Programming & Events Assistant (3-month placement)
Reporting to: Programme Manager, with day-to-day work across the Senior Programming Team, Senior Event Managers and Marketing Manager Locations: Hackney Wick (Colour Factory) and Peckham (Jumbi) Pattern: 2 to 3 days a week, mostly in person across the sites. Some evenings when events are running and it'd be useful for you to be in the room. Rate: £12.21 to £14/hour depending on experience Length: 3 months fixed term, with the option to extend or convert to a permanent role if it's working for both sides. Start: ASAP Right to work: You must have the right to work in the UK.
About us
We run two of London's most active independent hospitality and cultural venues: Colour Factory, our music venue and event space in Hackney Wick, and Jumbi, our bar and cultural hub in Peckham. We programme a wide range of nights, partnerships, residencies and community events across both sites.
Why we're hiring
We're looking for someone junior in title but already plugged into London's music scene to support our programming, events and marketing teams as we move into a busy summer and autumn. You'll get hands-on across the full lifecycle of how our events come together, from booking and partnerships through advancing each show to night-of delivery and the marketing that fills the rooms. And you'll bring your own network and scene knowledge to bear from day one.
The role
You'll be a supporting hand across three connected teams: programming, events and marketing. The work will move with what's happening across the calendar, so no two weeks look exactly alike. Sometimes you'll be advancing shows with tour managers, sometimes supporting a marketing rollout, sometimes on the floor with a senior event manager.
What you'll do
Programming support. Helping the programme manager and senior programming team with artist coordination, scheduling, promoter and partner comms, and prep for upcoming events.
Advancing. Pre-show coordination with artists, tour managers, agents and promoters. Riders, stage plots, hospitality, schedules, guest lists, production needs. Making sure everyone has what they need before they walk through the door so the night runs smoothly. This is a big part of the role.
Events delivery. Working alongside the senior event managers in the run-up to and during events. Night-of-show support, supplier coordination, helping things land smoothly on the day.
Marketing. Supporting the marketing manager on rollouts: assets, scheduling, social, listings, and the details that make a campaign work.
General team support. Whatever's needed to help the teams hit their cadence. You'll be the kind of person who looks for what needs doing and picks it up.
Ideal candidate
You live and breathe London's music and nightlife scene. You're in the thick of it. You know the promoters that resonate us, you know the artists, you know which collectives are doing interesting things and where the rooms are. You have a book of contacts that's actually current and that you actually use.
You've been doing this on the ground already. Maybe you've put on your own nights, worked at other venues, run with a collective, done bookings for someone smaller. Whatever the route, you're already a known face. You're junior but already have a network or great instinct for nightlife and move easily between a sweaty basement at 2am and a meeting with a tour manager at 11am.
You're organised enough to do the detail work that backs all of that up. Advancing a show is patient, careful work and you're up for it. You communicate clearly, take feedback well, flag things early, and you're not precious about the admin bits.
Bonus if you've got social media instincts and a design eye, but the network and the scene fluency are non-negotiable.
To apply
Send a short note and CV to hiring@colourfactory.com. Tell us:
- Three promoters, collectives or artists you've worked with or know personally, and what the relationship is.
- A night you've been to in the last month that genuinely surprised you, and why.
- Something you've organised yourself, even if small, that you're proud of.
- Where you're based and what your ideal working pattern looks like.