£11.44 per hour + £1.38 holiday pay
Advertising End Date
02 Mar 2025

Role & Department Overview

Please note: This internship is only available to current students registered on a degree scheme in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster University.  If you apply for this role the information within your application will be shared with the recruiting organisation.

Feather Tree Arts are developing a brand new format of social entertainment; merging artificial reality, game engines and social media with traditional community storytelling. They aim to use this format to explore ideas of diversity and mental health, to help everyone learn alongside characters. This project is called Creative Community Establish & Grow.

With their government-funded prototype nearing completion, they’re entering an exciting new phase of their business development plan – and they want you to be part of it!  As an intern, you’ll play a key role in:
 
  • Building a vibrant community to test the prototype.
  • Designing and leading creative storytelling performance challenges to keep our community engaged and inspired.
  • Capturing and documenting valuable insights to guide our app development and production design.
  • Developing and promoting Kickstarter (and other crowd-funding) campaigns to support our growth.
  • Inputting into grant applications.

This is a fantastic opportunity to get hands-on experience in an innovative, creative environment while making a real impact on society too.  In total this is a 70-hour internship.

Please submit a CV (maximum of two sides) and a Cover Letter (maximum one side) both tailored to the role. 


Interview Date: 25 March 2025

Start Date: 28 March 2025 or thereafter (flexible)

End Date: 8 June 2025 or thereafter depending on the agreed start date

Working Hours / Pattern: 7 hours a week for 10 weeks (this internship is 70-hours in total). Remote working.
 
Location: Entirely remotely (in the UK)

Job Description

Main Duties:

Collaborative Responsibilities
 
  • Work with the team to develop storytelling/creative challenge ideas.
  • Grow the community.
  • Help us plan how to capture and use feedback.
  • Create Kickstarter campaigns.
  • Writing scenes for our flagship launch performance.
 
Self-Led Responsibilities:
 
  •  Keep the community engaged and excited through regular updates, activities, and running the creative challenges.
  • Create some storytelling/creative challenges for the community.
  • Collect, understand, and organise feedback to improve the app and production design, and enhance funding applications.
  • Promote Kickstarter campaigns through the community, encouraging a network of networks to boost engagement and donation potential.

Person Specification

Skills Required:
 
  • Keep the community engaged and excited through regular updates, activities, and running the creative challenges.
  • Create some storytelling/creative challenges for the community.
  • Collect, understand, and organise feedback to improve the app and production design, and enhance funding applications.
  • Promote Kickstarter campaigns through the community, encouraging a network of networks to boost engagement and donation potential.
 

Working in this role will help develop the following skills and experience:

 
  • Business Development
  • Collaboration
  • Commercial Awareness
  • Creativity
  • Curiosity
  • Entrepreneurial Skills
 
For further information please email [email protected]
 
 

 

 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

You are required to submit a cover letter to support your application. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

 

Please note: Unless specified otherwise in the advert wording, this role is only open to individuals living in the UK.

Under the terms of this work, we endeavour to provide the advertised number of hours however, hours are not guaranteed and that work may cease if there is a fall in demand. 

Adverts that display a closing date should be treated as a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

Help and advice on making applications can be found on the Lancaster University Careers pages. Visit www.lancaster.ac.uk/careers.