ScreenSkills invites training providers or industry professionals to tender for new training designed to address skills shortages and gaps and to help build a more inclusive workforce in unscripted TV.
Training for the UK unscripted TV industry is supported by the ScreenSkills Unscripted TV Skills Fund (with contributions from productions companies, broadcasters and SVoDs in the UK).
Investment addresses the skills and development needs of unscripted TV, tackling skill gaps and shortages, and ensuring the robust growth of the sector is secured with a fully skilled and inclusive workforce. All priorities are endorsed by the industry led Unscripted TV Skills Council and Steering Group.
The Unscripted TV Skills Fund is looking for an organisation or individual(s) who can design and run a data wrangler programme.
Who can apply?
ScreenSkills welcomes applications from individuals, partnerships or organisations that have a proven track record of delivering successful industry-standard training projects. We particularly welcome applications from those based in the UK nations and regions, including partnerships between organisations and/or individuals with expertise in unscripted TV.
The successful applicant will need to demonstrate their understanding of Unscripted 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.
If applicants are already delivering similar training and can expand their offer to include the scope outlined below, they are also welcome to apply.
Applicants must:
- Demonstrate evidence of appropriate, recent engagement with the industry in the design and delivery of the programme
- Meet critical diversity aims as outlined in this tender, including:
- making reasonable adjustments to the training (whether face-to-face, content or online and including during the application process) to make it accessible to a diverse audience – we will ask for evidence of your approach and implementation
- 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
Key requirements
The training provider must design, manage, market, recruit and deliver the programme. The training is intended for those with unscripted industry experience looking to expand and diversify their skill set to make themselves more employable. It is not intended as a new entrant programme for those with no previous experience.
The training should include:
- A comprehensive understanding of the data workflow, where the role of data wrangler fits within it and how vital a role it is
- Technical skills to deliver effective data management on location and ensure the safe transfer of rushes in a timely manner
- Communication skills: working within a team, remaining calm under pressure and managing up
- Maintenance of SD cards, cameras and kit
- Understanding and awareness of best practice data management principles
- Managing your own workload, prioritisation and attention to detail
We’d like for some of the training to be delivered in person, particularly when training on kit and cameras.
Participants must also complete ScreenSkills’ e-learning modules in tackling bullying and harassment, inclusive hiring, mental health awareness and unconscious bias.
Participant aims
The training should be for a minimum of 30 participants based across the UK and should target those looking to diversify their skillset as data wranglers.
The following are the minimum diversity targets for this programme:
- At least 65% of beneficiaries based outside London
- 20% from a minority ethnic group (ethnicity aim)
- 50% female (gender aim)
- 12% disability (disability aim)
- 12% LGBT (sexual orientation and gender identity aim)
- 30% social inclusion (based on parental occupation)
Providing access to diverse crew and talent is key to our delivery objectives. All trainers and companies delivering programmes that are funded by the Unscripted TV Skills Fund must meet the identified diversity requirements. If they fail to do so, they must show robust evidence of why a target has not been met.
We require all Skills Fund-funded programme participants to set up a ScreenSkills profile via our website and to provide diversity data at this point. Participants must complete their profile and diversity data before the training begins.
How to apply
At this stage we are requesting an expression of interest. After clicking the button below, training providers will be emailed by the USF team and asked to complete a brief document outlining the key aspects of the proposed programme, how the key requirements of the training sessions will be met, information about the company and the provider’s capacity to deliver training.
How much can you apply for?
We are looking for bids of up to £90,000
All our funds are treated as grants and therefore are not applicable for VAT.
Deadlines
All expressions of interest should be sent directly to the Unscripted TV Skills Fund team via the 'register interest' button by Sunday 27 October.
If you are successful in being shortlisted, you will be required to submit an online application form and a budget by Sunday 24 November. Applicants will be notified of a decision by w/c 16 December.
Other useful information
As part of your application, we will expect you to detail how you have, or will be, ensuring the training and any application process are accessible including, but not limited to, alternative application formats, marketing and the delivery of training.
As part of accessibility, we expect your budget to include a reasonable bursary allocation for delegates who risk being excluded due to costs including, but not limited to, travel and caring responsibilities.
If there is, or will be, a charge to the delegates for the training, we will also expect your budget to include a reasonable bursary allocation to ensure no potential applicants are deterred.
Please ensure that, where applicable, costs are shown in your budget inclusive of VAT. This also applies to any delegates fees you may charge.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of this tender, or your proposal, before submitting your application, please contact us at USF@screenskills.com.