TECHWELL Career StartUp
(for Young People aged 16-24)
Managed Internship including micro-training for 16-24
Gain skills and work experience with MEaP’s TECHWELL Career Start-Up!
What is TECHWELL Career StartUp?
- TECHWELL career startup is a 5 to 6-week work opportunity
- You choose your role, 1 of 7 e.g., digital marketer
- You choose 1 of 5+ challenges, e.g., creating MEaP’s brochure
- You apply by sending us your CV
- You get a real job interview with full feedback
- You start your work to complete your project
- You attend a weekly one hour review on your work
- You get weekly feedback, mini-courses, and help applying to roles
- You complete your project
- You get together with a few colleagues to prepare a group presentation
- You present your work to MEaP colleagues
- You receive a certificate of internship participation
Gain Skills and Experience relevant to the role you choose to pursue
Skills and experience gained vary with the role and challenge chosen, however, below are some examples of skills gained by our interns so far:
- Protecting assets and finding information safely online
- Optimising Office Productivity with Word and PowerPoint
- Knowing use & importance of data with basic data literacy.
- Entering, cleaning, sorting, suming up & visualising data with Excel
- Finding, using, and customising media ethically and efficiently
- Knowing, and troubleshooting issues on & care for your device
- Using generative AI ethically and understanding its limitations
- Refining CVs to be ATS-friendly, unique and professional
- Improving resilience, confidence, learning self-care strategies
- Preparing for Job interview with practice and feedback
- Practicing communication, collaboration and presentation
- Analysing and solving real organisational challenges
- Targeted job search, portfolio building, and help with progression and LinkedIn
Roles and Project/Challenges we offer as part of TECHWELL Career Startup
Role: Content Creator & Media coordinator
Challenges
- A: Design a professional digital brochure about MEaP.
- B: Create an engaging explanatory video of the MEaP website.
- C: Produce a high-impact, short-form promotional video about MEaP.
- D: Using existing MEaP images, create a series of single-image, relatable marketing posters targeting our audiences. Example: captioning a relevant image: “under-stimulated? Join MEaP’s transformative interactive activities.”
- E: Produce a series of short-form social media clips featuring interviews with past participants to showcase the long-term impact of MEaP.
- F: Other possibles: Managing on-site photography, landscape event coverage, social media storytelling documenting community impacts and boost youth engagement.
Role: Digital Marketing Assistant
Challenges
- A: Build, schedule, and execute a localised digital awareness campaign to drive registrations for MEaP events.
- B: Develop a targeted digital marketing strategy specifically aimed at recruiting young people for our yearly Employability Day.
- C: Create / run a social media campaign to boost engagement and sign-ups for MEaP’s various term-time initiatives.
- D: Design a series of promotional newsletters to keep local schools, parents, and community leaders informed about upcoming MEaP youth programmes.
- E: Research and map local online community groups, creating tailored digital toolkits to help them promote MEaP’s initiatives on their own channels.
Role: Data Analyst
Challenges
- A: Optimise the storage, compliance, and visualisation of participant registration numbers across sites to help MEaP track its engagement targets.
- B: Clean, analyse, and report on data collected from the intern-designed employability surveys to identify trends in youth employment needs.
- C: Translate attendance and feedback data from recent events into clear visual charts for stakeholder reports.
- D: Conduct an audit of historical employability records to ensure data consistency and GDPR compliance and collect impact data across the fields.
- E (Predictive Modelling): Analyse past event attendance to identify peak engagement periods, helping the team plan optimal dates for future activities.
Role: Administrative Assistant
Challenges
- A: Design an automated internal tracking system for documentation pipelines, improving logistical efficiency for large-scale youth events.
- B: Design/Manage the logistical checklist, participant communications, and venue arrangements for the upcoming career fair.
- C: Gather, organise, and archive physical and digital feedback forms from participant’s sessions into a centralised database.
- D: Coordinate weekly project meetings, draft agendas, and record structured minutes to track action points across the team.
- E: Organise and track physical assets used during workshops, ensuring items like banners and interactive equipment are accounted for and ready for deployment.
Role: Youth Worker Assistant
Challenges
- A: Provide a range of creative activities for young people over the time of a project.
- B: Assist the organisers in providing activities for young people.
- C: Assist in the recruitment of relevant participants.
- D: Coordinating with or contacting parents for keeping them up to date or asking for relevant permissions.
- E: Assist in identifying and contacting employers for employability programmes.
- F: Suggest outdoor activities that will improve engagement such as outdoor creative arts & crafts and assist with the delivery of those outdoor activities
Roles: Face Festival Development Team (7 roles, EYM)
This team will work alongside our organisations senior leadership to assist production of Face Festival. Face Festival is an annual platform hosted by Elevate Young Minds, housing a wide range of activities such as: Model United Nations, Dance events, Theatre performances, Professional talks, and more.
During this program you will gain experience volunteering at festivals in Greater Manchester, attending an international development trip, and work alongside our core organising team.
We have roles available:
1. Assistant Producer – Supporting with event organisation and logistics, including tech and setup.
2. Artist Liaison – Supporting the needs of invited artists and speakers, including accommodation and travel.
3. International Relations – Supporting international guests, participants, and delegates through the festival.
4. Media Officer – Supporting marketing plans, including film/photography through the festival.
5. Debate Club Lead – Supporting delivery of debate club throughout the year, alongside MUN preparation
6. Volunteer Coordinator – Supporting the call out for, and management of volunteers during Face Festival.
7. Theatre Tech – Supporting participants on our theatre program with technical knowledge in sound & light.
Role: Web Designer OR Web Developer
Challenges
- A: Audit the official MEaP website and list design changes recommendations to improve navigation and user accessibility for MEaP audiences.
- B: Design or develop a secure internal resource webpage where future interns can access training materials and templates.
- C: Design/develop high-converting landing pages e.g., for Career Day.
- D: Design or develop interactive elements to boost website engagement.
- E: Review and update website for optimised mobile rendering.
- F: Design and structure MEaP membership subscriptions system area
Role: IT Support Technician
Challenges
- A: Inventory and evaluate all MEaP-owned digital devices, creating a software update schedule and hardware maintenance plan.
- B: Write and structure a clear, step-by-step technical guide to help new staff and interns set up their workstations and software accounts.
- C: Run a security check across MEaP’s digital communication channels, making security recommendations like multi-factor authentication.
- D: Create a digital troubleshooting log or to track/resolve day-to-day technical issues faced by staff during delivery or a digital project log.
- E: Design and test a reliable technical framework for hybrid events, ensuring audio, video, and remote streaming systems run seamlessly.
Role: Finance Assistant
Challenges
- A: Build an automated budget tracking spreadsheet to monitor expenditures across different project strands.
- B: Conduct a cost analysis of physical marketing materials versus digital campaigns to optimise MEaP’s outreach spending.
- C: Standardise the digital filing system for invoices and expenses to streamline end-of-quarter financial reporting.
- D: Identify and compile a database of potential grants and community funding streams that align with MEaP’s sustainability goals.
- E: Create clear financial charts to help project managers visualise fund distribution across different delivery locations.
Role: Project Manager
Challenges
- A: Manage one of MEaP’s projects
- B: Manage one of the MEaP’s collaborative project.
- C: Streamline the management of recurrent projects through process expounding
- D: Establish processs for managing data acquisition from consortium partners
- E: Coming up…
Role: Event Assistant
Challenges
- A: Suggest and organise a range of interactive activities for the participants to enjoy and for the organisation to promote themselves.
- B: Assist with logistics to organise an event and ensure its success.
- C: Assist in the recruitment of relevant participants for the organisation’s events and assist with registration.
- D: Coordinating with or contacting event participants other that companies to keep them up to date or asking for relevant information.
- E: Assist in identifying and contacting relevant organisations for event.
Register your interest / Apply
Express your interest in our employability programme by filling in the form below. We will get back to you with a working week.
TECHWELL Career Startup Interns and Volunteers
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Willing participants improve skills & confidence & are supported to their next career step
How and where do our interns progress?
The data
Some of our many success stories
While life overtake some of our interns, many stay in touch and share their achievements.
Interns like Mariam and Jiaying got a job during their internship because yes, we do insist you keep applying while interning, which is why we review your CV and give you a comprehensive written or verbal feedback.
Interns like Katie pursued a Master in Higher Education.
Some of our interns chose to specialise and further develop their skills. This is the case for Olu, who spcialised in data analysis and accessibility thanks to a comprehensive online programme provided by our partner 3E Web Media Ltd.
