Community Studio Apprentice

Join us to gain hands-on experience supporting and facilitating creative programmes, developing practical skills in storytelling, media production, events and engagement while contributing to inclusive projects that bring people together and create real impact.

Requirements

• Willingness to undertake an enhanced DBS check if required.
• Ability to work evenings and weekends for events and community activities.
• Comfortable engaging confidently with people from diverse backgrounds, including the global majority LGBTQ+ communities and disabled people.
• A commitment to inclusive practice, equity and respectful communication at all times.
• Right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with community members on creative projects including podcasting, filmmaking and digital storytelling
• Support the delivery of workshops, story circles and intercultural dialogue sessions
• Assist with studio set-up, equipment preparation and basic technical operation during sessions
• Carry out community outreach and engagement, recruiting participants and volunteers
• Represent the organisation at local events, meetings and stakeholder forums
• Help maintain relationships with partners, community groups and referral organisations
• Support project administration including scheduling, monitoring attendance and collecting feedback
• Assist with impact reporting, evaluation data collection and documenting outcomes
• Contribute to social media content, newsletters and audience engagement activity
• Help coordinate public showcases, screenings and community events
• Support progression pathways by helping participants move into volunteering or leadership roles
• Carry out general operational tasks that contribute to the smooth running of Elevate Studios
• Plan, organise and co-ordinate education and community engagement projects on behalf of the organisation, in order to ensure the facilitator (visiting artist or company colleague, freelancer or volunteer) can deliver effectively
• Identify learning objectives of education and community engagement projects and suitability for target audience.
• Work within a set budget, use appropriate resources, venues, systems and technologies to implement the CLP projects ensuring they meet stated objectives and outcomes.
• Ensure projects comply with the organisation’s Health & Safety policies and procedures including Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
• Communicate clearly and effectively, adapting methods both verbal and non-verbal as appropriate to the stakeholder or audience, which may include public speaking and/or using social media and digital communication methods.
• Communicate the CLP projects aims, which may include artistic or cultural outcomes, skills and knowledge development, or a range of social and educational outcomes to audiences, partners and colleagues.
• Produce clear, concise project reports, fundraising applications and other written communications.
• Find and participate in professional networks such as arts and culture networks, meetings and events, performances and exhibitions, training and professional development events and industry membership schemes, in order to benefit the organisation.
• Establish, develop and maintain positive relationships with a wide variety of internal and external partners, artists, colleagues, participants and audiences that result in and/or enable successful projects.
• Build effective professional arts and cultural networks and identify the benefits they bring to the projects and wider organisation.
• Contribute and manage audience/participant/venue bookings and ensure artists/external practitioners are recruited for projects as per the organisation’s policies and procedures, including contracting requirements.
• Maintain artist/external practitioner and audience records as directed, which may include personal data, in-line with employer systems and data protection requirements.
• Have excellent time management skills, demonstrating your ability to be organised, meet deadlines within project timeframes and meet budgets requirements.
• Evaluate projects and use feedback to improve current and/or future activity.
• Provide high quality content, which may be in written or image form, as required, to internal/external communications for example e-bulletins, newsletter content, posters, print and meetings, to aid the promotion of, and engagement with, the organisation’s learning and participation programme.
• Contribute to fundraising activities including desk research on potential funding sources, note taking at audience consultation meetings, compiling data and information.
• Identify problems, generate and form ideas to resolve issues, by thinking creatively in response to challenges and identifying when to seek help and support from others.
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues, creative and cultural professionals and other organisations and partners to achieve project aims and objectives.