Breakthrough Traineeship – Marketing Assistant, Eastbourne
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!
Read more about Breakthrough here:
The role
Supporting the Dabbble team with marketing activities in person and online.
This role will include assisting with the:
- capturing of data via photography and filming
- carrying out of interviews, polls and surveys
- editing and publishing of online content for Instagram, Discord and Tiktok
- editing and creating of flyers, posters and resources for activities
- delivering workshops and events
The role will be based at offices in Eastbourne, with events delivered across Sussex, typically 2⁄3 days in the office, 1 day at home
About the employer
Who we are: Adventures + Wisdom Institute (AWi) is a social enterprise focused on creative and economic agency for people in transition, operating across Sussex and the wider South-East of England.
Our Purpose We design and steward intergenerational creative conditions in which capability emerges, identities form, and people making transitions, particularly young people and those moving between employment modalities, grow into creative and economic agency.
Our Vision A world in which creative practice is recognised as a serious capability, and in which the conditions for that capability are available to everyone, regardless of background or starting point.
Our Mission To create the conditions, structured, joyful, and intergenerational, in which people discover they are creative practitioners, innovators, and agents, and in which that discovery compounds over time.
Deadline for applications
The deadline is 11:45pm, on 27 July 2026
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 28 September 2026
- Have the right to work in the UK
- Available to start work on the 28 September 2026 and available for the duration of the placement (until 28th March 2027)
- 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
Please note that this programme is not suitable for those on a degree placement year or an MA programme.
Download the full job description
This contains more information about the role, including advice from the employer.
Breakthrough 2026 Application Form
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.
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Please do. You will need to submit an application for each role you are interested in and should check that the travel to the workplace is realistic for you before applying.