Breakthrough Traineeship – Assistant Producer, Southampton
About Breakthrough
Breakthrough is a 6‑month employability programme designed as a stepping stone to get you workplace experience and all-important employment skills. This short placement gives you insight into a future career in the Creative Industry, supporting your confidence and professionalism in the workplace, and helping you to break through into a career that matters to you!
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The role
Working closely with ArtfulScribe’s directors, the Assistant Producer will support ArtfulScribe’s programme of live events and activities, particularly Play on Words, the New Forest’s Literature Festival, and ArtfulScribe’s LitFest in Southampton. The successful candidate will take a hands on role with assisting event planning and delivery, administration, marketing and communications.
This role will include assisting with:
- Day to day administration and communications in the ArtfulScribe office
- Coordinating workshops and live events and liaising with venues and artists for Play on Words, the New Forest’s Literature Festival, and ArtfulScribe’s LitFest in Southampton
- Collating evaluation data
- Setting up events, ticketing, evaluation forms and mail outs
- Creating newsletters and social media content
There may also be the potential to directly assist workshop facilitation, depending on the candidate’s skills and interests.
About the employer
ArtfulScribe is a Solent-based literature development agency, delivering a wide and varied programme of classes, workshops, events and engagement activities for children, young people and adults, alongside professional skills development for writers.
At ArtfulScribe we believe in the power of literature to make meaningful change in people’s lives, creating a sense of community, building confidence and resilience, and improving well-being. We increase literacy and nurture enjoyment of reading, writing and storytelling in young people. We empower marginalised voices in our local communities through projects that foster greater understanding of specific groups and celebrate differences. We aim to support the articulation of, and share stories and writing focused on, creating a better world, calling for action and encouraging hope on themes such as climate change, place-making, equity and inclusion.
We are a community interest company and have a small and friendly core team based at Mayflower Studios in Southampton, working with a wide range of associate writers and facilitators and supported by our expert Advisory Group.
Deadline for applications
The deadline is 11:45pm, on 17 August
You will need to download the job description below and read it carefully, and review the eligibility criteria below to ensure you are able to apply.
You then need to fill out the form below to submit your application.
All of the job descriptions include an “Employers advice” section and we strongly recommend that you tailor your answers to ensure they cover that advice given for the specific role you are applying for.
You can apply for more than one role if you wish to, but you will need to submit separate applications using the same process.
We strongly suggest that you research travel options for the role before applying to ensure travel is feasible.
To be eligible to apply for a Breakthrough traineeship, applicants must:
- Be aged 18-25 on the 29th September 2025
- Have the right to work in the UK
- Available to start work on the 29th September 2025 and available for the duration of the placement (until 28th March 2026)
- Have no or little (less than one month) previous experience of working in an arts, creative or voluntary sector organisation
In addition to the above, applicants should also meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Currently not in employment, education or training (NEET)
- Be disabled and/or Neurodivergent
- Have current or prior mental health issues
- Have experienced racism, homophobic or transgender discrimination
- Be a recent school or college leaver (A level or equivalent)
- Are struggling to find work due to lack of employment or training experience
Download the full job description
This contains more information about the role, including advice from the employer.
Breakthrough 2025 Application Form
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Contact us
If you are unsure if you are eligible, have any other questions, or need information in a different format, please email our Careers team:
FAQs
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If you have applied for a Breakthrough placement in a previous year and been unsuccessful, then yes you are very welcome to apply again if you meet this years eligibility criteria!
If you have already successfully undertaken a Breakthrough placement before, you won't be eligible to apply again.