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We are currently recruiting for 2 roles:
Technical Manager
Chair of Shaper/Caper
Find out more about these roles below.
Technical Manager
We’re an award-winning dance company creating playful, heartfelt, and socially engaged work across performance, participation, and digital platforms.
Purpose of the Role:
The Technical Manager is a newly created role at Shaper/Caper, designed to support the delivery and development of the company’s touring and participatory activity. The role is primarily focused on the day-to-day technical delivery of 'Well Good', Shaper/Caper’s theatre-in-schools touring programme that has ran for 10 years and reached over 70k children! The role also supports the company’s wider programme of performances, participatory projects, and touring work.
The Technical Manager is responsible for planning, delivering, and maintaining all technical elements of the company’s work and provides on-tour technical operation, including sound, lighting, and video.
Overview of responsibilities and duties:
Plan and undertake the technical delivery of performances.
Lead get-ins, get-outs, and technical rehearsals, adapting setups for different performance spaces.
Drive our van, operate lighting, video, and sound functions on tour and manage logistics for transporting and maintaining tech equipment and sets.
Maintaining sets for Well Good and fixing issues as they arise.
Provide technical support for rehearsals, filming, workshops, and participation events.
Oversee the construction, installation and operation of all scenic, lighting and sound elements.
For full information, responsibilities and terms, please download our Job Pack below.
Location:
Based in Dundee with touring across Dundee, Angus and Perth & Kinross.
Hours: 30 hours per week (full time week is 37.5 hours)
Contract: 3-month fixed term contract with ambition to extend.
Salary: £5,600–£6,400 pro rata, depending on experience, (£28,000–£32,000 FTE), 0.8 FTE, 3-month fixed-term contract (30 hours per week)
To apply:
Please email us your CV and a supporting statement telling us why you are applying for this role and what skills and qualities you will bring to the job. You can do this as either a written statement (max 2 sides of A4), a voice note (10 mins max) or as a video recording (10 mins max).
Please email this to jobs@shapercaper.com with ‘Technical Manager application’ in the subject line.
KEY DATES:
Deadline:12th March at 5pm. All applicants will be informed if they have been shortlisted or not by 5pm on Friday 13th March.
Interview: Tuesday 17th March 2026 in-person at Shaper/Caper’s office in Dundee.
Chair of Shaper/Caper
We are recruiting for a Chair of Shaper/Caper’s Board of Trustees.
Shaper/Caper is a small organisation with a big heart and a bold creative vision.
We are now at a particularly exciting moment. Following multi-year funding from Creative Scotland and the success of productions such as Small Town Boys, we are looking ahead to our next phase of growth with confidence and ambition. This is a wonderful time to step into the role of Chair and help shape what comes next.
As Chair, you will lead a committed and thoughtful board, working closely with our artistic and executive leadership to set strategic direction, champion our values, and ensure the organisation continues to flourish. You will be an advocate for dance, for Dundee and for the artists and communities we serve. Your ability to build strong relationships, communicate clearly and create a supportive, well-governed environment will be central to our continued success.
It is a role with responsibility and also with enormous reward.
We run creative programmes, workshops and performances that are inclusive and accessible. We nurture talent and provide opportunities for people to develop their creative practice and skills. We create high- quality productions that tour throughout Scotland and the UK.
Our work is inspired by stories and ideas from the people and communities we work with in Dundee and beyond.
We would be delighted to hear from you and to learn how your experience, perspective and passion could help lead Shaper/Caper into its next chapter.
To find out more about the role, please download the recruitment pack from our website at https://www.shapercaper.com/workwithus
To apply: please send a written or recorded (either audio or filmed) statement outlining your suitability for the role, why you are applying for this role and what skills and qualities you will bring to the role. Please also share your CV to illistruate your skills and experience. You can do this as either a written statement (2 sides of A4), a voice note (5 mins max) or as a video recording (5 mins max) that can be sent to us. Please send to Thomas Small, Artistic Director at thomas@shapercaper.com
If you'd like an informal chat about the role, please email thomas@shapercaper.com and we can arrange for a trustee to chat with you.
Deadline: Friday 27th March 2026 at 5pm.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
We are always looking for volunteers to support our many projects.
From helping with our Dance for Parkinson’s sessions in Dundee to helping with shows and events, if this is of interest, we’d love to hear from you!
You can pop an email to hello@shapercaper.com or call us on 01382 413007
