Equity Jobs
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Equity Jobs
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Vacancies
Full time, permanent (35 hours per week)
Based in Central London head office
Salary on a scale starting at £59,943.15
30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and Christmas office closure
Defined Benefit and Contributory Pension Scheme
Equity recognises Unite as the staff group union
Equity
Equity is the UK trade union for professional performers and creative practitioners. Equity is respected as one of the most powerful entertainment unions in the world, and at the heart of the UK trade union movement. We are a growing union of around 50,000 members, proud of our strong organising and campaigning record. Our members are mostly freelance- with many working in greenfield and emerging areas in audio, videogames, dance and the light entertainment sectors. By contrast, most British TV, film and theatre are made on union agreements with minimum terms driving forward industry standards on everything from pay to dignity at work. The Union has a team of staff in offices across the UK who have a wealth of experience and expertise when it comes to advice and representation. They are able to deal with the issues raised by members working in all areas of the industry whether it be a major feature film, a theatre in education show, radio voice overs, a circus act or any other live or recorded work.
Equity is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all who believe they fit the essential requirements for the job.
The Role
In a newly created post, the Students Officer works under the direction of the Assistant General Secretary for Live Performance and in close collaboration with Officials across the UK to build upon the union’s existing recruitment, organising and campaigning strategies across Performing Arts educational institutions around the UK.
With support from an assistant, the Students Officer is responsible for proactively raising the union’s industrial profile at the start of member’s education and working lives, recruiting and supporting student members through the journey to full membership. They will be able to identify and develop activists through the union’s democratic structures, at all times operating within trade union law and the Union’s own Rules. They provide day-to-day supervision of the Students Assistant.
The Students Officer is to ensure membership and activism of students within Equity and their workplaces as well as build sustainable membership amongst those in education and training. They do not deal with relations between students and their training or educational institutions.
You will have a flexible approach to managing your working hours and although based in the London head office there will be extensive travel required across the UK.
Strong candidates will have experience of mobilising others to take action or have a track record of success in campaigning or organising. To be successful in this role you will have excellent interpersonal and administrative skills, be highly organised, independent, adaptable and flexible. You will be a confident public speaker, be enthusiastic about engaging with students and workers, and will have an ability to inspire others to act collectively to win. You will have an understanding of developing and executing campaign plans, of working in a target driven environment and have experience of using a range of communication tools.
The role requires a commitment to the role and work of trade unions, and Equity’s Vision, Mission and Values.
How to Apply
Please send completed applications and equalities monitoring forms to jobs@equity.org.uk clearly marked as [FULL NAME – STUDENTS OFFICER]. CVs sent in isolation will not be considered and only Word compatible files or PDFs will be accepted.
Job Description and Person Specification
Application Form
Equalities Monitoring Form
The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 28th April 2024.
Interviews are scheduled to be held on Tuesday 7th May 2024 in Central London.
For further information about the role please contact Adam Adnyana (Assistant General Secretary, Live Performance) aadnyana@equity.org.uk
Unfortunately we are unable to provide feedback to all applicants, therefore if you haven’t heard back from us by the advertised interview date your application has been unsuccessful.
Full time, permanent (35 hours per week)
Based in Central London head office
Salary on a scale starting at £40,685.58
30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and Christmas office closure
Defined Benefit and Contributory Pension Scheme
Equity recognises Unite as the staff group union
Equity
Equity is the UK trade union for professional performers and creative practitioners. Equity is respected as one of the most powerful entertainment unions in the world, and at the heart of the UK trade union movement. We are a growing union of around 50,000 members, proud of our strong organising and campaigning record. Our members are mostly freelance- with many working in greenfield and emerging areas in audio, videogames, dance and the light entertainment sectors. By contrast, most British TV, film and theatre are made on union agreements with minimum terms driving forward industry standards on everything from pay to dignity at work. The Union has a team of staff in offices across the UK who have a wealth of experience and expertise when it comes to advice and representation. They are able to deal with the issues raised by members working in all areas of the industry whether it be a major feature film, a theatre in education show, radio voice overs, a circus act or any other live or recorded work.
Equity is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all who believe they fit the essential requirements for the job.
The Role
In a newly created post, the Students Assistant works under the direction of the Assistant General Secretary for Live Performance, with day-to-day supervision from the Students Officer and in collaboration with Officials across the UK to support the union’s recruitment, organising and campaigning strategies across Performing Arts educational institutions around the UK.
You will be responsible for providing administrative support to the Students Officer and relevant Secretariat member as required, with a particular emphasis on the mapping of performing arts educational institutions, coordinating visits, and distribution of student resources. Working with the Students Officer you will identify and develop activists through the union’s democratic structures and support the wider student membership from education through to full membership.
The Students Assistant is to ensure membership and activism of students within Equity and their workplaces as well as build sustainable membership amongst those in education and training. They do not deal with relations between students and their training or educational institutions.
The successful applicant will have good communication skills, both in writing and in person, have the ability to organise events, provide initial advice to members on member benefits, escalate industrial issues, provide some case work support and undertake member-focused activities including visiting training institutions as well as a full range of administrative skills.
The role requires a commitment to the role and work of trade unions, and Equity’s Vision, Mission and Values.
How to Apply
Please send completed applications and equalities monitoring forms to jobs@equity.org.uk clearly marked as [FULL NAME – STUDENTS ASSISTANT]. CVs sent in isolation will not be considered and only Word compatible files or PDFs will be accepted.
Job Description and Person Specification
Application Form
Equalities Monitoring Form
The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 28th April 2024.
Interviews are scheduled to be held on Tuesday 28th May 2024 in Central London.
For further information about the role please contact Adam Adnyana (Assistant General Secretary, Live Performance) aadnyana@equity.org.uk
Unfortunately we are unable to provide feedback to all applicants, therefore if you haven’t heard back from us by the advertised interview date your application has been unsuccessful.
Our Vision, Mission, and Values
This is Equity’s proud statement of the world we want to build. It is this vision which drives our whole reason for being – whether it be organising in our industries, or participation in the worldwide trades union movement.
Equity’s members have been told, at best, that resilience to the industrial and political choices which underpin the arts and entertainment industries is admirable. At worst, they have been told to put up and shut up with the inevitable precarity of working in the industries where we organise. The products of their labour have been treated as luxuries or frivolities instead of serious industries underpinning social and economic progress.
The consequence is low pay, precarity, poor health and safety, harassment, bullying, and a mental health crisis. This is systemic and deep rooted – unlike most closed shop unions in the UK and elsewhere in the world (even in our own industries) we have inherited not a high basic pay, but a low one from the attitudes which prevailed from within the union and the industry. Where most unions achieved a 5 day week in the Edwardian era, the six day basic week remains a feature of most members’ working lives.
For a long time, under the closed shop and beyond, the union was viewed as, and sometimes acted like, a regulator rather than a negotiator. This has the legacy of a confused mixture of pride in Equity agreements, but an association of blame with the union for the persistence of bad terms – rather than the bosses who enforce them. Moreover, the union is often an ‘other’, not an organisation where the membership has ownership of its actions, but an organisation which does things to them.
As a union it is our role to collectively shift members’ consciousness and their organisation to a place where they are actively resisting, in every workplace, attacks on their terms and conditions.
Industrial
All action by staff or activists has a clear and conscious industrial outcome. Equity will always place blame on the bosses, and not attempt to behave like a regulator for poor behaviour within the industry. We will not expect government, funders, regulators, HMRC or other third parties to deliver outcomes, but sincerely believe that our industrial processes have the power to. Industry events, benefits for members, and the union’s democratic structures, must be singularly focused on where the union has power.
Accountable
That members and staff have a shared agenda. Equity’s members are the union, and should be those who drive our demands at work, and deliver the outcomes by their organising and campaigning. Members at work or seeking work steer our industrial agenda from survey to strike.
Collective
To resolve individual problems with collective answers. Every member will be treated with compassion and courtesy. Solutions to problems will always initially be industrial, through our advice or agreements. Legal support will be a secondary option, but used in an activist way to further the collective good. Most contractual, employment, equalities, and other workplace disputes will be dealt with by the union’s staff, following the strategies and using the leverage of Equity’s members.
Aspirational
That staff and activists raise the industrial aspirations of the membership.