STAGE DOOR

• Gain essential skills, for example in administration, marketing and theatre events production

• Work alongside experienced staff

• Earn the London Living Wage for those with refugee status or be paid expenses to volunteer for those currently without the right to work

• Meet new people and gain experience of working in an office

• Encouraged to create and lead on a project, with the support of Good Chance staff or our partners

You will work approximately 2-3 days per week for 3-6 months.

The Good Chance office is based in Shoreditch in London but our projects happen all over the country. If you are based in the Greater London area it would be easy for you to be able to work in the Good Chance office, but if you are based outside London we would still encourage you to apply as we would try to make it possible for you to come to the office regularly as well as doing some work from home.

We also work with partners across the country to host Stage Door placements.

The paid traineeship is particularly aimed at people from refugee backgrounds at the early stages of their careers.

If you do not have the right to work, we still encourage you to apply, and we can discuss how the placement could work for you as a volunteer role.

Eligibility for the core Stage Door programme with Good Chance isn’t based on having specific experience in theatre, the creative industry or with a charity. Instead, you’ll need to prove a commitment to learning, being a team player and ready to get involved with different tasks and activities.

Some of the placements we offer on projects or with partners will need some previous experience, depending on the department and role.

Good Chance pays the local living wage to those with the right to work. At the end of each month, Stage Door participants will need to invoice the company, which we can help you do. You can read more about the living wage here.

We ask that all applications to the Stage Door programme are available to work part time at a minimum of two and maximum of three full working days per week. We will operate a flexible working schedule, so the days you work are dependent on your schedule and when you are free.

We require you to be at a level where you can express what you mean clearly in written and verbal English and to be able to conduct searches on engines like Google as well as a basic knowledge of software like Microsoft Excel and Word.

We will review the information you kindly sent us and will get back to you within a week after the application deadline. If your application is successful, the next step will be to invite you to a Zoom call interview with two of our team members.

Of course! If we say no the first time, it might be because we’ve had a lot of applicants, but we’d love to keep your details on our system and contact you again before the next placement.

Please get in touch! Email hannah@goodchance.org.uk to show your interest and we’ll reach out as soon as applications open again.

If you work with people from refugee backgrounds that you think would be interested in applying, please do share the Stage Door Information poster with them. If they would like to know more about the programme and how to apply please ask them to get in touch with Hannah at hannah@goodchance.org.uk.