Digital content assistant

Salary: £13.45 per hour

Location: Glasgow

Contract type: Fixed term PAYE contract (October 2026 – April 2027)

Hours: 7 hours per day, two days per week (Tuesday is a set day with flexibility of the other), 1 hour lunch break unpaid.

Closing date for applications: Monday 14 September at 12 noon

Passionate about theatre and digital storytelling? Help bring productions and community projects to life online.

Citizens Theatre and Good Chance are partnering to offer this new opportunity for someone with experience of forced displacement to join the Citizens Theatre marketing team. We are seeking an independent and digitally savvy assistant to support two exciting strands of work within our theatre. First, the promotion of our major Christmas production, Cinderella, in 2026. And secondly, telling the story of Navigate, a community arts project created in collaboration with people with lived experience of seeking sanctuary.

This is a hands-on opportunity for someone passionate about theatre, social media, storytelling and community engagement. You’ll help create dynamic digital content, capture behind-the-scenes moments, support campaigns across social platforms. You will connect audiences with work that matters. From festive rehearsals and opening nights to workshops, artist interviews and community voices, you’ll help shape how people experience these projects online.

Reporting to the Digital Officer, there is an expectation that the suitable person will be able to demonstrate existing experiences and examples of their digital skills. This experience could be in a professional setting, a placement, or within your own life. The role is focused on supporting someone in digital marketing, content creation or arts communication. It is an opportunity to take a career step forward, experience a vibrant theatre environment, and contribute to work with genuine social impact.

Responsibilities

As our Digital Content Assistant, you would support the marketing team in promoting two major projects:

Cinderella (Christmas production 2026)

• Create and schedule social media content
• Capture behind-the-scenes footage, rehearsals, and production highlights
• Assist with marketing campaigns to attract audiences
• Monitor social media trends and audience engagement
• Contribute creative ideas for reaching new and diverse audiences

Navigate (Community arts project)

• Help tell authentic stories from a community arts project working alongside asylum seekers
• Create engaging digital content including interviews, workshop coverage, and community storytelling for a range of digital platforms
• Support audience engagement around socially impactful work
• Capture behind-the-scenes photography and/or video content during rehearsals, events and workshops
• Work with artists, participants and theatre staff to create accessible and inclusive content

Person specification

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.

Essential

• Creative, curious and confident using social media and digital tools
• Interested in storytelling and digital content production
• Keen to explore photography or video creation
• Organised, collaborative and eager to learn in a fast-paced creative environment
• Excited by community-led arts practice and inclusive storytelling
• Passionate about theatre, culture and social impact

Desirable

• Basic IT skills and competent Microsoft Office user

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.