Published - Tue, 07 Jan 2025
Job Summary
Discover! is currently funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) with additional support from Arts Council England (ACE). Since launching in 2018, it has connected with thousands of children and young people via industry talks, workplace encounters, lesson plans, and industry informed resources and toolkits, all hosted on the Discover! Creative Careers website. It supports schools and colleges to meet several Gatsby benchmarks, the markers of good careers guidance, through industry informed and created resources, in-person events and training culminating in the annual award-winning Discover! Creative Careers Week each November.
The Discover! programme's key objectives are to:
1. Improve the aspirations and knowledge of young people (11-18 years) and inform their parents/carers of pathways and opportunities to enter the creative industry workforce - especially those from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
2. Improve teachers and careers advisors' knowledge of careers and pathways into the creative industries, enabling them to provide specialist information, advice and guidance.
3. Improve industry's perception of the value of early engagement with educators and young people to support their future talent pipeline.
In addition, it aims to address urgent challenges connected to skills shortages, building a highly skilled, productive and inclusive workforce for the future, whilst providing equity of opportunity to young people in areas of the country facing the greatest disadvantage - currently focused on 77 priority areas across England.
This is a full-time fixed term role up to 31 March 2025. This is a hybrid working role with 2 days per week working in our ScreenSkills office. The salary for the role is £23,933 per annum.
Job Requirements
The ideal candidate will have the following experience and skills:
1. Experience of working with databases such as Mailchimp, Excel, HubSpot or similar bespoke system.
2. Experience of working with a website content management system to update digital platforms.
3. Experience of supporting online events such as video webinars.
4. Excellent communication and organisational skills.
5. Experience of Adobe Creative Suite or other design/editing software.
6. Ability to work independently and prioritise workload to meet fixed deadlines.
7. Ability to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders, both internal and external.
8. Ability to work proactively, diplomatically, and supportively with stakeholders to deliver a single project.
9. Proactive, with a 'can do' attitude.
Preferred:
1. Experience of working on careers, training and/or education programmes.
The full list of job requirements can be found in the full job description below.
Job Responsibilities
1. Managing the Discover! general email inbox, fielding enquiries and disseminating to the team.
2. Supporting the effective filing of key programme documentation to ensure clear audit trails are always kept.
3. Setting up and minuting quarterly steering group and sub-committee meetings; liaising with finance to raise purchase orders, collecting relevant details from suppliers.
4. Updating the Discover! website using the content management system, including written updates to webpages and downloads, uploading digital content, editing, and approving content submissions, checking for broken links.
5. Working with the programme's steering group to ensure job profiles and other sub-sector careers information is up to date and cover the breadth of the Creative Industries.
The full list of job responsibilities can be found in the full job description below.
Job Title: Programme Assistant - Discover! Creative Careers
Please submit a completed ScreenSkills job application form to jobs@screenskills.com clearly stating how your skills and experiences meet the requirements of the role.
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