Skills Street: Activity Development Trainee
Introduction
In May 2025, the doors opened to Skills Street: Rotherham’s innovative, new ‘world of work’ learning centre, designed to inspire and educate young people and adults from across the borough and beyond.
This is your opportunity to shape the future for South Yorkshire’s next generation workforce (you included!), working directly with the Skills Street team and with colleagues at Gulliver’s Valley Theme Park and The Work-Wise Foundation to establish Skills Street as a home for creativity.
Skills Street is evolving to reflect the voice of Rotherham’s young people. Their driven and creative Activity Development Trainees (you!) will be a key part of the delivery team, working to develop the Skills Street offer.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Be a key part of our activity delivery team (also known as ‘Edutainers’)
- Deliver, design and adapt 45-minute skills sessions across several “industry zones”
- Deliver activities to schools
- Bring culturally relevant activity into the venue, supporting one-off ‘pop up’ activity and longer-term provision that enables our fun and immersive creative and cultural space to flourish for visitors.
- Working pro-actively to maintain the venue, zones and provision for visitors.
- Be a team player who can multi-task and take ownership and pride in their work.
- Bring the voice of Rotherham’s young people into the venue.
- Express yourself and your ideas for innovation
Essential Requirements
- Excellent customer service skills, able to be welcoming and engaging with visitors of all ages
- A team player who can work collaboratively with the wider Skills Street team and will share responsibility for maintaining the space and delivering sessions.
- Adaptability and flexibility, with a willingness to support across multiple roles, adjust to working with different age groups and visitor needs, and to take on varied tasks
What You’ll Gain
- Training and support from our dedicated management team.
- The opportunity to be at the heart of developing a unique skills and learning platform, right here in Rotherham.
Working Days and Hours
3 days per week. These days will be flexible around needs of the business, visits and support for our site offer.
Line Manager: James Beighton, Development Manager - Skills Street
Location: Gulliver’s Valley Theme Park, Mansfield Rd, Sheffield, S26 5QW