Calling all Bath Spa Uni students : come work with us!

We're excited to be offering a paid internship with FaB, kindly funded by the ‘Bath Spa Works: Third Sector Internship scheme’ for Bath Spa University students.

• Online Publishing & Marketing Internship for Fringe Arts Bath

• Application deadline Tues 5th March 2024.

• 120 hours total

• Pay: £1,000 Employability Award

• Based at The Studio, Bath Spa Uni's coworking space in Bath city centre, with some remote working.

• Apply & read the full profile here: https://mycareer.bathspa.ac.uk/

• NB: this opportunity is only open to current Bath Spa University students

What will you be doing?

We are looking for an intern to join us until June 2024, starting asap. The role will be a mix of remote working and face-to-face, your main duties will be creating and sharing content:

Online:

• Updating our volunteering faq and about web pages

• Posting the festival call-out, the festival and its many events on event & art listing sites

• Updating exhibition web pages after the call-out deadline

• Occasional blog posts

Social media :

• Regular posts promoting the call-outs

• A count-down to the submission deadline

• Scheduling posts to promote the festival itself

• Sharing the festival call-out and the festival itself on relevant pages/groups

Press:

• Writing copy for press releases

• Connecting with local and national press

What you can expect

You will be creating and publishing content to promote Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath's only annual festival of visual arts. You'll have the chance to join the team at Fringe Arts Bath (known as FaB), a non-profit, Artist-led organisation, to learn the ropes and gain critical career experience within a creative and collaborative environment. You will work together with FaB’s existing Arts Producer and occasionally other team members.

During your time with us, you will gain real-world experience working on the business side of the arts sector. With real responsibilities, you’ll be able to place much of what you have learned through your studies into context, through practical application of all that theory. You’ll get a confidence boost from realising you know lots. This is an opportunity to start building your network and we’re committed to your personal and skills development.

If you're relentlessly curious, we want to hear from you.
Sometimes will even have fun doing all this!

Your skills and experience

Desirable:

• An interest in arts & culture

• Enthusiasm for making a difference in the community

• The ability to think outside the box

• Experience of using scheduling platforms eg. Later, Hootsuite or others

• A way with words

Essential:

• An understanding of marketing and social media

• Flexibility, initiative, willingness to contribute ideas

• Proficient use of the English language

• Experience of using social media

• Ideally, you will bring your own laptop, though arrangements can be made if you don't have one.

Length of Internship

120 hours, with a maximum of 15 hours per week.

Exact hours and days will be agreed upon with potential candidates to fit your commitments and needs.

About the Fringe Arts Bath

Fringe Arts Bath (FaB) aims to raise the profile of contemporary visual arts in Bath and beyond, providing early-career and emerging Curators and Artists with a platform for development as well as opportunities to test their ideas beyond the gallery-based arts scene.

FaB facilitates collaborative projects between Curators, Artists, and commissioning bodies throughout the year, runs Fringe Arts Bath Festival every summer, and the annual Bath Open Art Prize in autumn

Huge thanks to Bath Spa University, the Careers team, and The Studio for all their support!