The UK’s leading Egyptological organisation, the Egypt Exploration Society, is looking for an enthusiastic and well-organised Education & Public Engagement Manager to join our team.
You will be an integral member of the London office staff, planning and delivering the Society’s programme of events, managing membership and external communications (including production of electronic and print newsletters), working with the Director on fundraising activities, and running the archive.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an organisation with a rich history which has recently undergone a series of changes to prepare it for the challenges ahead. The successful candidate will be working within a friendly, passionate and energetic small team; they therefore must be a team player. They will enjoy a busy office environment and a varied and challenging working day, and will, ideally, have experience of event management, production of compelling content for print and electronic media, and archive / museum work. A postgraduate degree in Egyptology or archaeology or a relevant field is highly desirable.
If you consider yourself to be an organised and enthusiastic team player with the ability to deal with multiple tasks then please apply directly.
Full details including a job description and person specification are available here.
Terms of Employment
This is a full‐time post, based in the Society’s London Office. The successful applicant will be responsible to the Director and will be appointed on a one-year, fixed-term contract basis with a six‐month probationary period.
Start date: 11 November 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter
Salary: c. £22,500 pa, payable by monthly instalments.
Notice period: One calendar month
Application Process
An application form is available for download from Google Drive here* and must be returned by e‐mail to application@ees.ac.uk. Do not include a covering letter or a CV as only the form will be considered by the selection panel. If you would like to discuss the post further on an informal basis, please contact the Director, Dr Chris Naunton: chris.naunton@ees.ac.uk.
Applicants are also asked to complete this form* to enable us to monitor our recruitment process in relation to the equal opportunities policy.
The closing date for applications is 5pm (GMT) on Monday 30 September 2013. First interviews for short‐listed candidates will be held at the Society’s London Offices during week commencing 7 October 2013. Candidates will also be required to take a short written exercise prior to the interviews.
* You should not be required to log-in to Google and we recommend that on opening the page you click 'file' at top left and then 'download' the form to your computer for editing. We are aware that to download the forms Google log-in details are required when using some versions of Mozilla Firefox or Safari for Mac OS. If you do not have a Google account please either use a different browser or contact Dr Chris Naunton:chris.naunton@ees.ac.uk