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Are you passionate about young people and bettering the prospects for storytellers in film/tv?

We need someone who works brilliantly with young people and alongside a professional team to ensure an exciting and creative environment.

We are looking to recruit a driven individual to assist the industry department at the London Screen Academy (LSA). This unique role requires someone who is a self starter and successful multitasker, they will be required to assist each member of the Industry team (Industry Partnerships Director, the Director of Careers and Alumni and the two Departmental Managers) whilst doing a range of administrative tasks and speaking with students.

This is a permanent full-time role.

Knowledge, skills, experience

• Exceptional organisational skills with a keen eye for detail
• Professional and engaging communicator
• Effective communicator and team player
• Ability to work in a fast-paced busy school environment
• Self starter and problem solver
• Understanding of Safeguarding in regard to Children & Young People
• Have a knowledge and love of film and television and be passionate about all storytelling
• Desire to work with young people
• Commit to our supportive but challenging ethos and culture
• Thrive working in teams but be able to work independently

Desirable

• Excellent computer skills, experience using Google Suite would be beneficial
• Media industry experience
• Experience of working with young people

The role will involve:

• Assisting the industry curriculum manager in the organisation and management of the weekly masterclasses, workshops and classroom drop-ins with professionals from the creative industries
• Liaising with industry professionals to ensure safeguarding and manage the logistical and technical needs prior to an event
• Assisting the industry progression manager with the LSA Mentoring and Work Placement Programmes, including liaison with industry professionals/ organisations and administrating the mentors’ DBS checks on behalf of LSA
• Helping to manage ‘Industry’ trips for students e.g. set visits, studio tours, visits to industry workplaces etc., organising risk assessments, managing completion of NDA’s, journey planning and obtaining parental consents
• Regular use of Zoom online meeting platform, Airtable, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Docs and Canva
• Assisting the LSA Industry staff in directly communicating the work of the department to the LSA community
• Regularly liaising with LSA marketing department to ensure effective communication of industry department ‘offer’ to current and future LSA students and their parents
• Maintaining industry department tracking systems to record student and Industry engagement with LSA activities
• Arranging potentially enriching cultural trips for students e.g. exhibitions and industry events, including journey planning and advance booking of tickets. Log for Industry budget
• Providing administrative support to the Industry team, including managing agenda for departmental meetings, distributing notes from meetings to all members of the team & diary management
• Generic research to support the work of the industry department

About the London Screen Academy (LSA)

LSA is a new sixth form academy for 16-19 year olds in London who have a passion for film and television and the stories they tell. Our current cohort is 640 students and 285 alumni.

At LSA, we do not believe that personal circumstances should ever be a barrier to any young person’s ability to realise their potential and we are committed to ensuring the screen industries become more representative of London’s population.

LSA is unlike any other sixth form. Through its founders and the Industry team, we provide unprecedented access to the screen industries and to its workforces. LSA teaches behind the camera skills covering many screen disciplines. LSA’s founders are a group of internationally acclaimed British producers. They are practising industry leaders who work every day in all areas of the screen industries.

LSA provides an engaging and innovative curriculum of academic study and practical training. We develop students’ talents, skills and attitude preparing them for careers in the screen industries and higher education. Our students leave LSA as well-rounded, confident young adults.

Our teaching and curriculum is project-based and students explore all the key areas of the screen industries. Students also study English, Maths and a cultural enrichment programme so that they are fully equipped to find their way in the world.

We place a strong emphasis on the development of the whole person. Through our pastoral, tutorial and enrichment programmes, we equip our students with the life skills needed to progress in their professional and personal lives. Our students are known well by staff and challenged and supported to realise their potential. And crucially, within our newly refurbished stunning building, LSA is a safe, accepting, diverse and fun place to study.

London Screen Academy embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, hidden or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, or any other category protected by law.​

Start date: ASAP

Closing date: Sunday 5th June 2022

LSA is committed to safeguarding and equality of opportunity and expects all applicants and members of the academy community to share this commitment.

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.