Current placement opportunities

The following placement opportunities are currently accepting applications from OOC DTP students

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Location: Brighton but remote work is possible, with the need to occasionally attend in person meetings/events

Website: www.currentpr.co.uk 

Duration: May-July

Deadline for Expressions of Interest: Friday 24th March 2023, noon

To apply, please email training@oocdtp.ac.uk with a CV and a short letter detailing your interest in this opportunity, by Friday 24th March 2023, noon. Please do not hesitate to contact the same e-mail, If you have any questions or would like to find out more about the placement.

Placement Description

Current PR is offering a three month placement for The London to Paris Electric Vehicle Rally 2023, including promotional events and press days leading up to it. The successful candidate will be involved in planning and social media campaigns for this international event. On a day-to-day basis they will handle sponsor communication, including zoom calls, e-mails, and social media. Alongside communicating with sponsors/potential sponsors, they will be preparing proposals, PowerPoint decks and press releases. In person attendance of some meetings taking place in the UK, and potentially France, will be required (all expenses paid).

What you will gain

The successful candidate will improve and enhance their communication skills and gain demonstrable experience in writing copy to be printed and/or broadcast across Europe. They will be liaising with international journalists and learning protocols to secure media coverage. By assisting in setting up the inaugural round of this international event taking place in the UK, they will learn techniques applied in staging, guest speaker placement, event management, hospitality, media management, filming commitments and automotive insights. 

Skills, knowledge or experience needed

  • Passion for sustainability/electric vehicles/ renewable energy.
  • Time management
  • Ideally skilled with PowerPoint/google slides/Canva

Desirable:

  • Adobe suite skills
  • Background in marketing/events/PR
  • French speaking

Location: Tyntesfield, Somerset | hybrid 

Website: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/bath-bristol/tyntesfield

Flexible Duration: between 1 and 3 months full-time, or the part-time equivalent | May - September 2023

Deadline for Expressions of Interest: Monday 3rd April 2023, noon

To apply, please email training@oocdtp.ac.uk with a CV and a short letter detailing your interest in this opportunity, by Monday 3rd April 2023, noon. Please do not hesitate to contact the same e-mail, If you have any questions or would like to find out more about the placement.

Interview Dates: Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed online on 26th April.

Placement Description

This Placement offers the opportunity to shed new light on the relationship between servants and owners in the early twentieth-century country house. You will be based at Tyntesfield, a late Gothic country house with one of the largest collections in the National Trust. You will be researching wallpapers and other forms of decoration surviving in situ in the service areas, together with the archive of wallpaper which includes samples, unused rolls and fragments dating from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth century. Your aim will be to uncover what decoration can tell us about the shifting place of servants within this country house. There will also be some travel to related archives in London and to other Trust properties where research into wallpapers has already been carried out. Outputs will take the form of a report, and there will be potential to develop your findings in relevant publications. The project holder would also be encouraged to contribute to the Trust’s programme of Friday Curator talks. You will also explore ways to make these findings accessible to NT visitors, whether through digital assets such as a virtual ‘guided tour’, or a physical exhibition of wallpaper fragments with interactive elements.

Skills, knowledge or experience needed:

  • Second or final year Doctoral student in the Arts & Humanities
  • Experience of working with nineteenth and twentieth century archives
  • Interest in working in a heritage setting and in presentation methods
  • Knowledge of the late nineteenth and twentieth century and in particular the country house is also desirable