The HETV Skills Fund is looking for a training provider who can design and run a programme for HETV: building your portfolio.
The training programme should consist of online and face-to-face training from a training provider who will help participants build their skills and market themselves as an individual to bridge into working in HETV. The training provider will support participants to develop their skills in career development - building networks, marketing themselves in the industry and building a portfolio to work in HETV.
The training provider should demonstrate connections to UK-wide broadcasters with two significant TV production hubs to work with the local broadcasters to promote this opportunity to its workforce gaining further outreach.
Who can apply?
We are welcoming applications from training providers who have a proven track record of delivering successful industry-standard training projects.
The provider will need to demonstrate their understanding of high-end TV training requirements, including the diversity challenges facing the industry and must clearly demonstrate that they have the resources to track the career progression of participants beyond the life of the programme.
ScreenSkills particularly welcomes applications from providers based across the whole of the UK including partnerships between organisations and or in partnership with freelancers who have had a career in Unscripted, Children’s or HETV.
Training providers must:
- demonstrate evidence of appropriate, recent engagement with the industry in the design and delivery of the programme
- meet critical diversity targets as outlined in this tender, including:
- making reasonable adjustments to the training (whether face-to-face, content or online) to ensure that it is accessible to a diverse audience,
- having an equality policy in place as an employer,
- having a monitoring system in place to track the diversity of the delegates, see this guide,
- providing diversity and inclusivity training to facilitators – (see free ACAS online training),
- gather long-term destination data from the delegates to prove impact of training utilising the ScreenSkills monitoring questionnaire,
- develop a clear structure for the training, ensuring that it is outcome focused.
Key requirements
The training provider must design, manage, market, recruit and deliver training for 20/30 professionals split across two production hubs currently working in the industry who want to understand how they can bridge into HETV.
The training will be targeted at individuals who currently work within the television or film industry but who are not working within HETV.
The emphasis of the training should cover all the key responsibilities of building your portfolio and include:
- How to build your portfolio for working in HETV
- How to identify and understand your key offering within your work
- How to successfully sell yourself for your career
- Provide useful skills for networking and marketing yourself in HETV
The HETV Skills Fund is interested in hearing from training providers about how this programme can be best delivered to reach a wide audience and what kind of training would be most effective to support professionals in bridging into HETV. You will be asked in your application to namecheck broadcasters and two hubs for outreach of the training.
Participant targets
The training should be a minimum of 2x one-hour online sessions and one-hour face-to-face sessions in networking and presenting for 20/30 people. The training should also include one-to-one in-person sessions to showcase their development of pitching themselves to the training provider and departmental hirers.
Outcomes of the training
The participants will have gained soft skills and obtained knowledge from the training provider about building their portfolio for working in HETV and broadened their skills for marketing themselves for wider job opportunities in the industry. Participants will have also completed relevant ScreenSkills online e-learning modules to help progress their performance in their careers.
Diversity and Inclusion
In addition to the requirements above, the programme must follow ScreenSkills’ diversity targets:
- 50% Woman
- 20% Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups
- 10% Disabled
- 10% LGBT
ScreenSkills aims to go beyond legal diversity requirements and considers additional measures of inclusivity, including:
- employment status
- whether a person is returning to work following leave
- geographical location (including representation of nations and regions)
- socio-economic background.
Providing access to diverse crew and talent is key to our delivery objectives. All trainers and companies delivering programmes that are funded by the High-end TV Skills Fund must meet the identified diversity requirements and will need to demonstrate how they plan to reach these targets at the start-up meeting. If a training provider is struggling to meet their diversity and inclusion targets during recruitment, this must be communicated in writing in order to agree to any revised targets. If any targets have not been achieved at the end of the programme, training providers must show robust evidence of why a target has not been met. Failure to do so will put the project at risk of loss of funding.
We require all Skills Fund-funded programme participants to set up a ScreenSkills profile via our website which allows us to gather data and track beneficiaries. Participants must complete their profile and diversity data before the training begins.
How to apply
Provide a one-page document outlining the key aspects of the delivery plan, how the key requirements of the training sessions will be met, information about the company and the providers capacity to deliver the programme.
We are looking for bids up to £30,000
Deadlines
All expressions of interest should be sent directly to High End TV Project Manager Emily Gunn via the 'register interest' button below by 25 November 2022. This training will run from January 2023.
If you are successful in being shortlisted, you will be required to submit an online application form and a budget. Applicants will be notified of a decision by Friday 30 November 2022
To download the PDF version of the pitch click here.
