Social media & content creation trainee

Closing date for applications: Monday 23 November at 9am

Role title: Social Media & Content Creation Trainee (Stage Door Programme)

Salary: LLW, £14.80ph

Location: Hackney Empire, 291 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ, with some ability to work from home, where responsibilities, events and workload allow. There is step free access throughout the building

Hours of work: Equivalent to an average of 21 hours per week excluding lunch breaks. There will be some evening and weekend work required as part of this role, for which we operate a TOIL (Time Off In Lieu) system

Duration: 3-month traineeship

Interviews: w/c 7th December

Ideal start date: Monday 11th January

Looking to build your experience in content creation? Help promote performances, creative programmes and opportunities through social media and digital storytelling.

Through theatre and art, Good Chance creates new kinds of communities, collaborating with artists from across the world and connecting people, stories and cultures.

Hackney Empire and Good Chance are partnering to offer this new opportunity for someone with experience of forced displacement to join the Hackney Empire team. The Social Media and Content Creation Trainee will sit across our Creative Development, and Marketing & Communications teams.

What you'll be doing

You will support the teams with creating and sharing content via our social media platforms. The role is focussed on public facing communications and direct correspondence with audiences, participants and community stakeholders. These might include young people, schools, community groups and local businesses. You will work with colleagues to understand our different stakeholders, and how best to share information about our shows, programmes and opportunities with them.

You will work on social media campaigns and content creation, designing and distributing printed media, including flyers and posters, and speak to our communities face-to-face at events and meetings.You will also monitor shared email inboxes, and cascade information accordingly. During the period of engagement you will work on a range of exciting programmes and shows including the launch of Creative Futures 25th birthday year, our flagship talent showcase, Alter Ego and our Nanny of the Maroons related Nannies of Today podcast and showcase.

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Managing the Creative Futures social media channels, with support and input from the Marketing team and our Young Producers.
• Advising on how best to tell our story and reach different audiences via our public facing channels.
• Creating content for social media channels and our website.
• Contributing to social media campaigns on the wider Hackney Empire social media channels
• Managing shared inboxes and cascading information to team members.
• Sending communications via text and email to project participants and audiences.
• Assisting with department administration as required.
• Supporting with communications around events and guest evenings
• Engaging with the Hackney Empire Young Producers, Young Board and Teacher’s Network in order to better understand their communication and content needs.

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. You do not need extensive experience to apply, but we do ask that candidates have some experience in content creation and/or digital storytelling. This could be in a professional capacity, through university placements or independent projects.

Essential The successful candidate will:

• Be enthusiastic and ready to learn • Have demonstrable experience of creating and editing video content
• Have the ability to tell stories via digital mediums such as video, photo and or/podcast
• Be interested in the arts and community engagement
• Be comfortable with computer-based admin tasks and familiar with Microsoft applications such as Word and Excel
• Be a good timekeeper
• Have the ability to manage their own time and use initiative

• Have good working knowledge of social media platforms such as Instagram and Tik Tok

Desirable The successful candidate might:

• Have created digital content that is not for personal platforms. This might be for a voluntary or community group, or as part of a course of study
• Have a creative practice that involves storytelling via digital mediums such as video, photo and/or podcast
• Have experience working in an administrative and/or communications role
• Have experience working with children and young people
• Have experience in a customer and/or participant facing role
• Have a creative practice that involves storytelling via digital mediums such as video, photo and/or podcast

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.