Experience Opportunity

PROPEL: Assistant Producer Placement with Bradford 2025 and the Turner Prize

PROPEL is our 40-day paid work placement programme for early-career creatives working in producing, production and programming.

PROPEL has connected emerging talent with top festivals, theatres, and performance companies across the North for over two years. For 2025, we’ve partnered with some exciting new hosts in Bradford and West Yorkshire, offering five hands-on paid placements in production, producing, and programming.

We’re excited to have partnered with Bradford 2025 to offer an early-career Bradford producer a 40-day placement working as an Assistant Producer on the Turner Prize as it comes to Bradford in autumn 2025.

Through this placement, you will:

  • Be paid £150 per day for 40 days of work – that’s £6,000 in total
  • Gain hands-on experience working with professional producers to deliver high-quality events
  • Have access to additional support and mentoring through Bradford Producing Hub
Requirements

For early-career producers

You are eligible for the PROPEL work placement programme if:

• You have a demonstrable connection to Bradford
• You will be 18 years old or over when the placement starts
• You are committed to pursuing a career in producing
• You are proactive and eager to learn and make the most of this opportunity
• You are ready to get involved and get hands-on as part of the host organisation’s team
• You are organised with your time and able to follow instructions
• You have good admin skills and can use email, Microsoft Word and Excel
• You can fully commit to this opportunity and are available for the key dates listed on the host page (if you can do the majority, but there are a couple of dates that you can’t do, please speak to us as there may be some flexibility in these cases)

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