ScreenSkills is the industry-led skills body for the screen industries - film, television (including children's, unscripted and high-end), VFX, animation and games. We are supporting the continued growth and future innovation across the whole of the UK by investing in the skilled and inclusive workforce who are critical to the global success of the screen sector. We are supported by industry contributions to our Skills Funds – High-end TV, Film, Animation, Children’s TV, Unscripted TV – and Arts Council England to help people get into the industry and progress within it.
The Bursaries Assistant will primarily be responsible for the smooth running of ScreenSkills’ bursary programme, related meetings and the handling of queries received by the team. The role includes communicating with applicants and potential applicants.
This is a full time fixed term role to March 2025 paying £25,000 - £27,000 per annum depending on experience.
The full Bursaries Assistant job description is available here: https://www.screenskills.com/media/8472/bursaries -assistant-job-description-april-2024-external.pdf
The ideal candidate will have:
* Experience of working in a small team and managing a busy workload with multiple concurrent deadlines
* Experience of following processes that require significant attention to detail, ensuring accuracy at all times
* Experience working in a customer facing role, providing high standard of customer service
* Proven experience of office administration
* Understanding of processing financial and confidential information
* Ability to devise, improve and maintain administrative systems
* Excellent IT skills including the ability to use of all MS Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
* Aptitude to learn BBGM grant management software
* Experience or knowledge of grant making
* Experience of using BBGM
* Experience or knowledge of the screen industries
ScreenSkills offers benefits including:
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Access to financial physical and mental wellbeing support
* Season Ticket Loan
* Eye Care scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Access to Reward Gateway – popular retailer discounts
* Life Assurance
Please submit a completed ScreenSkills job application form and equal opportunities and diversity monitoring form and send your CV and cover letter to jobs@screenskills.com clearly stating how your skills and experiences meet the requirements of the role. The equal opportunities and diversity monitoring form will be separated from your application form prior to the selection process. The information you provided will be treated as confidential data under the Data Protection Act.
Equal opportunities and diversity monitoring form: https://forms.office.com/e/acndq9hsnY
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.
We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application & selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments approach. So, we encourage you to get in touch with us if you require anything jobs@screenskills.com .
In the last two years we have helped 82,000 people across: eLearning, training, events, mentoring, bursaries and stepping up programmes such as Trainee Finder, that’s why having diverse talents and being an organisation where colleagues feel included is crucial to us. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering after a career break, women, people who are LGBTQ+, minority ethnic people, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, from a less advantaged socio-economic background as well as any other under-represented group.
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