Job Description
CF Children, Education and Justice Services
Reel Youth Media - Creative Digital Production Trainee Post - fixed term until 28/03/2026
Various locations
Salary: £12.76 per hour
Hours: 0 per week - casual position
Reel Youth Media is a digital media music making programme for young people aged between 12 - 19 years old, which aims to develop technical and creative skills to enable young people to create innovative digital media content. We support young people to produce all sorts of innovative digital media content including multitrack digital audio recordings, music videos, video interviews, digital graphics, digital photography, and video content.
The Reel Youth Media Creative Digital Production Trainee will be managed by the Reel Youth Media Coordinator and, as part of the wider RYM and Totally Sound Youth Music team, will support young people to engage in creative music-based productions.
We are looking for someone with an interest, qualification, or background in the use of digital media technologies such as photography, videography, sound production, or graphic design to deliver learning opportunities for young people to engage with digital media technologies and create music-based digital content.
The core hours are 40 hours per academic term across three terms, with regular hours on Saturdays from 12.30 - 4.30pm.
The post is based at Edinburgh College Milton Road Campus.
The rate of pay for this trainee post is £12.76 per hour.
There will be additional hours offered throughout the 3 terms to cover a variety of live music events, end-of-term live events, and satellite pathway provision operating from other venues. The 2025/26 Reel Youth Media budget allows for 186 hours of trainee engagement.
The Creative Digital Production Trainee post offers a unique opportunity to work with a highly skilled team of experienced digital and music creatives. We are looking for a candidate who has an interest in supporting young people's learning and creative development.
Reel Youth Media and Totally Sound offer young people a unique space where they form creative partnerships supported by a skilled team of creatives. As a member of this creative team, you will play a significant role in shaping this provision to suit the requirements and needs of the young participants.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more outside the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experiences, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
Requirements
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity, and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page.
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