Music Technician - 28.8 hours a week (4 days) - Part Time - Creative and Enterprise Directorate - Hertford Regional College - Broxbourne Campus - Permanent
About the role
As the Music Technician your role is to be responsible for the safe management of the music accommodation, equipment and students. You will also be responsible for sound engineering at student concerts and recordings.
You will be required to provide support to teaching staff and learners within the area of Music, Media and Performing Arts. This will include instructing students in the correct and best use of the music recording equipment, ensuring health and safety compliance, advising on recording and production techniques using your knowledge and experience of the equipment and software.

You will be required to make simple repairs to equipment and maintain the music equipment to meet the College's Health & Safety requirements and assist staff in the preparation of the music studio and ensure that appropriate materials are ordered and maintained correctly in conjunction with the Senior Technician.

Part of the role will be to attend and engineer live events and assist with student recruitment events such as Open Days and Evenings so a degree of flexibility will be required.

Who we are looking for

We are seeking an individual with:

• Music industry knowledge coupled with motivation and passion for the subject
• Self-motivation and desire to help students achieve their potential
• Ability to demonstrate recording techniques, use of DAW software and a live sound mixing console
• Ability to set up and maintain a music recording studio environment
• Awareness and willingness to follow exemplary Health and Safety practice

About the College
We are a vibrant, dynamic further education college with over 6,000 students across two campuses, with ambitious growth and development targets. Our passion for supporting our community and inspiring our students is manifested in our focused strategies, and we are working hard to make these visions a reality. You will be working in state of the art buildings on our campuses.
Hertford Regional College can offer you free parking, a defined benefit Pension scheme, on site refectory with subsidised coffee outlet, a gym, a library and access to state of the art facilities for staff and learners. As a member of our team you and everybody living at your home address will have access to an Employee Assistance Programme, promoting wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle.
Are you passionate about music and music technology? Would you be able to inspire our young learners? If so, apply now!
To find out more about HRC, please visit our website: www.hrc.ac.uk

Please note
All Candidates will receive either a notification to attend an Interview or an email to advise that they have been unsuccessful. This will be sent to the email address supplied upon application.
Please ensure that you outline in the Supporting Statement how your Experience, Skills and Qualifications meet those outlined in the Person Specification, only candidates that fully outline the above will be selected for interview.
We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of any vacancies when we have received a suitable number of applications from which to make a shortlist.

All positions are subject to a DBS (formerly CRB) check and your start date will be dependent upon receipt of satisfactory DBS clearance.
Hours: 28.8 hours per week (4 days a week), 52 weeks per year
Salary: S2 £17,000 - £17,750 FTE (Actual Salary £13,600 - £14,200) per annum
Annual Leave: 25 days per annum plus bank and public holidays (pro rata).
Closing Date: Monday 19 August 2019 @12 Noon
Interview Date: Thursday 29 August 2019
If you wish to contact us, please email: [email protected]

Closing Date/Time
Monday 19 August 2019 @ 12 noon