JUNIOR COSTUME HIRE ASSISTANT

Do you have an interest in costume? Are you confident an excellent communicator? Do you like using your initiative? Do you like learning on the job? Are you looking to gain some experience in an admired and respected Costume team?

The RSC is recruiting a Junior Costume Hire Assistant to join our Costume Hire Department based in The Other Place theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Our extensive collection boasts over 40,000 costumes, which are available to anyone who wants to hire them, from amateur to professional, schools to events, TV to events.

As a Junior Costume Hire Assistant, you will work with the Costume Hire team supporting storage, maintenance and hiring of costumes.

Some of your duties and responsibilities will include:

• To organize and prioritise following direction from the Head of Costume Hire and/or Senior Costume Hire Assistant.
• To assist the Costume Hire Assistants if needed when dealing with clients.
• To assist the RSC Designers and Costume Supervisors with their costume requirements.
• To provide a high level of customer service and care to all external and internal clients.
• To assist the Costume Hire Assistants with the listing of costumes chosen for hire accordingly to set guidelines when required.
• To participate in the organization and maintenance of costumes for RSC and other related productions
• To organise and assist with the movement of costumes.
• To ensure that all costumes are maintained and stored in a tidy and secure condition, including the use of efficient and correctly maintained machinery where necessary.
• To assist and monitor all costume related pest control within Costume Hire.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Some experience of costume within a performance environment
• An interest in Costume & Period
• Competent skills in the following Costume-related disciplines:
• Hand and machine sewing skills.
• Fabric types and associated maintenance.
• Alteration and refurbishment techniques.
• The safe use and maintenance of workshop machinery
• Ability to take direction and work to production related standards and objectives.
• The ability to act effectively as part of a team.
• Strong organisation, time management and administration skills.
• Competent Microsoft Office user.

This is a full time, fixed term position for 6 months, based in Stratford-upon-Avon. You will be working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Access and Inclusion

We are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, and welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences.

We offer support and resources to aid access to the application and interview process, as well as the role itself, should you be successful. To discuss in further detail, please contact jobs@rsc.org.uk - we would be delighted to talk with you.

Application Process

All applications should be made online using the RSC website.

Interviews will take place on 12 & 13 June, with a start date of 10 July 2023.

About the RSC

The RSC strives for excellence, and values integrity, inclusion, ambition, and innovation. We act with respect, show leadership, and build resilient ways of working in all our activities.

We can offer great benefits and aim to create a welcoming, supportive environment which is happy, healthy, and safe. We place great importance upon developing a diverse, highly motivated, and energised workforce to help achieve our priorities. We put our values at the heart of everything we do.

The Royal Shakespeare Company (no. 212481) is a registered charity.