Specialist Technician AV

The opportunity

Are you an experienced Audio Visual (AV) Technician with a passion for delivering exceptional AV experiences? Do you want to utilise your technical expertise within a creative, forward-thinking environment? We are looking for a Specialist Technician AV to join us at London College of Fashion’s new State-of-the-art East Bank campus.

As a key member of our technical team, you will draw on your technical proficiency and expertise to provide excellent AV experiences across over >200 teaching, event, exhibition spaces and hybrid modes. Our campus features an award winning,  fully converged AV over IP design centred on flexibility and scalability. We also boast a flagship lecture theatre with an 11-metre DV LED display and a Sony Verona XR/Virtual Production research volume.

Your role will be crucial to ensuring the smooth operation of AV systems throughout the campus, supporting the successful delivery of learning and teaching activity, showcasing and live events. You will help lead and motivate the AV team, acting as a point of reference and escalation, while fostering knowledge-sharing across both technical and academic communities.

Working closely with stakeholders, you will also support the management of AV development projects, ensuring that our spaces  continue to meet the needs of our diverse and creative user base.

About you

You will be a certified, confident and experienced user of AV systems and protocols such as QSC Q-Sys, Audinate Dante , NDI based transport and endpoints. You will be highly proficient in delivering live streaming and hybrid events across platforms and software such as Microsoft Teams, Blackboard, YouTube, OBS and Vmix.

A good working knowledge of network topologies, principles, and protocols is essential, along with experience of installing and developing lecture capture systems such as Panopto or Echo360.

You will also demonstrate excellent communication, organisational and teamwork skills, along with experience of leading AV projects and delivering audio for live events such as live music performances and panel discussions.

What we offer

To recognise the hard work of our staff and their contributions, we provide a wide range of benefits – please check our careers site/Canvas for further information as conditions and exclusions apply:

▪ 31 days of annual leave and 2 days off to volunteer plus bank holidays
▪ Flexible and Dynamic working options available from the first day
▪ Discounted Medical Insurance including Digital GP service, therapies, in-patient and day-case treatment
▪ Free counselling and advice via our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
▪ Sector-leading Equal Parental Leave policy (6 months full pay for both parents) 
▪ Defined-benefit LGPS pension scheme
▪ In-house training and development including apprenticeships and free places on creative courses
▪ Interest free loans on travel and tech, discounts on gym memberships, nursery fees, eye care and much more
▪ Various opportunities to attend student shows and exhibitions

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University, we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That's why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.