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Salary: £27,125 per annumReports to: People operations leadLocation: ManchesterContract: Permanent&nbsp;Job Grade: P3Positions Available: 3 Channel 4 is hiring three proactive and adaptable assistants to join the dynamic People Operations team.&nbsp;The People Team sits at the heart of Channel 4’s success, ensuring we attract, support, and retain the very best talent. We partner closely with the business across our three core areas—Creative, Commercial, and Operations—to enable a high-performing, inclusive, and forward-thinking workplace.As we expand our footprint with the opening of our Manchester office, we are growing our People Team presence in the Nations and Regions to reflect the diversity and reach of our audiences and workforce. Our team is made up of Talent Acquisition, Learning &amp; Development (L&amp;D), People Operations, and People Partners. We work collaboratively across all functions to deliver a people strategy that underpins Channel 4’s Fast Forward strategy—focusing on innovation, development, and engagement.The People Operations &amp; Experience Team are specialists in Operations, Reward, Data, Employee Engagement and People Systems, supporting the wider People Team to ensure that our people are developed and engaged to enable the channel to deliver on its remit and produce award-winning content.You will support the People Team by providing a professional and effective service covering the entire employee cycle from a People Operations perspective. Providing first line support to our employees and line managers. Maintenance of our HR system (called 4People) and employee data whilst ensuring our data is accurate for our managers, leaders, employees and outsourced suppliers. Key responsibilities<ul><li>First point of contact for employees and managers providing query resolution and/or appropriate direction to achieve the employee outcome and drive a positive employee experience.</li><li>Ensure that all People data is accurate and up to date which includes auditing our data to ensure it is up to date and correct, setting up new joiners, updating leaver details and assisting line managers with managing employee changes through the HR system.</li><li>Produce reports, keeping an eye on our data accuracy and ensuring that we are up to date with key dates such as Fixed Term Contract expiry dates, probation end dates, insights into our operational data, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and acting up dates.</li><li>Supporting the People Team on a variety of strategic ad-hoc projects to ensure operational excellence and effectiveness is upheld whilst keeping up to date with what our stakeholders require.</li><li>Work with payroll, freelancer and benefit providers to champion good working practices ensuring data is processed in a timely and accurate manner and communicated back to key stakeholders whilst upholding attention to detail during cyclical freelancer onboarding and salary processes through our systems.</li><li>Work across the people team supporting the specialists and People Business partners in managing administrative processes for cyclical employee activities along with People related projects working with key internal and external stakeholders. This includes and is not limited to induction, training and first stages of resolving employee concerns, annual pay review and annual variable bonus.</li><li>Collaborating with the team to prepare and execute a variety of different creative events and talks for our internal initiatives enhancing employee knowledge. Including virtual and in-person roadshows, FAQ sessions with our managers and F2F sessions with our employee population.</li><li>Champion diversity and inclusion in all aspects of People activity, upholding the Employee Experience message whilst maintaining C4’s diversity remit.&nbsp;</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>Good working knowledge of HR Processes and administration</li><li>Proven experience of working as an HR Assistant / Administrator</li><li>Previous in practice experience</li><li>Experience of managing a busy and varied workload where you are required to make judgements on prioritisation</li><li>Experience of managing data, producing reports or providing analysis - this does not need to be related to HR</li><li>Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability/confidence to communicate at all levels</li><li>Strong team ethic with the ability to work independently</li><li>Calm under pressure and provide a sense of stability to stakeholders and customers</li><li>Comfortable with ambiguity/change adapting well to changing conditions and new ways of thinking</li><li>Understands the confidential nature of the work and can adhere to Channel 4’s information security and GDPR requirements</li><li>Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy</li><li>Advanced skills and experience in using Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>Sage People/People Systems experience</li><li>CIPD or HR Qualification</li></ul> 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.&nbsp;

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Salary: £32,000 per annum Are you someone who loves theatre, has a great knowledge of actors, and wants to work in an exciting and creative organisation?&nbsp;The Donmar Warehouse is seeking a Casting Associate to work with the Casting Director as part of the In house casting team, they will ensure the department runs smoothly and efficiently. The role will work closely with the Casting Director delivering high class casting across Donmar productions, readings and workshops. It's a role with lots of variety that includes the creation of lists, artist and production research, leading communication with agents, preparing and running audition days and leading on casting workshops and readings. We are looking for someone with at least two years experience working in casting. We need someone who has an extensive knowledge of actors, a confident communicator and loves the theatre. Responsibilities<ul><li>Working with the Casting Director to provide strong and consistent casting support across Donmar Warehouse productions. </li><li>Being the point of contact for all casting enquiries and overseeing and delivering the administration functions of the department. </li><li>Leading&nbsp; availability checks with agents and nurturing strong relationships with agents on behalf of the Donmar. </li><li>Deliver casting requirements in the deadlines stipulated by the Casting Director and Artistic team.</li><li>Contributing casting ideas and creation of lists&nbsp; across projects and readings as required, supported by the Casting Director.</li><li>Leading the planning and management of&nbsp; auditions to ensure they run with success. This includes the preparation of materials for meetings,&nbsp; artists and agent liaison, and managing schedules and spaces for auditions.</li><li>Planning and facilitating zoom meetings and online taping as needed.</li><li>Creation and deal memo’s, access riders and contracts, including the processing of invoices as required. </li><li>Working with the Artistic&nbsp; team to plan for readings and workshops. </li><li>Build a strong and supportive environment for all actors and companies in our buildings, attending previews and press nights. </li><li>Leading on communication with different departments within the company, ensuring casting information is shared and updated as required. Including the creation of casting sheets for productions. </li><li>Attendance of show cases and industry events, representing the Casting department.</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>At least two years experience of working in a professional casting environment, this could be in theatre, TV, film.</li><li>A commitment to forging a career in the Casting industry.</li><li>Extensive knowledge of actors across the breath of the industry.</li><li>Good problem-solver and a confident decision maker who is able to establish the best solutions under pressure. </li><li>Experience of attending showcases and performances being able to confidently identify talent.</li><li>Strong knowledge and relationships with UK and US agencies. </li><li>Experience in negotiating deals with agents, and drafting deal memos and contracts for actors. </li><li>Great initiative and ability to organise a large and demanding workload.</li><li>Ability to work under time pressure and capacity to stick to deadlines.</li><li>Excellent administrative and IT skills</li><li>A confident communicator, with experience dealing with large quantities of emails and telephone calls. </li><li>Able to show a commitment to inclusion and diversity in your working practice.</li><li>A passion for theatre and the work of the Donmar. </li><li>Working knowledge of theatre departments and their interaction with Casting Departments.&nbsp;</li></ul>Desirable&nbsp;<ul><li>Has successfully cast a professional theatre production as Casting Director.</li><li>Fantastic knowledge of plays, playwrights, directors and agents. </li><li>Experience working directly with directors and playwrights.</li><li>Experience of working with union and in house agreements. </li><li>Experience of working in a producing venue and understanding of programming processes.&nbsp;</li></ul> We believe that representation matters; diversity of identity, of perspective and of lived experience enriches our work and our lives. We recognise that the Donmar and the wider theatre industry is not representative of contemporary society in terms of workforce, artists and audience. We particularly encourage applications from those who are currently under-represented both at the Donmar and more widely in the industry, and specifically from D/deaf or disabled, or neurodivergent applicants and applicants who experience barriers and inequity due to ethnicity, gender identity and/or socio-economic background.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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