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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.

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Closing date for applications: 20 August 2025Salary: Basic salary per annum starting from £27,125Location:&nbsp;LeedsContract: 6-month FTC, starting September 1st 2025 From press campaigns to streaming platforms, help source eye-grabbing imagery for one of the UK’s most iconic broadcasters.The pictures team is responsible for the commissioning, sourcing, editing, production and distribution of images for use across internal and external platforms to promote Channel 4, including All 4, EPGs, the external media, and wider corporate use.The pictures team reports into the press &amp; publicity department, which is responsible for generating and shaping earned press and media coverage of Channel 4’s programmes, content, services and talent but also works closely with other internal departments including All4, marketing, social &amp; corporate.The picture assistant is responsible for sourcing all additional images that are not currently commissioned by the picture commissioners. These are needed to service the range of images needed for both internal and external uses, All4 and third party platforms and include both acquisitions and non-priority shows. Responsibilities<ul><li>Working as part of the new pictures team this role needs to liaise with UK production companies, US studios, Walter Presents and all other acquisition partners to acquire high-quality, eye-grabbing imagery that can be used across all Channel 4 platforms, internal needs and external press</li><li>Work with the asset manager, picture commissioners, picture editors and picture operations manager to ensure the right images are sourced to promote Channel 4’s content and programmes</li><li>Deliver assets to the various platforms and digital asset management systems, to include metadata</li><li>Manage the upkeep of the Channel 4 press images website</li><li>Respond and manage the distribution of images to internal and external requests, when solutions cannot be found via the press website/internal pictures team DAM system</li><li>Assist picture commissioners with all aspects of photography production when required</li><li>Collaborate with picture commissioners to commission photography for lower priority shows when required</li><li>Deliver imagery that supports the priorities set out by pictures operation manager in conjunction with press, All 4, marketing, social and corporate</li><li>Realise the Channel 4, Channel 4 Streaming, E4 &amp; More 4 tone-of-voice through sophisticated image selection and adhere to platform editorial guidelines as agreed with All 4 Editorial team</li><li>Work with the pictures operation manager and the wider pictures and All 4 teams to advise external and internal clients on the supply of picture assets for use across the Channel with a view to achieving on-going improvements in the quality of supplied images</li><li>Play an active role in building a collaborative and generous culture</li><li>Enshrine the 360 Diversity Charter in work practices</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience Technical &amp; professional&nbsp;<ul><li>Proven experience in obtaining high-quality images from a variety of sources and picture editing</li><li>Proven experience working within a digital/future media environment</li><li>Knowledge of Photoshop/Lightroom</li><li>Knowledge of Digital Asset Management Systems</li></ul>Autonomy/judgement/decision making<ul><li>Working to tight deadlines</li><li>Can be flexible and re-prioritise when requirements change</li></ul>Managing resources<ul><li>Ability to plan ahead, make good decisions, analyse different possibilities, and effectively accomplish a wide variety of tasks</li><li>Anticipates the possibility that amendments have to be made and plan accordingly</li><li>Adapts and integrates new information into a nearly completed project</li></ul>Relationship management<ul><li>Strong communication skills to work closely with and advise production companies, pictures team, All 4 team, press &amp; publicity</li></ul>Complexity/problem solving<ul><li>Ability to problem solve, handle competing priorities, be able to multi-task and have the ability to effectively process and re-organise planning structures to ensure a successful conclusion</li></ul>Business impact/strategic perspective<ul><li>Understanding of Channel 4’s brand values</li><li>Knowledge of the television industry</li></ul> Channel 4’s purpose is to create change through entertainment; by representing unheard voices, challenging with purpose and delivering content which reflects the diversity of different communities across the UK. We are only able to deliver on this remit by having a workforce rich in diversity of thought, background and lived experience. As an employer we encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on disability, age, gender reassignment, gender expression, criminal history, length of time spent unemployed, marriage or civil partnership status, national origin, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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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.

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Closing date for applications:&nbsp; 24 August 2025Salary: £30-33k depending on experienceContract Type: One-year contract&nbsp;(including 3-month probation) Bring your design skills and passion for factual storytelling to this junior role, and help turn global news stories into engaging short-form videos. &nbsp;&nbsp;The Economist’s award-winning video department produces factual content that reflects the newspaper’s global outlook. Our short, focused videos deliver clear, incisive analysis in a compelling, accessible format. They attract millions of views each month and are published on our website and app, and across platforms including Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook and TikTok.We are seeking a motivated and dynamic graduate or graphic designer to join our video team as a&nbsp;junior motion-graphics designer.&nbsp;In this role we will train you in motion design so you can help to create editorial and data-driven videos and visual assets for use across our digital platforms. You should have a strong willingness to learn and effective communication and solid illustration skills, along with a keen interest in video, global politics, current affairs and factual storytelling. An interest in data visualisation and map creation would be a plus. Responsibilities&nbsp;As a junior motion-graphics designer your main responsibility will be to support the development and creation of motion graphics for our short-form vertical videos. You will gain hands-on experience across all stages of video production and the wider editorial process. From storyboarding to delivering final assets, you will develop skills in typography, data visualisation, map design and motion graphics for editorial storytelling. If you are curious, eager to develop and excited to help shape&nbsp;The Economist’s video output, we would love to hear from you. Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Demonstrable proficiency in Illustrator and Photoshop</li><li>Creative thinking in order to conceive, generate and implement ideas</li><li>The ability to take an analytical approach to design, initiative and decision-making</li><li>Planning and organising with meticulous attention to detail in design, planning and execution</li><li>Proactivity and the ability to make quick, well-judged and informed decisions, as well as innovative ideas and techniques</li><li>Works well under pressure, to tight deadlines and in a variety of situations, with different individuals or groups</li><li>A basic understanding of After Effects, Premiere Pro, 3D Pipeline and Cinema 4D would be useful</li></ul> Additional informationTo apply please send your CV and examples of your work to&nbsp;the email via the 'Apply' button.This job is based in London. All applicants must hold the legal right to work in the United Kingdom without the need for any further visa-application or immigration process. The Economist Group values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. All applicants are welcome, regardless of ethnicity, national origin, gender, race, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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Closing date: 25th August 2025 at 10amSalary: London Living Wage Are you looking to make your first move into the music industry?Sony Music UK is opening applications for its annual internship program.&nbsp;We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about music and culture to join our vibrant community.Sony Music is career defining. You will be empowered to bring your best as part of a high performing team, shaping what’s next in a way that creates impact. You will start with your fellow interns from across the UK business, allowing you to mobilise your ideas and knowledge, champion positive change and build support systems that will last you a lifetime. Opportunities span across different areas of the business including:<ul><li>Creative</li><li>Marketing</li><li>Finance</li><li>Digital &amp; audience development</li><li>International marketing</li><li>Analytics and more</li></ul> Additional information<ul><li>Successful candidates will start their 12-month internship in January 2026.</li><li>All roles are based in our Kings Cross offices in London and are paid at London Living Wage. </li><li>Applications are open from Monday, August 11th at 10am until Monday, 25th August at 10am.&nbsp;</li></ul>For any further questions please refer to our FAQ’s&nbsp;<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kr7mdKM9ejHBeOEvdTa5wKeIUqsrfOjo/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>. To applyThis is your chance to shape what’s next for Sony Music and beyond.If you are passionate about putting creators first and ready to embark on the next chapter of your music business career, head to the jobs page&nbsp;via the 'Apply' button to find out more on and to apply to your chosen role.We can't wait to see your application! We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.&nbsp;Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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