Festival Assistant Programme

Salary: Unpaid

Every year Doc/Fest recruit a number of Festival Assistants to assist the team with preparations for the next Festival and the various year-round projects they coordinate. They are looking for enthusiastic individuals to join the team from January to March 2018. It’s a wonderful chance to gain professional office experience which will include taking and transferring calls and queries, taking minutes in team meetings and working with various departments within the Doc/Fest team.

This is a great opportunity to work closely with the team to gain valuable professional office-based experience. You will be based in our Sheffield office and your typical duties might include: research tasks, maintaining databases, updating copy on the website and social networks, processing film submissions, and office runner tasks.

These positions are unpaid internships which last for three month periods with a minimum commitment of two days a week. The office hours are 9:30am – 5:30pm, Monday to Friday.

The 2018 Festival Assistant blocks run from:
8 January to 30 March
2 April to 29 June
2 July to 28 September
1 October to 21 December

The deadline for application to the April to June block is 9:00am on Monday 5 March, 2018.

For more information and to apply please visit https://www.sheffdocfest.com/view/festivalassistantprogramme

The closing date for this position is 05/03/2018 at 09:00