Digital, Production & Venue Support Network & Systems Manager

Salary: £45,650 - £50,860 per annum (including Inner London Weighting)

Contractual Hours: 35, Full-time

Basis: Permanent

Workplace category: Hybrid

Guildhall School is a vibrant, international community of musicians, actors and production artists in the heart of the City of London. Ranked as number one in Arts, Drama & Music by the Complete University Guide 2025, and in the top four in the world for Music and Performing Arts by the QS World University Rankings 2025, we deliver world-class professional training in partnership with distinguished artists, companies and ensembles.

Guildhall School of Music & Drama is looking for an experienced, curious and ambitious Network & Systems Manager to join our Digital, Production & Venue Support (DPVS) team. This is a rare opportunity to take responsibility for an extraordinary technical environment at the heart of one of the world’s leading conservatoires. Guildhall’s students are exceptional young musicians, actors, production artists and makers, and our job within DPVS is to give them the facilities, systems and technical support that allow them to do their best work.

The role As DPVS Network & Systems Manager, you will take day-to-day operational responsibility for the School’s specialist recording, broadcast and audio-visual systems and networks. That includes a large low-latency audio network, Dante Domain Manager, NDI video distribution, networked recording systems, specialist software, and the increasingly complex infrastructure that connects our studios, concert halls, theatres, teaching rooms and production spaces.

You will be somebody who enjoys getting beneath the surface of a system: diagnosing problems properly, understanding why something behaves the way it does, documenting it, improving it and making it more resilient. Just as importantly, this is not an IT role sitting at a distance from the work. You will be part of a busy, vibrant technical department supporting concerts, theatre productions, recording sessions, broadcasts, teaching, research and student-led work every day.

Who we are looking for We are deliberately interested in people from a wide range of technical backgrounds. Perhaps you are currently a systems engineer in broadcast or live production and would like to bring that experience into a role with greater continuity, where you can build, refine and take long‑term ownership of the systems you work with. Perhaps you have spent years touring and are looking for a little more routine without losing the technical complexity, live performance environment and sense of occasion that attracted you to the industry in the first place.

You might be a broadcast systems engineer, studio technical manager, media‑network specialist, AV systems engineer, or someone working in higher education who wants to operate at a much greater technical scale. We are less interested in where you learned your skills than in what you can do with them. You will need substantial experience of professional audio, video or broadcast systems and a strong understanding of IP networking in a media environment. Experience with technologies such as Dante, NDI, and network administration will be particularly valuable, as will an understanding of recording studios, production workflows and integrated AV systems.

The environment DPVS is a large multidisciplinary department bringing together recording, broadcast, AV, sound, lighting, stage, technical production and venue operations. The scale and variety of the work is unusual. Our teams support thousands of recordings and a huge programme of performances and projects every year, ranging from student sessions and teaching activity through to major public concerts, theatre productions, broadcasts and collaborations with internationally recognised artists and organisations.

Why Guildhall? You will be working alongside an experienced and enthusiastic technical team, but the ultimate beneficiaries of your work are some extraordinarily talented students at the beginning of their professional careers. A reliable network might mean a student can hear their orchestral recording immediately after a session. A better video workflow might transform how a production is taught or captured. A well‑designed system might become the infrastructure behind thousands of performances over the next decade.

This is a full‑time role working 35 hours per week. Some evening and weekend work is required in support of the School’s performance programme, with overtime arrangements applicable. If you are excited by complex systems, brilliant performances, ambitious students and the idea of helping shape the technical infrastructure of a world‑leading performing arts institution, we would love to hear from you.

Guildhall School welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. We are particularly keen to encourage interest from people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, Black, Asian, and other global majority backgrounds who are currently under‑represented at Guildhall School. In recognising the positive value of diversity, we want to better reflect and understand the communities we exist to serve.

The Guildhall School is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk and expects all employees, workers, and volunteers to share this commitment.