Cultural learning and participation officer Apprentice
ELEVATE COMMUNITY PRODUCTION CIC
HOUNSLOW (TW5 9PD)
Closes in 11 days (Saturday 28 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 16 February 2026
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Summary
Join us to gain hands-on experience supporting creative programmes, developing practical skills in storytelling, events and engagement while contributing to inclusive projects that bring people together and create real impact.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Cultural learning and participation officer (level 3)
- Hours
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Mon to Wed 1:30pm to 9:30pm.
Sat & Sun 10am to 6pm. Shifts TBC.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Sunday 1 March 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Work directly with community members on creative projects including podcasting, filmmaking and digital storytelling.
- Support the delivery of workshops, story circles and intercultural dialogue sessions.
- Assist with studio set-up, equipment preparation and basic technical operation during sessions.
- Carry out community outreach and engagement, recruiting participants and volunteers.
- Represent the organisation at local events, meetings and stakeholder forums.
- Help maintain relationships with partners, community groups and referral organisations.
- Support project administration including scheduling, monitoring attendance and collecting feedback.
- Assist with impact reporting, evaluation data collection and documenting outcomes.
- Contribute to social media content, newsletters and audience engagement activity.
- Help coordinate public showcases, screenings and community events.
- Support progression pathways by helping participants move into volunteering or leadership roles.
- Carry out general operational tasks that contribute to the smooth running of Elevate Studios.
Where you'll work
HIGH STREET
CRANFORD
HOUNSLOW
TW5 9PD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
GATESHEAD COUNCIL
Training course
Cultural learning and participation officer (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Plan, organise and co-ordinate education and community engagement projects on behalf of the organisation, in order to ensure the facilitator (visiting artist or company colleague, freelancer or volunteer) can deliver effectively This could typically include deciding on appropriate content and information including producing event schedules, artist and technical riders, booking artists and practitioners.
- Identify learning objectives of education and community engagement projects and suitability for target audience.
- Work within a set budget, use appropriate resources, venues, systems and technologies to implement the CLP projects ensuring they meet stated objectives and outcomes.
- Ensure projects comply with the organisation’s Health & Safety policies and procedures including Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
- Communicate clearly and effectively, adapting methods both verbal and non-verbal as appropriate to the stakeholder or audience, which may include public speaking and/or using social media and digital communication methods.
- Communicate the CLP projects aims, which may include artistic or cultural outcomes, skills and knowledge development, or a range of social and educational outcomes to audiences, partners and colleagues.
- Produce clear, concise project reports, fundraising applications and other written communications.
- Find and participate in professional networks such as arts and culture networks, meetings and events, performances and exhibitions, training and professional development events and industry membership schemes, in order to benefit the organisation.
- Establish, develop and maintain positive relationships with a wide variety of internal and external partners, artists, colleagues, participants and audiences that result in and/or enable successful projects.
- Build effective professional arts and cultural networks and identify the benefits they bring to the projects and wider organisation.
- Contribute and manage audience/participant/venue bookings and ensure artists/external practitioners are recruited for projects as per the organisation’s policies and procedures, including contracting requirements.
- Maintain artist/external practitioner and audience records as directed, which may include personal information, in-line with employer systems and data protection requirements.
- Have excellent time management skills, demonstrating your ability to be organised, meet deadlines within project timeframes and meet budgets requirements.
- Evaluate projects and use feedback to improve current and/or future activity.
- Provide high quality content, which may be in written or image form, as required, to internal/external communications for example e-bulletins, newsletter content, posters, print and meetings, to aid the promotion of, and engagement with, the organisation’s learning and participation programme.
- Contribute to fundraising activities including desk research on potential funding sources, note taking at audience consultation meetings, compiling data and information.
- Identify problems, generate and form ideas to resolve issues, by thinking creatively in response to challenges and identifying when to seek help and support from others.
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues, creative and cultural professionals and other organisations and partners to achieve project aims and objectives.
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Relationship-builder
- Active listening
- Emotional intelligence
- Professionally Disciplined
Other requirements
Willingness to undertake an enhanced DBS check if required.
Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends for events and community activities.
Comfortable engaging confidently with people from diverse backgrounds, including global majority LGBTQ+ communities and disabled people.
A commitment to inclusive practice, equity and respectful communication at all times.Right to work in the UK.
About this employer
Elevate Community Productions CIC is a rapidly growing narrative change media house dedicated to amplifying the voices of marginalised communities. We operate at the intersection of high-end digital media and social advocacy, creating content that shifts perceptions and builds bridges between the LGBTQ+ community, the global majority, disabled people, and those navigating economic hardship.
Two of our flagship initiatives define our work:
- Elevate Studios: Our main physical and creative project—a high-spec production hub in Hounslow where we co-create high-value digital content, podcasts, and social experiments.
- Queer Global: A specialised project focused on capturing and celebrating the diverse lived experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals on a global scale.
As a social enterprise, our vision is to open hearts, minds and doors across cultures.
By integrating community-led talent with professional production standards, we are redefining how stories are told and who gets to tell them.
After this apprenticeship
Successful completion of this apprenticeship could lead to a permanent role within Elevate Community Productions, such as Community Producer, Participation Coordinator or Project Officer.
Apprentices will develop transferable skills in community engagement, cultural programming, facilitation and creative production, opening pathways into roles across the arts, heritage and community sectors. This may include progression into Level 4+ cultural management qualifications, freelance producing, or leadership roles within grassroots organisations.
For those who demonstrate initiative and impact, there will also be opportunities to move into paid facilitation, project delivery or management positions within our growing studio programme.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
GATESHEAD COUNCIL
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000015735.
Apply now
Closes in 11 days (Saturday 28 February 2026 at 11:59pm)