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02 Jun 25 | Job & Opportunities
Site/Production Manager
We are seeking an experienced Site/Production Manager to collaborate closely with the Associate Co-creation Producer (from the University of Oxford’s Cultural Programme), Creative Lead, and Event Coordinator, overseeing the safe and efficient delivery of the festival site.
The successful candidate will:
- Oversee the build and de-rig of the site, supervising infrastructure setup, contractor activity, and technical requirements.
- Take on a leadership role when the Event Manager is unavailable, ensuring continuity of oversight across the event.
- Ensure that temporary structures, staging, power supplies, and high-risk areas are installed and managed according to safety specifications and risk assessments.
- Act as key liaison for technical and production-related matters, communicating with contractors and crew and ensuring all logistics are running to schedule.
- Maintain radio contact throughout the day and be part of the event’s live command structure.
- Oversee delivery of protocols on the day including DBS, lost child, and vulnerable adult procedures.
Fee: £200 per day over 7 days (£1,400 total)
Work to be scheduled between mid-June and early July, with availability required for the festival day on Saturday 5 July 2025.
We strongly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience of or connection to the Blackbird Leys community.
To Apply:
To submit an Expression of Interest, please send a CV and short cover note (including your availability and confirmation of day rate) to:📧 nassykonan@humanities.ox.ac.uk.
Please include “Site/Production Manager EOI – Leys Festival” in the subject line.
Deadline: Monday 9 June 2025
About the Cultural Programme, Humanities Division, University of Oxford
The Cultural Programme brings together university, local and global cultural communities in a physical and digital arts centre, powered by the University of Oxford’s research. We promote broad engagement with the riches of the humanities by working with outstanding artists, writers and thinkers from around the world to create and present world-class arts and culture.
From 2026, the Cultural Programme will be located within the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities – a home for seven humanities faculties and the University’s first purpose-built cultural venue, featuring a concert hall, theatres, film and digital spaces, and public exhibition areas. We continue to deliver an ambitious offsite programme in the lead-up.
02 Jun 25