Freelance Event Assistants (multiple roles)

Artswork is creating a team of event assistants to support our work in Arun, Dover, Gosport, on the Isle of Wight, the New Forest, Rushmoor and Slough. This work is part of our Young Cultural Changemakers programme which organises a wide variety of creative workshops designed to explore children and young people’s ideas and trains them in leading their own creative and cultural projects. 

Role description

The role is for locally based Event Assistants over the age of 18 who would like to build their practice and experience in supporting events with young people. It involves working alongside an experienced producer and with artists to deliver occasional workshops with groups of young people who may be aged from 5 up to 19 years old. 

The work will involve: 

• Practical support for event set ups and pack downs
• Interacting with and supporting participants to engage in the activities
• Collecting information and taking photos /​reels for our evaluations
• Assisting in the smooth running of different kinds of creative workshops

How it works

Artswork will provide an induction that will take approximately 1 day in total and will be paid. This will introduce the programme, event aims, role, and compulsory safeguarding training.

Once you have completed the training, you will be able to sign up to upcoming events using our Google Calendar, according to your availability and interests. 

Please note, online training sessions for the role will happen over Zoom on Wednesday 27 August OR Monday 22 September from 10am – 1pm and you will need to be available for one of these dates.

How to apply

Please download the full role description to understand all details of the roles available.

We then ask you to send a copy of your CV and a short expression of interest explaining your interest in and suitability for the role to the producer for your selected place. Contact details can be found in the document.