SharpFutures

Earlier this month nineteen trainees from West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester graduated from @Channel4’s Content Creatives Scheme, ran by @channel4skills, at a special event in Leeds. The trainees showcased their work and spoke about the highlights of their experience to a room full of industry professionals, before networking and taking part in some well-deserved celebrations. The Channel 4 team caught up with some of the scheme’s partners and trainees, as well as training provider @SharpFutures - watch the video to hear what they had to say! 📹 Video production credit - Matt Radcliffe

Ahead of @neurodiversityweek which starts on Monday March 17th @mayorofgm Andy Burnham has given his support - watch the video to find out more. Thank you to Dr Shirley Woods-Gallagher, Executive Director of Leadership, Health & Care at New Bridge Group for sharing this video with us. We’re proud to support New Bridge Group with our ongoing work placement programme for their Diversity Pathways students and great to see Andy Burnham celebrating neurodivergent people of working age in Greater Manchester @nightmayor2024 @greatermcr #NewBridgeAcademy #neurodiversityweek

Via @channel4skills 👇 Last week we launched our Content Creatives Scheme! 🥳 Watch here to get a glimpse of what the day looked like and to hear what some of our amazing trainees had to say ! Best of luck to all of the trainees on the scheme this year, we can’t wait to see all the exciting things you’ll be getting involved in ! 😁

We’re excited to begin our training delivery this month to the latest trainees on this year’s @channel4 x @sharpfutures ‘Content Creatives’ course 🙌 Content Creatives is a paid training and placement opportunity in West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester, offering the chance to kickstart a career in creative digital media. We’ll be sharing highlights of the course over the next few weeks & months as the trainees learn a wide range of creative, digital & workplace ready skills 🎥 💻 🎤 🎧 @channel4skills

We recently worked with Reform Radio as part of their ‘Skills Bootcamp - Video Production’ project in which we wrote a creative brief and invited a group of trainees to pitch their ideas then create a short film in response. We asked the group, Yasser, Christopher and Hei, to come to @thesharpproject to film one of our SharpFutures Discover sessions in which a local Manchester school visit the site to find out more about careers in the creative digital sector, led by our Education Lead Thalaya and supported by #SharpFuturesPOD member Esther. In advance of the shoot day Yasser, Christopher and Hei learnt about production techniques, storyboarding and kit set up with Nick Wood from Koolstof and the Reform Radio team. At the initial pitch session we talked about the challenges of planning shoot days and how to best to prepare for the challenges of quick turnaround jobs to which the group responded by planning expertly, especially considering it was the first time they had worked on such a project. On the day of the shoot the group arrived early and set up but did face a big challenge in that the school unfortunately had to cancel their visit at the last minute - Yasser, Christopher and Hei responded brilliantly by rearranging their shoot plan and being calm and collected under pressure. The final video they completed, in just a few days after the shoot, is below and we think it is brilliant, featuring great interviews with Thalaya & Esther and some excellent shots of our education space and around The Sharp Project, plus a couple of stand in’s for the tour footage - thank you Fatima & Morgan! Great work by the group and we really enjoyed being a part of the project. Yasser, Christopher and Hei are now applying for #SharpFuturesPOD and we look forward to working with them again in the future. This training has been made possible thanks to Greater Manchester Combined Authority securing funding to deliver Skills Bootcamps, which form part of the Government’

We are looking for a Customer Service Apprentice to join our Front of House team at The Sharp Project. The Apprentice Receptionist will be completing a Level 2 Customer Service certificate. Supporting the Front Of House Team at The Sharp Project and also providing ad-hoc support on events attended by or run by SharpFutures. This role would include working with a wide range of customers to provide a high-quality service, which may be face-to-face, by phone or email. Primary working location: The Sharp Project, M40 5BJ Hours: 35 hours p/w (e.g 9:00am- 17:00pm) Training will be provided for all listed duties by The Sharp Project & the SharpFutures Team. With complementary learning from the Apprentice Training Provider. Key Responsibilities: * Provide excellent customer service in our front of house reception team for tenants, production teams and general visitors. * Ensure that administration supporting the service function is both timely and accurate with systems to support this. * Manage daily telephone, written and in-person enquiries from clients, visitors and management team with efficiency, flexibility and professionalism. * Manage the Front of House Outlook email inbox; ensuring that all queries are resolved quickly and efficiently, and that all processes are followed. * Ensure that post, deliveries, parking passes, site security, communications and related activities are managed according to building requirements. * Related activities are likely to include basic cleaning/tidying of office & community spaces, moving furniture etc. * You will also provide ad-hoc support on events attended by or run by Sharpfutures training and agency teams with members of the public, trainees and staff. To apply now click the link in our biog 👆🔗 @thesharpproject

On June 11th & 12th we are hosting a two day creative digital bootcamp for students of @officialuom via their @uomcareers service 🙌 If you are a student at the University Of Manchester & would like to develop your creative digital skills then you can sign up for free via the CareerConnect website - link in our biog 📱🎥🎧📸

@channel4skills ‘Content Creative’ Lili is currently on her paid work placement with @thebehavioursagency and has made this ‘A Day In My Life’ video about her working day, detailing her commute, client work, content creation & lunch! Thank you for creating @skewwhiff 📱🙌