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Trainee Communications and Digital Assistant, Towner Eastbourne

  •  South East
  •  Under £10K (pro rata)
  •  Part time
  •  Closes July 27, 2026
  •  Liz Corkhill
  •  liz.corkhill@townereastbourne.org.uk
  • #Visual arts
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Description

Job Summary

Towner Eastbourne is offering two paid, six-month Breakthrough placements in partnership with Artswork, designed for young people aged 18 to 25 who are looking for a first step into the creative industries. These roles offer the chance to gain practical experience and develop transferable skills.

Job Description

This placement is an opportunity to understand and contribute to Towner team, supporting both visitor-facing activity and behind-the-scenes digital communications. Working with Towner's Visitor Services and Marketing & Communications teams, the successful applicant will develop experience in public-facing gallery work, website administration, accessible copywriting, digital archiving and content preparation.

The role will begin with training alongside Visitor Services, supporting visitors to have a memorable experience of Towner, before moving into regular work with the Marketing & Communications team. Digital tasks will focus on gathering, filing and tidying content from Towner's current website, preparing web page copy and images, sourcing and resizing images and logos, learning image crediting procedures, proof-reading and editing copy, and contributing to the development of Towner's new website and refreshed brand.

This is a part time role (4 days per week) at £12.71 per hour. More information can be found in the Job Information Pack.

Job Requirements

We are looking for a trainee who is:

- Able to demonstrate high levels of literacy and written communication skills
- Able to accept constructive feedback and adapt their writing style
- Confident communicating with a broad range of people
- Enthusiastic, able to manage your own workload and work within a team
- Comfortable working on more than one project at a time
- Comfortable using basic digital tools - Outlook, Word and Excel .

It is desirable that candidates have:

- An interest in the arts/visual arts as a career going forwards
- A connection to Eastbourne, or are local to Eastbourne
- Some previous experience working with the public
- Experience using Canva Pro or Adobe Creative Suite

Job Responsibilities

You will develop a broad range of skills covering gallery operations and public facing work with our Front of House Team, alongside digital communications, administration and archiving of our website.

After initially training with our Visitor Services team you will join the team for regular shifts each week begore begin work on digital administration and contributing to the work of our Marketing Team.

The digital aspect of this role will focus on digital administration and archiving as part of a large project to launch a new website and refreshed brand incorporating our forthcoming second site. There will also be opportunities to feed into and shape this major digital project.

A full overview can be found in the Information Pack.

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