Our internships tend to be focussed on broad administration skills or specific technical roles, whereas this scheme is focussed on venue management and developing broad leadership skills. Our internship scheme is a highly regarded, successful programme in its own right and is not designed to lead on to the graduate scheme. You can find out more about our upcoming internship programmes, which are usually shorter than six months and based in our offices, here. The Management Training Scheme lasts for two years and is focussed specifically on leading towards senior venue management roles as the next step.
Both schemes include the opportunity to learn about the wide variety of work ATG does and the different roles available in the company but the resulting career paths are intended to be different. The internship is focussed on broad administrative skills that are relevant to all job roles, and at the end of the internship interns typically move on to junior roles in specialist ‘shared services’ departments or administrator roles in venues. Management trainees however must be focussed on theatre management and venue operations, but will learn about the different departments and functions so that they have a thorough understanding of how the business works as a whole. We think this will set trainees up well for senior venue management roles as these roles are ‘generalist’ and require you to have a good understanding of all elements of the business.