The Marginal Associates Programme is back for YEAR 2!

We’re on the lookout for 2 young people aged 16-25 to join us as paid Marginal Associates (MAs) — working 15 hours a week for 6 months. The two roles are: 

• Creative Youth Engagement 

• Digital Content and Communications

Each MA role is completely unique and designed to give you career experience, develop your skills, and grow different parts of our organisation. You won’t be stuck doing the same thing every week — your role will evolve and adapt depending on what the team needs and which direction you want to take your personal and professional development. 

Whether you're looking to build skills, explore new interests, or make a real impact, this is your chance to shape something exciting while getting paid for your time. 

Scroll down to find out more about each of the roles, to read the full job descriptions and recruitment packs, and also how to apply…

What is the role? 

Are you interested in working as a Creative Youth Worker, or a Creative Workshop Facilitator?

We are looking for a young person aged 16-25 to join the Comics Youth team as a Marginal Associate, focusing specifically on youth engagparticipation.

This is a development role where you will support on our Zine Collective sessions to help make sure our group members feel comfortable and heard, to develop evaluation activities, and to keep youth voice central to the project’s growth and impact.

To read the full job description and recruitment pack, please click the buttons below - we strongly recommend reading both before submitting an application: 

To apply for this role, please complete this application form here - there will be a section to upload your CV in the form:

What is the role? 

Do you want experience working in marketing, graphic design, and content creation?

We are looking for a young person aged 16-25 to join the Comics Youth team as a Marginal Associate, focusing specifically on digital engagement.

This is a development role where you will support our marketing activity and online voice through creating and publishing blogs, making content for our social media platforms, and developing our websites.

To read the full job description and recruitment pack, please click the buttons below - we strongly recommend reading both before submitting an application: 

To apply for this role, please complete this application form here - there will be a section to upload your CV in the form:

Equality, Diversity & Access Monitoring

We want Comics Youth to be a place where people who have historically been excluded from the arts, youth and charity sectors can belong, contribute and lead.

Alongside your application, we invite you to complete our Equality, Diversity & Access Monitoring Form.

The form helps us understand who our opportunities are reaching, where barriers to recruitment may still exist, and whether we are living up to our commitments around equity, diversity and inclusion. It also helps us look critically at our recruitment practices and make them better.

Completing the form is voluntary. You can choose “prefer not to say” for any question, or choose not to complete the form at all. This will not affect your application in any way.

Your monitoring information is kept separate from your application and the shortlisting process. It will not be used to decide whether you are shortlisted or appointed, and recruitment panel members will not use this information when assessing your application.

We recognise that monitoring forms can sometimes ask people to fit themselves into boxes that do not fully describe who they are. Wherever possible, our form includes inclusive options, opportunities to self-describe and the option not to answer.

The information is used for equality monitoring and improving our recruitment practice, with reporting carried out in a way that does not identify individual applicants.

👉 Complete the voluntary Equality, Diversity & Access Monitoring Form: