Jobs and recruitment assistant trainee

Closing date for applications: 26th May 2025 at 11.59 pm

Compensation: £1,837 per month, paid as a tax-free training allowance (this is equivalent to a salary based on London Living Wage + 50p per hour).

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday (typically 09:30-17:30)

Duration: 12 months

Location: Hybrid – minimum of two days per week in the Creative Access offices in Camden and/or White City, London.

Interviews: w/c 9th June

Ideal start date: Mid-June 2025 onwards

We are excited to announce we are now looking for someone to join our team on a 12 month paid traineeship in the Access team. Supporting our vision to make the creative industries a more diverse and inclusive place, we need an exceptional recruitment team to support candidates to reach their full potential. Would you like to contribute?

Creative Access is the leading organisation working to create equity, diversity and inclusion in the UK creative industries. We provide career-long access, opportunities, support and training to make the creative industries better reflect society. Our mission is to break down the barriers faced by those from historically under-represented groups to accessing and building careers. 

Traineeship overview

The trainee will learn about and get experience in all the different areas of the Access team, with a focus on our recruitment, candidate engagement and opportunities board activities. Through hands-on experience in our friendly and collaborative team, you'll gain valuable insight and skills related to running recruitment processes, managing job listings and setting up interviews and online webinars.

Traineeship objectives

• Support the administration, planning and delivery of our job listings and recruitment processes
• Write engaging and inclusive copy and social posts relating to our jobs, recruitment and outreach services.
• Provide key administrative help across the wider Creative Access team, gaining experience across other career support activities and events.
• You'll play a key part in supporting candidates from under-represented groups to secure employment within the creative industries through dependable, solid support to the organisation. At the same time – through hands-on experience in our friendly and collaborative team – you'll gain valuable insight and skills needed to thrive in a social enterprise or recruitment team.

What you will learn

• Learn to use our candidate database (Applicant Tracking System) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Salesforce system, while assisting with data inputting
• Write engaging and inclusive job adverts and upload these to our opportunities board
• Engaging post creation for sharing vacancies across social media, university contacts, alumni and wider networks.
• Learn to produce weekly and monthly reports for the team, collating data on registrations and roles at various stages
• Find out about an amazing array of employer partners in the creative industries
• Support the evaluation report on intern cohorts
• Assist with marketing, outreach and events with universities and youth organisations
• Answer enquiries from candidates via email
• Provide admin support to the wider team
• Assist with recruitment data capture and analytics
• Set up and schedule Zoom meetings/webinars
• Learn to offer and reject candidates for roles

If you’re successful, you’ll be enrolled on to our  Springboard: entry support programme through which you’ll have access to exclusive monthly masterclass events, training to support your professional development and opportunities to connect with other creatives in our community – all designed to help you progress and develop your career.

Knowledge, skills, experience

• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and work to deadlines
• Experience using Microsoft Office programmes, including PowerPoint, Outlook, Word and Excel
• An interest in recruitment, talent engagement and supporting people’s career journeys.
• An interest in learning to use data and innovative technologies to drive inclusion and positive impact
• An interest in diversity, inclusion and accessibility issues and what is going on across the wider creative sector
• A genuine commitment to Creative Access’s aims and values

Hours of work & hybrid-working: Standard working hours for the Access team are 09:30 – 17:30 Monday to Friday. We operate a hybrid-working with two days per week in either our White City or Camden offices. The post-holder will be expected to assume duties outside of working hours on occasion (including evening work) to support the delivery of the role and operation of the organisation. We operate a time off in lieu (TOIL) policy and are open to discussing flexible terms.

To apply

Upload your CV and cover letter as one document (applications without a tailored cover letter will not be accepted)

Once submitted, you can no longer amend your application, so proof-read carefully

Please email any queries about this role to Creative Access at this address: recruit@creativeaccess.org.uk

Please note:
Successful applicants will be invited to interview w/c 9 June 2025 with a view to taking up the position Mid-June 2025 onwards.

This opportunity is open to individuals from groups that are under-represented in the creative industries. This includes, but is not limited to, individuals who identify as Black, Asian, or from other ethnically diverse backgrounds, or people of any ethnicity who belong to the following under-represented groups: disabled people, people with the characteristic of gender reassignment, individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, carers and asylum seekers.