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About the Role
This role focuses on developing an understanding of cinema projection technology, audience preferences, box office performance, and programming within our specific marketplace as a multi-arts venue which operates a cinema and a live theatre program in the same venue.
What You'll Do at Work
- Work on projector set up and maintenance, weekly projection scheduling and administration with distributor coordination.
- Assist the film manager on booking of certain titles while learning how programming decisions balance audience demand, critical reviews, and commercial performance.
- Gain insight into how programming connects with audience experience, hospitality, and the overall identity of the venue.
- Test films and create playlists for scheduling on servers and projectors.
- Digitise content and manage servers to ensure all films are ready for presentation. This includes liaising with distributors for missing content and KDMs.
- Create and edit slides and videos for on-screen and social media usage.
- Handle social media posting, including scheduling posts, stories with a mix of advertising and engagement content.
- Design the film brochure on a bi-monthly basis.
- Manage internal presentations such as slides and poster changes.
- Be responsible for start-up and closing down of projectors and the building as a keyholder.
- Run live screenings from satellite broadcasts with volume and lighting changes.
- Manage event screenings which require ordering of merchandise, liaising with guests in advance, presenting, and hosting Q&A’s.
- Assist on financial administration and tracking.
- Research upcoming film releases and benchmark against other cinemas.
Where You'll Work
UNION PLACE WORTHING BN11 1LG
Training
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Training Provider
CHICHESTER COLLEGE GROUP
Training Course
Event Assistant (Level 3)
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Course Contents
- Operational: Gather facts and collate information in response to a brief or request, like searching for the right location and venue for an event.
- Operational: Respond to requests from the different functional teams and carry out a variety of daily and weekly tasks to assist in the planning and preparation of an event.
- Operational: Provide assistance onsite at an event by registering delegates or by helping to assist the onsite team with a variety of tasks.
- Operational: Manage your time effectively by understanding how to prioritise tasks according to their importance and urgency for the stakeholders of an event.
- Operational: Use software packages to create word processing and spreadsheet documents.
- Operational: Contribute to reports, event project plans, and written presentations for clients.
- Operational: Use a range of event technology platforms and in-house bespoke software systems and databases.
- Operational: Show careful attention to regulations and internal policies.
- Professional: Listen, interpret, understand, vocalise, and respond to clients’ needs.
- Professional: Speak and write clearly in order to prepare written communications or provide instructions that are needed for a client, supplier, or team member.
- Professional: Build rapport and trust with the stakeholders of an event so that stakeholders can collaborate well throughout the planning and organisation processes.
- Professional: Question effectively to ensure understanding of what is required from clients or colleagues.
- Professional: Have the skills to maintain relationships with colleagues, suppliers, or clients once they are built, and be able to repair them when they are damaged.
- Professional: Work effectively within a group environment to prepare for, deliver, and/or follow up after an event takes place.
- Commercial: Assist in the preparation, management, and reconciliation of event budgets by collecting information, checking data, and making calculations.
- Commercial: Show how commercial awareness has been applied through task and time management, specifically using efficient and effective measures to conclude a project in the most proficient way.
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Training Schedule
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More Training Information
Training provided by Chichester College.
Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade pass)
- Maths (grade pass)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
- Knowledge of Adobe Suite including Premiere Pro and InDesign.
- A strong interest in cinema and film exhibition.
Company Benefits
- 22 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
- Employee Assistant Programme & Benefits Platform.
- Staff ticket offers on WTM shows, cinema, and events and discounts on bars, kiosks, and retail.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
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This apprenticeship has possible career progression in cinema exhibition, marketing/content, cinema programming, technical roles in cinema.
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WORTHING THEATRES & MUSEUM HR Team hradmin@wtm.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000050658.
Closes in 21 days (Tuesday 22 September 2026)
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