Assistant producer

Role title: Assistant Producer - Stage Door Programme

Application Deadline: Friday 20th November 2026 at 12:00pm GMT

Interview stage: w/c 7th December

Location: London

Duration: 3-month traineeship (3 days/ 24 hours a week)

Responsible to: Senior Producer / Artistic Director & CEO

Develop your producing skills through a three-month traineeship supporting artists, community projects and cultural events.

Through theatre and art, Good Chance creates new kinds of communities, collaborating with artists from across the world and connecting people, stories and cultures. Shubbak (meaning ‘window’ in Arabic) supports and celebrates the diversity of Arab and SWANA (South West Asian & North African) artists' creativity and innovation through its professional, participatory and engagement programmes, national touring and biennial multi-artform festival. Working nationally and internationally, we commission, initiate and develop projects that encourage a wide range of creative approaches in an artist-centred, audience focused process.

Good Chance and Shubbak are partnering to offer a creative and supportive placement for someone with experience of forced displacement, to join our team for 3 days a week over three months. This role is part of our commitment to creating inclusive opportunities in the arts and the creative sector.

The Assistant Producer must adhere to the organisational values, policies and procedures. They will liaise with national & international artists as well as venues and partners, help manage logistics for events, and help support the marketing team. Together with the CEO & Artistic Director, Senior and Participation Producers, the Assistant Producer will assist with producing projects for Shubbak’s artistic programme and participation work in the lead up to and on ground at Shubbak Festival 2027.

This traineeship is offered as a professional development opportunity open specifically to people from a refugee or asylum seeking background with lived experience of forced displacement. We are looking for people who already have a foundation of experience in producing and who are excited to continue developing these skills within a supportive professional environment.

What you'll be doing

• Liaison with national and international artists
• Managing logistics for commissions, events, & residencies
• Liaising with venues, locations and partners
• Assisting with developing production plans for events and projects
• Coordinating arrangements for workshops, rehearsals, touring and performances
• Implementing audience development strategies
• Support marketing team to disseminate publicity and content online and offline
• Support in audience, participants, and artists data collection for monitoring and evaluation
• Carrying out outreach for community projects
• Liaise with external organisations on social media campaigns and cross promote events.
• Coordinate with partners’ digital media coordinators and teams on marketing campaigns, including branding and visibility at venues and individual events.
• Comply with Shubbak’s policies and procedures including Environmental, Health and Safety Legislation, Data protection, Safeguarding and Equality & Diversity

Person specification

• Someone from a refugee or asylum-seeking background with lived experience of forced displacement.
• Interest in Arab/SWANA world and/or arts sector
• Interest in participatory projects
• Experience working in arts and culture, community engagement, event management or similar relevant fields
• Experience of working with people from a variety of backgrounds
• Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with a variety of contacts
• Good project management skills
• Understanding of issues relating to diversity & access
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)
• Knowledge/experience of safeguarding within a community/education project context
• Knowledge of Arabic or another SWANA language is not essential, but desirable Placements will be offered training related to their role via London Youth Trainings and one-to-one line management conversations to develop KPIs and a learning plan

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.