risk Committee, as well as the external auditors.

For more information, please download our Application Pack. When you’re ready to apply, please fill out an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and return a completed Application Form to Recruitment@KilnTheatre.com using the heading ‘Head of Finance’.

Closing Date: Monday 29^th July, 12pm

Interviews: W/c 5 August (first round), w/c 12 August (second round)

If you would like to post your application, please send it to Recruitment, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR.

CASUAL OPPORTUNITIES, PRODUCTION

Kiln Theatre are looking to refresh our pool of casual Technical Theatre staff to work on the delivery of our productions. We’d love to hear from you if you have experience in Stage Management, Costume, Lighting, Sound, Rigging or Stage.

For more information download the Application Pack. When you’re ready to apply, please fill our an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and email your CV to production@kilntheatre.com using the heading ‘CASUAL OPPORTUNITIES’ followed by your Technical Theatre specialism.
If you can provide your availability over the next six months this would be helpful but is not required at this stage to be considered for any roles.

If you would like to post your application, please send it to Recruitment, Kiln Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 7JR