RAMP is for mid-career radio and audio professionals who are driven to succeed and are facing a career challenge, such as:

• Making the step up to the next level
• Dealing with new responsibilities following a promotion
• Embracing new ways of working
• Setting up as a freelancer or running their own production company
• Moving between public service and commercial culture
• Returning to work after a career break or redundancy
• Making a move into a different discipline

RAMP will provide mentees with:

• A carefully matched mentor for six sessions of one-to-one mentoring
• An induction so that they know what is expected of them
• Networking events
• Ongoing support from the RAMP mentoring director

This scheme requires mentees to be committed and proactive; they will be selected on what they can bring to the group as well as what they might gain from being mentored:

• Mentees will be part of an action learning set (ALS) - structured sessions for small groups to address challenging and complex issues together. Each set will meet once a month.
• Every mentee will deliver a one-hour seminar (via Zoom) on a subject of their choice to the rest of the mentees.
• Mentees will commit to attending all of the seminars (usually early evening meetings) and action learning set meetings (usually lunch meetings)
• Mentees will attend an in-person induction day, and an in-person graduation ceremony.

RAMP is available to you if you:

• Work in any role within broadcast radio or audio production. For example: production, presentation, journalism, technology, craft, commercial and support roles.
• Have more than five years’ professional experience in the industry
• Are able to attend a selection interview via Zoom in November if shortlisted
• Can commit to receiving six hours of mentoring between January and July via face-to-face meetings, email, telephone or Zoom conversations as agreed with mentor
• Can commit to attending the RAMP seminars and action learning sets
• Can attend a one-day induction to be held in London on 11th January
• Can attend a one-day debrief and graduation session to be held in London on 27th June

You do not have to be a Radio Academy Member to apply, but we will require you to become a member if you are selected.

RAMP Zoom Webinar

On 3 October, our Mentoring Director Hannah Corneck and MD Sam Bailey held a webinar with two of the 2022 RAMP cohort, to explain the scheme and answer questions.  Watch below: