HETV Scripted Line Producer Training Programme (United Kingdom)

Training for the UK high-end TV industry is supported by the ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund (with contributions from productions companies, broadcasters and SVoDs in the UK).

Investment addresses the skills and development needs of high-end 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 High-end TV Council.

The High-end TV Skills Fund is looking for an organisation or individual/s who can design and run line producer training for twenty professionals who have come up through the assistant director or location manager route.

Funding Information

• They are looking for bids of up to £50,000

Participant Aims

• The training should be for a minimum of fifty participants based across the UK and should target scripted professionals who have come up through the assistant director or location manager route.
• The following are the minimum diversity aims for this programme:
  • At least 50% of beneficiaries based outside London
  • 20% minority ethnic groups (ethnicity aim)
  • 50% women (gender aim)
  • 10% disability (disability aim)
  • 10% LGBT (sexual orientation and gender identity aim)
• Providing access to diverse crew and talent is key to the delivery objectives. All trainers and companies delivering programmes that are funded by the High-end 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.

Key Requirements

• The applicant must design, manage, market, recruit and deliver training for participants via a comprehensive course covering everything they need to know to be an effective line producer in scripted HETV, including sessions on:
  • setting up a production
  • effective recruitment
  • negotiating contracts
  • health and safety
  • budget and cost report management
  • scheduling
  • legal requirements
  • overseeing the production office team
  • managing suppliers
  • overtime
• They encourage applicants to also advise further topic areas to enhance this training and may find the ScreenSkills’ Skills Checklists helpful.
• The course should include:
  • Q&As with Heads of Department – managing relationships pan-budget and pan-department
  • Leadership and management
  • A session covering self-marketing, CV writing and how to find opportunities for work
  • An industry networking event for participants to meet those in hiring roles

Who can apply?

• ScreenSkills welcomes applications from individuals, partnerships or organisations that have a proven track record of delivering successful industry-standard training projects. They particularly welcome applications from providers based in the UK nations and regions, including partnerships between organisations and/or in partnership with freelancers who have worked as a line producer/production executive.
• The successful applicant will need to demonstrate their understanding of HETV 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.
• They particularly welcome applications from those based in the UK nations and regions, including partnerships between organisations and/or individuals with expertise in HETV.
• If applicants are already delivering similar training and can expand their offer to include the scope, they are also welcomed to apply.
• Applicants 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 and including during the application process) to make it accessible to a diverse audience – they 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,
    • providing diversity and inclusivity training to facilitators.
  • 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.

For more information, visit ScreenSkill.