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!
Working closely with ArtfulScribe’s directors, the Assistant Producer will support ArtfulScribe’s programme of live events and activities, particularly Play on Words, the New Forest’s Literature Festival, and ArtfulScribe’s LitFest in Southampton. The successful candidate will take ahands on role with assisting event planning and delivery, administration, marketing and communications.
This role will include assisting with:
* Day to day administration and communications in the ArtfulScribe office
* Coordinating workshops and live events and liaising with venues and artists for Play on Words, the New Forest’s Literature Festival, and ArtfulScribe’s LitFest in Southampton
* Setting up events, ticketing, evaluation forms and mailouts
* Creating newsletters and social media content
There may also be the potential to directly assist workshop facilitation, depending on the candidate’s skills and interests.
About the employer
ArtfulScribe is aSolent-based literature development agency, delivering awide and varied programme of classes, workshops, events and engagement activities for children, young people and adults, alongside professional skills development for writers.
At ArtfulScribe we believe in the power of literature to make meaningful change in people’s lives, creating asense of community, building confidence and resilience, and improving well-being. We increase literacy and nurture enjoyment of reading, writing and storytelling in young people. We empower marginalised voices in our local communities through projects that foster greater understanding of specific groups and celebrate differences. We aim to support the articulation of, and share stories and writing focused on, creating abetter world, calling for action and encouraging hope on themes such as climate change, place-making, equity and inclusion.
We are acommunity interest company and have asmall and friendly core team based at Mayflower Studios in Southampton, working with awide range of associate writers and facilitators and supported by our expert Advisory Group.
Deadline for applications
The deadline is 11 : 45 pm, on 17 August
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