Breakthrough Traineeship – Workshop and Event 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!

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The role

You will provide support for all teams across the company, but primarily, you will be working alongside the Arts and Training team where the focus will be wider Creative Arts in Digital Media, Training for young people, workshops, events, outreach and engagement.
 

This role will include assisting with: 

1. Workshop & Event Delivery:

• Act as a Workshop Assistant to Resource Productions. Work with the Youth Engagement Slough and Resource Productions teams to plan and deliver Creative Arts and Film based workshops. Be a peer mentor in these settings where young people are the target audience.
• Support co-ordination of all ticketed events and sessions, supporting the Youth and Community Worker and Marketing and Communications Officer. 

2. Administration:

• It is your responsibility to ensure all registers and registrations forms are completed on GoodCRM in a timely manner.
• You will support Event and workshop correspondence with participants before and after.
• You will support the Production and Training teams to carry out a wide range of business admin tasks across the company areas.
• You will also support with any Production Admin concerning any projects and shoots. 

3. Marketing:

• Assist in the promotion of Resource Productions, Youth Engagement Slough, Screen Berkshire and Berkshire Film Office activities through the physical distribution of flyers, attendance at youth, careers and job events and online promotion through social media.
• Manage the collation of job and experience opportunities in the Film and wider Creative Industries. 

4. Resources:

• Keep the office in good working order and ensure all materials and refreshments are tidy, organised, well stocked, operational, and safe. Manage stationary orders and unique workshop resources. 

5. General:

• In addition, you will be required to undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required. 

The role will be based at Resource Productions Main Office in Slough with opportunities to work at other locations in the local area.

Who we are:

Resource Productions are a film and arts production company and training provider. We enable social change through arts and film whilst diversifying the creative industries. 

We work by identifying and nurturing non-traditional artists and filmmakers through outreach and engagement by working with local organisations, providing weekly workshops for young people and providing free quarterly events for aspiring amateur or professional artists, arts leaders across Berkshire and youth and community groups. This then leads to training and development though training workshops, bootcamps and one-to-one support. We’re then able to produce and showcase projects and talent and enable a pipeline into the industry and employment.

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: