Freelancers

Mission Statement

Our technical team is a high-achieving operational group of technicians, who deliver Imperial's ambitious events programme throughout the year. We are the technical experts behind the event, delivering over 430 events a year including key moments, highlights throughout the year include Graduation at the Royal Albert Hall, Ministerial Announcements and Annual Lectures. We aim to provide a tailored technical support service to all our clients, whether that is a strategy-focused event or delivering a hybrid conference for a department on a strict budget. Our goal is to deliver for our internal community by providing a reliable and high-quality event.

As a team of passionate technicians, we have developed our expertise and services to meet the ever-growing requirements of our community. To enable our team to deliver the best, we are proud to stock some of the best equipment, you can read more about our investment in our equipment inventory below.

Our success as a team is down to our freelancers, with our core values of community and excellence at the heart of what we do together; we care about our freelancers’ experience when working with us, and we strive to continuously listen and understand how we can develop. We have great pride of our event delivery record and as we look ahead, we want to keep our commitment to delivering great events.

Working With Us

The Technical Events Team at Imperial is always on the lookout for new talent to add to our existing pool of established freelance Audio Visual technicians who are the backbone of every event delivered for Imperial. We have technicians from every different audio-visual discipline working together to provide seamless events every day for the Imperial community.

Whilst the roles listed below are how we define our techs, we always love to see technicians who can mix and match these skills and don’t mind helping with different jobs when needed during an event.

Expectations

Audio Technicians

Confident with running live sound and mixing outputs for livestreams and recordings, AVoIP workflows should be understood and experience with d&b audiotechnik products is a bonus.

Camera Operators

Confident in setting up, routing and operating cameras for our livestream and recorded events, including adjusting settings where needed to ensure smooth livestreaming and recording outputs.

Vision Mix Technicians

Confident running livestreamed events, mixing content live via our vision mixers and understand the signal flow along with this. Confident in multiple different presentation software and with hybrid style events with remote attendees and speakers is always a bonus.

Lighting Technicians

Confident in setting up, programming and operating the range of lighting we have for our events, advising the client on the event on colours and effects and what will look best for their event. Some of our kit is listed below.

General Technicians

Audio Visual techs who don’t mind the manual tasks such as setting up stages, rigging truss and setting up exhibition style events such as power requirements and displays. 

AVoIP

We expect all our technicians to understand and be able to work with AVoIP workflows including Dante, NDI & Milan. Audio Technicians are expected to have obtained Dante Level 1 & 2.

Equipment

Equipment we use

We have an extensive range of equipment, take a look at what we typically use day-to-day:

Freelancer Profiles

Meet our Freelancers! Some of Our Freelance Technicians have been working with us for years, these are some you might meet on your event.

Ready to Join our Team?

We undertake a freelancer recruitment and selection process annually. This gives us a chance to add new skilled technicians onto our books ahead of the next year of events. If you're interested in joining our team, please keep an eye on Indeed for an opening. We aim to open applications in the Autum with selections taking place within 6-weeks after the application deadline.