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Dear Colleagues,
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Research department, for a Part-time Network Facilitator. Thanks to an International Network Grant from the Leverhulme Trust for the project ‘Screen adaptations of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra: Routes of cultural transfer’, the School is in a position to offer this post to an enthusiastic individual with an interest in cinema, media, film music and intercultural exchange. The successful applicant will additionally have excellent administrative skills and (ideally) knowledge of Spanish and (Brazilian) Portuguese.
Duration of post: Three-year fixed-term contract at 0.5 FTE
Salary range: Salary including Inner London Weighting: £25,000 in year 1 rising to £27,000 in year 3 (pro rata for 0.5 FTE £12,500 rising to £13,500)
The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 26 August 2015. For further information and for details on how to apply, please see the attached document.
For an informal discussion about the position, please contact Dr Cormac Newark, Head of Research on [log in to unmask]
Please do circulate the below information to anyone who may find this of interest
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Part-time Network Facilitator
Guildhall School of Music and Drama: Research Department
Three-year fixed-term contract at 0.5 FTE
Salary including Inner London Weighting: £25,000 in year 1 rising to £27,000 in year 3 (pro rata for 0.5 FTE £12,500 rising to £13,500)
Thanks to an International Network Grant from the Leverhulme Trust for the project ‘Screen adaptations of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra: Routes of cultural transfer’, Guildhall School of Music & Drama is in a position to be able to offer this position to an enthusiastic individual with an interest in cinema, media, film music and intercultural exchange who has excellent administrative skills and (ideally) knowledge of Spanish and (Brazilian) Portuguese.
About the project
Gaston Leroux’s Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (1909-10) is a unique record of the most important social and artistic institution in late-nineteenth-century Parisian culture, the Paris Opéra. Notwithstanding this historical-geographical specificity, it has been the object of repeated reinterpretation for more than a century, all over the world. This global interdisciplinary project maps the mechanisms and extraordinary extent of that cultural transfer through its most consistent expression, the 50+ screen adaptations made between 1916 and the present day.
About the position
The wide geographical scope of the project, as well as its six programmed events (meetings, workshops, conferences and similar, some on quite a large scale), require a Facilitator to ensure the logistical planning and smooth running of the network’s activities. A range of administrative skills and the ability to collaborate productively with other administrative staff will be essential, and the ability to liaise efficiently with collaborators in Latin America (mainly Mexico, Argentina and Brazil) will be an advantage.
The varied duties of the Facilitator will also include maintaining the network website, the planned blog and/or social media accounts and the private online project management system (Basecamp.com or similar), uploading content provided by the project partners, and monitoring various feeds, social media output and similar from related projects/scholarly societies/research groups. This work will be crucial to the network’s goal of disseminating news of the project as widely as possible, and soliciting engagement and participation from an even broader academic and non-academic community.
There will be the opportunity for the successful candidate to negotiate flexible working patterns, including working from home. Otherwise the post is based in the Research Office at Milton Court, the School’s magnificent new building in the City of London.
About the person
You will be educated to degree level, probably in Film, Music, Languages, Media, Cultural Studies or similar; you could be undertaking a higher degree part-time, or be working part-time in an education or arts environment, or freelance. You will have some project-management and administrative skills, and you will be IT literate, familiar with social media and maintaining blogs/websites. You will be able to maintain a simple budget spreadsheet, with administrative support. You will have the right to work in the UK, and be able to get to the School easily to use office facilities or for meetings.
About the process
Please send a covering letter (one page of A4) explaining your interest in the project, a CV detailing your administrative, IT and linguistic skills, and the names of two referees who can confirm those skills to [log in to unmask] The deadline for receipt of this material is Wednesday, 26 August 2015. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview (at the Guildhall School or via Skype) and the start-date will be as soon as possible thereafter.
For more information, please contact Dr Cormac Newark
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 020 7382 2306
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