Breakthrough Traineeship – Project Assistant, Slough

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

We are looking for a local, enthusiastic person ideally looking for a future career or just passionate about museums. An interest in arts, heritage, marketing, volunteers, school learning, youth projects or any general projects in the cultural sector would be beneficial. The role includes support with current museum collection projects, events, engagement activities with different communities, administrational tasks, digital content and design development, marketing and social media as required.

At the Museum you will work with the Museum Manager and volunteers primarily. At times with learning staff, collections staff or trustees as projects require it. We also meet on occasion with charities, cultural organisations, freelancers, artist and creatives, communities and schools. You will be expected to attend a meeting which brings teams across Slough together on a Wednesday evening every couple of months.

This role will include: 

• Learning about Slough Museum Collection, how to handle a collection and how to update the collections database if needed. 
• Administrational tasks including emails, database creation, fundraising, basic interpretation tasks 
• Supporting with engagement or facilitated projects with different communities of people across Slough. 
• Developing and creating content about projects to share through digital channels including producing our newsletters. 
• Designing flyers and information or interpretation in canva as needed 
• Supporting the development of new museum projects , for example: creating cultural career pathways, learning, education and working with schools. 

The role will be based at Slough Museum and also involve some home working. On the odd occasion you will go to other venues across Slough for meetings and engagement activities to places such as The Curve, Slough or to a school. 

A driver with weekly car access could be useful, or someone who is confident and willing to use public transport from their home to get to Slough Trading Estate, 72 Buckingham Avenue, SL1 4PN where the Slough Museum is located. 

Who we are:

Our Mission:

We build a sense of pride in Slough. We develop imaginative and inclusive programming and displays, and encourage people to share their stories and knowledge of Slough as a place of pioneers and innovators.

We are the only organisation in Slough that has a remit to collect, conserve and communicate the town’s Heritage. We explore and celebrate Slough’s past, present and future. 

What we want to do:

Giving people a reason to fall in love with Slough. 

Our Purpose:

We share a vision of building community cohesion. 

We aim to develop a sense that, with all of Slough’s ethnic and socioeconomic diversity, we are one community. We will do this by developing and using our collections to engage and enthuse. 

Our core values: 

• We welcome and value Input from across the community – always striving to enhance community cohesion 
• We believe in taking a Pioneering approach to developing and running the museum, in keeping with the pioneering nature of Slough itself 
• We are passionate about Discovering, Preserving and Sharing the story of Slough & District and its rich heritage 

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: