Trainee programmes coordinator

Closing date for applications: 1st January 2026 at 5.00pm

Salary: London Living Wage

Location: London

Duration: 6 months

Working hours: 26.25 hours per week (3.5 days)

Start date: 2nd February 2026

This six-month internship provides the opportunity to develop the practical skills and insight needed to facilitate performing arts workshops that engage and inspire children.

Fresh Arts is an expert provider of arts education for children of all ages. It is committed to widening participation in the arts. Fresh Arts believes that every child should have the opportunity to participate in high quality arts education with gifted, passionate and highly trained professionals.

This role is a trainee role for programmes coordinator. By the end of the six months we hope the candidate will have gained the skills and knowledge to operate as a programmes coordinator, facilitating after school clubs as well as carrying out administration support tasks daily.

Funded as part of the ViBrent initiative, this placement will benefit from rotational opportunities among the ViBrent partner organisations. This could include mentorship and/or shadowing, and offers the opportunity to apply new skills in different environments while building a professional network that spans multiple organisations. These occasions can be tailored around the successful applicant to make sure they suit their individual interests and professional goals.


Key activities

• Receive training to be able to deliver facilitation in schools every day, either during the school day or afterschool, and in our building
• Receive training to assist and then lead group performing arts classes
• Events support
• Administration and general office-based tasks that may be required every morning before going to teach, including but not limited to:
  • Supporting participants and their families
  • Administrative and organisation support for all programmes
  • Liaising with schools and parents
  • Answering the phones and admin email inbox and dealing with daily queries

What we are looking for

• Passionate and committed to creating world-class arts engagement opportunities for children
• A background and/or training in performing arts - this could be through attending classes, studying at school or any other experiences
• Experience facilitating groups
• Excellent communication skills - a high standard of both written and verbal with the ability to draft clear emails and communications and a strong, polite and friendly telephone manner
• A team player with the ability to work collaboratively, build positive working relationships and provide a friendly service to people
• Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills
• Has an enhanced DBS check or is willing to obtain one as this role involves working with children

To apply

• Log in to your Creative Access account or register today to apply for this opportunity
• Upload your CV and cover letter as one document, please confirm in your cover letter if you’re from or currently living in Brent (applications without a tailored cover letter will not be accepted)
• Once submitted, you can no longer amend your application, so proof-read carefully
• Do not contact the company directly
• Please email any queries about this role to Creative Access at this address: recruit@creativeaccess.org.uk

This opportunity is open to individuals who are from or live in the borough of Brent and are also 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.

The successful candidate for this opportunity will also participate in a Creative Access support programme that sits alongside workplace training. This includes a programme of induction training, monthly masterclasses, wellbeing support, buddying / mentoring and more.