Breakthrough is a 6 ‑month employability programme designed as astepping stone to get you workplace experience and all-important employment skills. This short placement gives you insight into afuture career in the Creative Industry, supporting your confidence and professionalism in the workplace, and helping you to break through into acareer that matters toyou!
To assist in the day to day running of our office, handling email and telephone enquiries from competitors, performers, venues, Patrons and the General Public. To support the administration of our 2026 competition and arange of smaller concerts.
This role will include assisting with:
* Assisting with Event online ticket sales
* Managing Competition Entries and entrants
* Assisting the Finance Director with dataentry
* Assisting the Learning &Participation Coordinator
* Supporting the Development Director with research tasks
* Supporting the Concerts Director, coordinating Performers and Venues
* Occasionally assisting at Events
* Supporting the Marketing Team, collating photographs and videos for social media output
This role will give you an all round introduction to all the tasks undertaken in asmall, proactive arts organisation.
About the employer
Hastings International Piano is committed to nurturing musical talent and ensuring that musical opportunities are available to everyone. We promote the biennial Hastings International Piano Competition which is now considered to be one of the top piano competitions in the world, as well as offering performance opportunities to young artists year-round, working tirelessly in our community, and aiming to give every child in Hastings the gift of music through our schools’ programme. The competition was revived in 2005, but our roots go back more than acentury to the Hastings Musical Festival which has been taking place in Hastings since 1908. Our next competition is in February 2026. In recent years the competition has evolved into an internationally-renowned platform for young concert pianists from around the world particularly because it is one of the only international competitions that asks competitors to play complete concertos from the firstround.
In recent years our reputation has grown steadily and we now enjoy apartnership with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.As well as the piano competition, we also run aLearning &Participation programme and promote other events such as an annual Gala concert (featuring winners from the competition).
In 2020, we mounted the Hastings International Piano Festival, amulti-genre celebration of the piano involving pop, classical, jazz and contemporary musicians and singer/songwriters. We produce world-class concerts while maintaining afocus on engaging with and giving learning opportunities to young people.
Deadline for applications
The deadline is 11 : 45 pm, on 17 August
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