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Closing date for applications: 19 September 2025Salary: £30,500 per annum (pro rata for 10-month contract), pension contributions, 28 days holiday (pro rata) and travel and lunch expenses (for shoots and events on location)Position title: Content producerLocation: Hounslow, Greater LondonContract type: Fixed-term (10 months), full-timeStart date: September 2025Reports to: Project managerPlease note: This is a fixed-term role for 10 months. The advertised salary is based on the full-time annual rate of £30,500 and will be calculated on a pro rata basis according to the contract length. This role will involve working evenings and weekends. Use your digital storytelling skills to celebrate and amplify the cultural heritage of LGBTQ+ people from migrant and global majority communities.At Elevate Community Productions CIC (ECP), we envision a society where people from minoritised communities have the confidence, skills, and opportunities to thrive both creatively and economically.We increase well-being and enhance career prospects for these groups, breaking down socio-economic barriers and driving long-term personal and professional growth. Through performing arts, media and heritage projects, we provide safe, inclusive spaces for participants to build industry-relevant skills and intercultural competencies.The content producer will play a key role in the "Queer Global" project, focusing on the digital aspects of documenting and celebrating the cultural heritage of LGBTQ+ people from the global majority and migrant communities in West London. This position involves overseeing the production of digital content, including co-creation with our service users, managing social media platforms, web design and ensuring high-quality digital outputs for broad accessibility. ResponsibilitiesDigital content production<ul><li>The creation of digital content, including podcasts, social media content, event videos, photography and project related documentaries</li><li>Oversee all stages of digital content production, from planning and scripting to recruiting, filming, editing, and publishing</li><li>Ensure that all digital outputs are of high quality and align with the project’s goals, vision and funder acknowledgement guidelines</li><li>Design marketing and promotional campaigns and create materials such as photographs, flyers, posters, digital content, trailers and banners to recruit project participants, event attendees and audiences</li><li>Occasional attendance at events will be needed to capture content, requiring a flexible approach to travel and irregular working hours</li></ul>Technical management<ul><li>Manage all technical aspects of digital media production, including audio and video recording equipment, editing software, and digital storage</li><li>Ensure that all equipment is properly maintained and utilised effectively</li><li>Troubleshoot any technical issues that arise during the production process</li></ul>Digital archiving<ul><li>Develop and maintain a digital archive for the project’s outputs, ensuring that all materials are properly catalogued and stored</li><li>Collaborate with the project partners to integrate digital materials into their existing archives</li><li>Ensure that the digital archive is accessible to the public and future researchers</li></ul>Community engagement<ul><li>Work closely with community members to capture their stories and experiences in digital formats</li><li>Facilitate workshops (co-creation labs) and events that engage the community in the production and sharing of digital content</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Proven experience and advanced skills in digital media production, including audio and video editing (Adobe Creative Cloud, Davinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro)</li><li>Excellent camera operation skills for video production and stills photography</li><li>Excellent project coordination and ability to deliver work on time</li><li>Ability to handle constructive feedback with a positive attitude and demonstrate resilience when revising work, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with project goals</li><li>Strong communication and interpersonal skills</li><li>Deep understanding and keen insights into social media content conventions and platform-specific trends</li><li>Commitment to inclusivity, diversity, and community empowerment</li></ul>Interested? Press the Apply button to be taken to our online application.&nbsp; We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Elevate Community Productions CIC

Content producer

Closing date for applications: 28th September 2025Salary: £525 per week (gross)Contract: Full-time 18-week paid contract&nbsp;with 6 successful applicants starting 24th February&nbsp;2026. &nbsp;Got brilliant ideas? Want to work in Unscripted TV?&nbsp; NO experience or qualifications necessary.Are you addicted to TV, TikTok, YouTube, Insta and Netflix? Love sharing the amazing thing you just watched? Always thinking&nbsp;"This show would have been way better if they'd done this instead"?Sounds like you? Then YOU are exactly who we are looking for. COME AND WORK WITH US!&nbsp;We are looking for people who LOVE content to help us dream up&nbsp;new exciting Unscripted TV shows. We're running BRIGHTBULB, a unique entry level opportunity that welcomes applications from diverse talent. You don't need any experience or qualifications - just a genuine passion for content, plenty of enthusiasm and a brain fizzing with fresh ideas. Our interns work in a fun, fast paced creative environment in our West London offices. With excellent, experienced support to guide them through their first role in the TV industry.Brightbulb is a full-time 18 week paid contract (at London Living wage of £525 gross per week), with 6 successful applicants starting 24th February&nbsp;2026.&nbsp;The Brightbulb internship consists of 12 weeks of centralised unscripted development training and a 6 week individual placement within one of our Unscripted labels. Who are we? Banijay is the largest international content producer and distributor in the world. With over 120 production companies in 22 territories. Banijay UK is a collective of leading independent producers from all around the UK.All experts in their fields and united in an ambition to create incredible television for the UK and beyond. Banijay UK makes a diverse range of entertainment, reality, quiz, drama, comedy, documentary, factual entertainment and more for all major UK broadcasters, streamers and international platforms. We have a huge catalogue of TV output including&nbsp;Big Brother, Hunted, The Island with Bear Grylls, Would I Lie To You? Sunday Brunch, Building The Band, Pointless, Travels With My Father, Legomasters, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Tipping Point, Hunted&nbsp;and Soccer Aid to name a few! So what are you waiting for? If you are passionate about Unscripted TV, are bubbling with ideas and think you could help us come up with the next new Unscripted TV format, then we would love you to complete this application form. Closing date for applications is Sunday 28th September 2025 at Midnight. Very best of luck with your application, The Brightbulb Team. About the internship<ul><li>You don't need any experience or qualifications - just a genuine passion for content, plenty of enthusiasm and a brain fizzing with fresh ideas.</li><li>This is not a job in production. You won't be making the shows - instead, your job in Development will be coming up with, shaping and pitching&nbsp;brilliant new Unscripted TV formats. Reality, Dating, Quiz, Gameshow, Factual Entertainment and lots more Unscripted.</li></ul> Live outside London?If you live outside the M25 and need to relocate for the job you can apply&nbsp;for a one-off relocation bursary of up to £1,000&nbsp;to help you move. We believe team diversity = creative diversityWe are an inclusive and disability confident employer. We actively encourage applications from individuals from diverse and under-represented backgrounds and are committed to providing a creative and inspirational home for all people.&nbsp;To make sure we are inclusive and accessible to all, please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments or assistance either to help you with your application or in communications or meetings with us by emailing&nbsp;<a href="mailto:brightbulb@banijayuk.com" target="_blank">brightbulb@banijayuk.com</a>.&nbsp;The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.Very best of luck with your application, The Brightbulb Team.

Banijay UK

Unscripted TV Development Internship, Banijay Brightbulb 26

Closing date for applications: 1 September 2025Salary: Total package up to £50kLocation: This role is based in Southampton with occasional travel required. Hours of work will be varied and will include evening and weekends, so flexibility is essential.Department: ProducingReporting to: Creative directorResponsible for: Nationally produced and co-produced workGrade: Leadership team Take the lead on ambitious national productions and drive the partnerships that bring inspiring theatre to life.Mayflower Theatre is the largest theatre on the south coast, welcoming more than 500,000 visitors a year. With a trusted reputation for presenting an eclectic artistic programme including the best in musical theatre, dance, opera, live music, drama and comedy our 2,270-seat venue attracts the world’s best touring productions. Mayflower Theatre is an independent charitable trust, working to the vision of ‘Inspiring Experiences’, ensuring theatre is accessible to all and that our 1928 Grade II listed building is maintained for generations to come.We are seeking a dynamic senior producer to be a key contributor to the creative output of Mayflower Theatre and Mayflower Studios. This is a leadership role that requires a thorough understanding of how to collaborate with innovative artistic teams to create productions and co-productions. Applicants should have demonstrable experience of negotiation and partnership management on a national scale with a track record of producing within the theatre industry.&nbsp;The purpose of this role is:<ul><li>To lead the delivery, development and evaluation of all national producing.</li><li>To develop and deliver co-producing opportunities.</li><li>To ensure that both venues play a full part in the cultural ecology regionally and nationally.</li><li>To contribute to delivering the producing programming objectives.</li></ul> ResponsibilitiesRelationships and reputation<ul><li>Develop the reputation of the company ensuring that quality is maintained across all produced and co-produced work.</li><li>Attend first nights and company events when required and ensure artists are formally welcomed.</li><li>Represent the organisation at partner, stakeholder and industry meetings as required.</li><li>Keep abreast of industry news, developments and maintain a professional network and use this knowledge and connections to inform producing proposals.</li><li>Manage and maintain excellent relationships with our partners, stakeholders, funders, producers, artists and internal teams to continue to develop the produced and coproduced programme and maximise net revenue for the company.</li><li>Ensure that Mayflower plays an active role in the regional and national arts sector and is seen as a contributor to the cultural ecology.</li><li>Promote the produced programme for advocacy purposes.</li></ul>Producing<ul><li>Manage all aspects of the national, new midscale and large-scale touring produced projects, designing activities and managing events that achieve Mayflower’s business plan and ACE funding objectives.</li><li>Seek and negotiate project/production enhancement and co-production deals.</li><li>Employ excellent communication skills ensuring clarity and timely and efficient responses in all correspondence, keeping creative teams informed and supported throughout projects.</li><li>Manage the production and store supervisor to support in the delivery of all producing projects.</li><li>Manage producing budgets and ensure best value is achieved in all projects.</li><li>Ensure all activity within the producing programmes are delivered to the highest quality and are undertaken safely.</li><li>Collaborate with colleagues and external partners to source new work that fulfils the artistic vision and business plan.</li><li>Plan and manage projects that use arts activity to promote Southampton stories.</li><li>Evaluate all productions to help inform future work.</li><li>Help develop and implement a suitable audience development strategy to support the midscale and some large-scale work.</li><li>Maintain show budgets ensuring that box office income is maximised and artistic costs are controlled.</li><li>Contribute to the collation of statistics for management reports and funders.</li><li>Ensure that systems are in place so that all produced work meets all its Health and Safety requirements.</li></ul>Leadership team<ul><li>Ensure excellent communication to assist in creating a positive working environment for all employees and freelancers and to establish a sense of unity, purpose and engagement.</li><li>Protect the sustainability, income and reputation of Mayflower.</li><li>Manage the operational delivery of organisational objectives.</li><li>Ensure all administrative procedures are in place so that the department meets deadlines and disseminates necessary information efficiently to all internal departments and external stakeholders.</li><li>Contribute to business planning, corporate strategy and annual budgets.</li><li>Attend leadership, senior management and operational meetings, chair and be minute taker as per rota.</li><li>Assist head of department in the preparation of quarterly board reports.</li><li>Take responsibility for the strategic planning of team holidays and days off to ensure adequate operational cover.</li><li>Ensure team appraisals are completed and logged in a timely manner.</li><li>Embrace, promote and ensure the implementation of Diversity and Inclusion policies. Demonstrate a commitment to the broadening of cultural diversity and access across all areas.</li><li>Minimise the company’s environmental impact wherever possible with particular reference to the Environmental Policy and Theatre Green Book 2.</li><li>Take an active role in the Health &amp; Safety activities of our venues.</li><li>Support the delivery of team away days.</li><li>Represent the organisation at a city and national level at appropriate forums.</li><li>Investigate and act upon CSI responses for your department.</li><li>Positively lead, support and develop staff to encourage an effective work force.</li><li>Uphold the Leadership Team Contract of Commitment. Any other duties commensurate with the role and responsibility.</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experienceThe role requires an excellent communicator with a proactive approach, in particular:<ul><li>Experience of delivering ambitious and dynamic professional theatre productions with competing priorities.</li><li>Proven ability to build partnerships and manage effective relationships with other organisations and stakeholders.</li><li>Excellent knowledge of BECTU and Equity guidelines with further knowledge of Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre policies desirable.</li><li>Experience of working in a theatrical producing organisation.</li><li>Strong financial management skills with an understanding of contracting and attention to detail.</li><li>Strong leadership skills.</li><li>Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise with multiple stakeholders and departments effectively.</li></ul> We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Mayflower Theatre

Senior producer - national

Closing date for applications: 12 September 2025Salary:&nbsp;£35,000 - £40,000 per annum, depending on experienceReporting to:&nbsp;Art director, Templar BooksLocation:&nbsp;5th floor, HYLO, 105 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8LZ&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Working pattern:&nbsp;Hybrid - minimum of two days per week in the office; up to three days per week working from home&nbsp;Department:&nbsp;DesignImprint: Templar Books Ready to make your mark in children's publishing? Shape the creative vision behind bold, imaginative and beautifully designed books.Bonnier Books UK is looking for a&nbsp;talented and highly creative senior designer&nbsp;to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to further their career in children’s book design and&nbsp;to contribute to the development of the Templar list.&nbsp;Reporting to the art director, you will design commercial and market-leading picture books, board books and novelty books, nurturing and inspiring both established and upcoming illustrators and creators to deliver their best work.Founded in 1978, Templar publishes original, illustrated children’s books designed to inspire curious minds. We lead in novelty and interactive publishing, creating distinctive, high-quality titles for young children and families - from board books and picture books to novelty, non-fiction, gift and series publishing. Specialising in visually-led, concept-driven books that are playful, immersive and internationally appealing, we craft enduring stories that spark curiosity and enrich family reading experiences worldwide. Responsibilities<ul><li>Find and nurture new illustrator talent across the list, as well as build upon previous successes and author/illustrator partnerships.</li><li>Brief, art direct and create book layouts with strong, distinctive design and fresh, striking typography with market-leading covers.</li><li>To be a key part of the creative team in developing and presenting new ideas, with a particular focus on the&nbsp;non-fiction and&nbsp;novelty lists.</li><li>Negotiating with and commissioning illustrators, either directly or via agents.</li><li>Project-managing and collaborating with production and editorial colleagues to build artwork schedules as agreed with illustrators and freelance designers, with close consideration for the P&amp;L, ensuring projects are delivered within budget and in a timely manner.</li><li>Financial responsibility for the design aspect of own titles, including consulting on profit and loss statements and raising contracts.</li><li>Making sure all files are created to the technical specification and design quality required during all stages – final files, plotters and advance stages.</li><li>Managing 3rd-party contributors, including packagers and other freelance agents that are needed to create a project.</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Excellent technical skills in key software (Adobe Creative Suite/Cloud)</li><li>Experience managing illustrators, freelance designers and agents Experience of managing an in-house designer will be advantageous</li><li>Experience of negotiating, commissioning and contracting illustrators, either directly or via agents</li><li>In addition to being a fantastic designer, you will have excellent organisational skills, experience with people management, the ability to maintain schedules and meet deadlines and liaise closely with the editorial, sales and production teams to ensure that all projects are delivered on time and to the highest standard</li><li>Strong proven experience in children’s books, with the ability to demonstrate creative flair in designing market leading covers and interiors – specifically for non-fiction and novelty titles</li><li>A positive team player with a pro-active approach</li><li>A clear communicator, capable of working effectively with various teams and functions across the business</li><li>A passion for children’s books with expertise in non-fiction and novelty book design/illustration</li></ul> Company benefits<ul><li>Private health insurance</li><li>Holiday purchase scheme</li><li>Contributory pension scheme</li><li>28 days holiday plus bank holidays</li><li>Lively social committee hosting regular events</li><li>Group Life cover - including 24-hour GP service</li><li>Company-funded&nbsp;gym&nbsp;membership for all trade staff</li><li>Comprehensive staff training&nbsp;and&nbsp;mentorship&nbsp;programmes</li><li>Flexible working and flexible hours from day one of employment</li><li>Additional holiday allowance accrued for long service – and a full bonus week of holiday to celebrate your 10th&nbsp;year at BBUK</li><li>Enhanced family leave - with equal six months’ paid leave for all new parents</li><li>Employee assistance programme available to all employees and their families</li><li>Dedicated volunteering hours each year to support charities promoting literacy and reading for pleasure</li><li>Cycle to work scheme with bike storage and changing facilities on-site at our London HQ</li><li>Wellbeing programme and daily benefits such as fresh fruit and porridge in the office</li></ul> If you are interested in this role, please apply on our website via the 'Apply' button. Please include a portfolio PDF when you apply. We look forward to hearing from you. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

LABS Victoria House

Igloo Books

Black & White Publishing

Bonnier Books UK (Head Office)

Bonnier Books UK

Senior designer

Closing date for applications: 19 September 2025Salary: £27,000+ dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)Locations: This role can be based at our London or Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week. Develop your design career in publishing by supporting experienced designers and creating standout, market-leading covers.The John Murray Group, which encompasses John Murray Press, Quercus and John Murray Specialist, is one of the fastest growing and most profitable divisions of Hachette UK, with imprints that encompass a range of bestselling, pioneering and prize-winning publishing.&nbsp;From exciting debuts, crime fiction and celebrity-led titles, to lifestyle, memoir, history and thought-provoking non-fiction, we are home to bestselling authors and brands such as Billy Connolly, Miriam Margolyes, Mick Herron, Trevor Noah and Akala. Short-listed for Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2022.&nbsp;We pride ourselves on being entrepreneurial, curious, and excited about discovering and nurturing new voices that can shape and shake our world.This an exciting opportunity for a creative and organised individual, who is looking to start their career in publishing design. Reporting to the deputy art director, you will be developing market-leading designs for our book covers, with a particular focus on our specialist non-fiction imprints. These imprints include Sheldon Press, John Murray Business, Hodder Faith and John Murray Learning. Not only will you be fully immersed in the whole cover design process with guidance from senior designers, but you will be adapting international buy-in titles to fit the UK market, and supporting the wider team with their own creative projects.You’ll be full of creative energy and thrive on working with an engaged, passionate, and close-knit team, where you can learn and develop your skills. Your portfolio will demonstrate a strong understanding of type and image, as well as a range of projects showing an understanding of designing for specific markets. You will be full of ideas, and eager to learn and develop in this fast paced, supportive environment. Responsibilities<ul><li>To be responsible for appropriate and distinctive designs that fit market needs across all imprints, with a particular focus on our Specialist non-fiction imprints</li><li>To be personally responsible for designing approximately 30 covers per year</li><li>Seeing through projects from initial research and visuals stage to sending print ready files to production</li><li>Supporting senior colleagues with artworking tasks</li><li>Adapting international buy-in artwork to fit best within the UK market</li><li>Keeping up to date with publishing and design markets and trends, to inform your designs</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Technical design skills, including proficiency with a Mac and Adobe creative software (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, etc.)</li><li>A portfolio which shows a passion for design, full of ideas, with range of projects that demonstrate technical skill and market awareness</li><li>Some understanding of both print and digital production techniques</li><li>Happy supporting colleagues as well as working independently on your own projects</li><li>Flexible, highly motivated and organised – can prioritise workloads effectively</li><li>Knowledge of or interest in book design, as well as visual design in general</li><li>Understands consumer needs and how to position a design within the market</li><li>Meticulous eye for detail</li></ul>In your application, please submit your CV, &nbsp;cover letter and portfolio of recent work (which is in the cover letter section). What we offerOur staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:<ul><li>28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)</li><li>Private medical insurance</li><li>Dental insurance</li><li>Generous pension schemes</li><li>Rent deposit loans</li><li>2 community days per year</li><li>Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)</li><li>Retail discounts through Hachette rewards</li><li>Cycle to Work scheme</li><li>Eye care vouchers</li><li>Wide-ranging training library</li><li>Development programmes (including mentoring)</li><li>Up to 70% off book purchases</li><li>A charity bookshelf</li><li>12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including&nbsp;Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing&nbsp;and religious networks</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>And much more!</li></ul> Our commitmentThe Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a> Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds. If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Carmelite House

Hachette UK

Junior designer

Closing date for applications: 31 August 2025Salary: £30,000 - £36,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)Location: This role can be based at our London, Sheffield, or Edinburgh office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and home working (2 days) per week. Want to help bring beautiful books to life? Use your design experience to craft covers and layouts that captivate readers across a diverse range of books and gifts.Octopus publish books for everyone. We love to enlighten, nourish, entertain and most of all inspire readers and listeners everywhere. Octopus is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 11 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds. What you'll be doingWe are looking for an experienced and versatile designer to work across our varied list of illustrated books, games and gifts. This is an opportunity for someone looking to advance their career in book design and work with a team dedicated to producing beautifully designed books that inspire our readers.You’ll be creating covers, layouts and templates with wow appeal and developing and managing the designs right the way through to packaging final files. You'll be the sole cover and layout designer of approximately 20 titles per year and will manage and work with external freelancers on a further 20-25 titles. Those titles could be illustrated gift books in the mind, body, spirit (MBS) space, photographic recipe books, card games with a vintage feel, text-only paperbacks or quirky hardback micro-histories.You will report to the publisher of the Pyramid team and work closely with them, a project editor, editor and a brilliant production team.&nbsp; It's a fun, whirlwind of a role in a team that thrives on spinning plates. Who we are looking for<ul><li>The ideal candidate will have several years' experience of book design (interiors and covers) under their belt and will have worked with both integrated colour and text-only books.</li><li>You'll need to demonstrate advanced technical competence - particularly in Adobe InDesign - as well as an incredibly high level of accuracy and a keen eye for detail, as you will be responsible for handing over final, print-ready files.</li><li>You should have experience working in a fast-paced environment where you are used to working on multiple projects at one time, and be confident in your ability to meet key deadlines on production schedules.</li><li>You'll be a confident communicator as you'll be presenting designs in internal and external meetings, championing our visual strategy and working very closely with a dynamic team where communication and collaboration are key.</li></ul> What we offerOur staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:<ul><li>28 annual leave days per year, increasing to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)</li><li>Private medical insurance</li><li>Dental insurance</li><li>Generous pension schemes</li><li>Rent deposit loans</li><li>2 community days per year</li><li>Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)</li><li>Retail discounts through Hachette rewards</li><li>Cycle to Work scheme</li><li>Eye care vouchers</li><li>Wide-ranging training library</li><li>Development programmes (including mentoring)</li><li>Up to 70% off book purchases</li><li>A charity bookshelf</li><li>12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including&nbsp;Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing&nbsp;and religious networks</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>And much more!</li></ul> Our commitmentThe Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a> Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Designer

Closing date for applications: 12 September 2025 at 1.00pmDepartment: ProductionsReports to: Head of wardrobe/costume designerKey relationships: Head of production, student costume assistants, dressers, company stage managerSalary: Oxford Living WageBased at: Oxford Playhouse, 11-12 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LWHours: Based on 39 hours a week; any work over 39 hours will be paid at overtime rate&nbsp;Timescale: Wardrobe preparation for pantomime 20th October – 14th November, technical rehearsals for pantomime 17th November – 21st November, wardrobe maintenance during pantomime 24th November – 4th January Are you passionate about theatre and costume design? Oxford Playhouse is offering an exciting training opportunity for someone from a refugee or asylum-seeking background to join its pantomime wardrobe team.Oxford Playhouse is looking to recruit a trainee costume assistant for the duration of our 2025/26 pantomime – <a href="https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/events/dick-whittington" target="_blank">Dick Whittington.</a> The Oxford Playhouse pantomime is produced in house with a new script each year. Last year, we won the Special Recognition Award for Innovation at The Pantomime Awards, acknowledging how we are keeping the family tradition fresh and relevant. Written and directed by Toby Hulse, Dick Whittington is inspired by 90s Cool Britannia and follows our hero’s journey to London to defeat the Rattagher brothers.&nbsp;We have partnered with <a href="https://www.goodchance.org.uk/" target="_blank">Good Chance </a>on their <a href="https://www.goodchance.org.uk/stagedoor" target="_blank">Stage Door</a> programme to offer a paid work placement and training opportunity for a candidate from a refugee or asylum-seeking background with lived experience of displacement. The candidate will need to have the right to work in the UK. Stage Door is Good Chance Theatre’s flagship programme for early-career creatives from refugee backgrounds to gain experience in the industry, nurturing the next generation of theatre professionals from across the world.&nbsp;This traineeship will sit as part of a new, growing development of the Stage Door programme, Stage Door 10, which will see ten traineeships rolled out across the country this year. As part of SD10, in the autumn the trainee costume assistant will have the opportunity to become part of a cohort of trainees, meeting together in the second half of the year and benefiting from networking, skills development and masterclass opportunities from Good Chance and their partners. The trainee will also receive a series of mentoring sessions from a team member at Oxford Playhouse towards the end of their traineeship, to support them as they consider their next steps in the theatre industry.This is perfect for someone with a keen interest in tailoring or fashion who is looking to gain experience within a creative environment. You’ll be part of a supportive team that values learning, collaboration and inclusion. A small budget is available for professional development opportunities during the engagement, including training, tickets for theatre shows, attendance at conferences etc. What You Will Do<ul><li>Work closely with the wardrobe team and costume designer to assist in sourcing or creating costumes for the production as needed. You will be part of the wardrobe team which will be led by the costume designer/head of wardrobe and will also include students from Bournemouth University who make many of the costumes as part of their course, and dressers who will be part of the production crew.</li><li>Coordinate and run costume fittings for actors, including the young company (2 groups of 6 young people aged 11-15 years who alternate performance days). Make necessary alterations and adjustments to costumes to ensure a proper fit.</li><li>Provide wardrobe support during rehearsals and performances, ensuring that costumes are correctly worn by all cast members and maintained throughout the production.</li><li>Assist in the upkeep, cleaning, and repair of costumes to ensure they are in excellent condition across the whole performance run.</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>Experience in sewing, dressmaking and/or tailoring</li><li>Attention to detail: A keen eye for detail is essential to ensure costumes are perfect for the production</li><li>Organised and able to manage time: ability to efficiently manage the adjustment and maintenance of multiple costumes at the same time and ensure all costumes are ready to be worn on time</li><li>Communication and team working: ability to communicate calmly with other members of the production team including actors</li></ul>Desirable&nbsp;<ul><li>Experience in costume design , fashion or tailoring is desirable including understanding different fabrics and construction techniques as well as machine and hand sewing skills.</li></ul>For more information and how to apply please visit the Oxford Playhouse website via the 'Apply' button.&nbsp; Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

7 Creative and Design Opportunities in England