Music Industry Mentoring

Music Industry Mentoring is a structured workplace learning program for young people in the early stages of their music career. 

Responding to sector-wide skills shortages and declining enrolments across music and arts in both secondary and higher education, the Music Industry Mentoring program creates a pipeline for skilled industry practitioners – providing both young people and workplaces with a framework that ensures workplace readiness and meaningful pathways into the contemporary music sector.

From 2024, The Push will give 60 young people the opportunity to be placed and mentored in some of Australia’s biggest music companies to develop skills, confidence and networks across a range of streams including event management, technical production, business operations and marketing and promotions.

The Music Industry Mentoring Program is delivered with support from The Ian Potter Foundation - one of Australia’s major philanthropic foundations, delivering grants to support charitable organisations working to benefit the community.

Applications are now open for the next cohort of The Push’s national workplace learning program – Music Industry Mentoring.  

With support from The Ian Potter Foundation, this intake of the Music Industry Mentoring program will support eleven young people with opportunities to be placed and mentored in some of Australia’s biggest music companies.

Industry partners providing mentoring opportunities for this intake of the program include Live Nation, Moshtix, MusicACT, QMusic, SRO, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Theatre Royal, and WAM, with opportunities right across Australia. From Hobart to Darwin to Perth to Canberra, as well as Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney, there’s likely an opportunity available for YOU!

While this volunteer program is open to all young people aged 18 – 25 based anywhere within Australia, priority access will be given to First Nations young people, young people of colour, young people from low-income households, young people with a disability and LGBTQIA+ young people. To cover any expenses incurred, all program participants will receive a once-off honorarium paid at the commencement of the program.