Filmmaking Officer

Filmmaking Officer
Employment Type: Temporary/ Contract (fixed term contract for 12 months)
Hours: Full time
Location: Hybrid, United Kingdom (multiple locations)
Cardiff / Belfast / Salford / Edinburgh / London - Based at one of the organisation's offices or hybrid working with some travel across UK
Salary: £24,000 - £28,000 (GBP) plus benefits
Team: Activation Team
Seniority: Junior

Our client is the UK's leading charity for film in education and the community. They provide screen industry careers information and advice, support young filmmakers and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching.

The charity also runs their annual Film Festival which enables more than 400,000 pupils to visit the cinema for free, and their Film Awards - the UK's leading showcase for young filmmaking talent.

The core programme is free for UK state schools, colleges and other youth settings, thanks to support from the BFI, awarding National Lottery good cause funding, and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.

Role Summary

To provide administrative and operational support for the organisation's Filmmaking programme, including the BFI-funded Young Creatives programme and their Every Child a Filmmaker initiative. This role supports the wider programme's operational delivery by handling organisational tasks and assisting with specific activities, ensuring smooth running of projects in collaboration with the Filmmaking Coordinator, Filmmaking Lead and wider team.

Main Responsibilities:

• Be part of the matrix project team supporting filmmaking activity across the organisation, working under the Filmmaking lead, Filmmaking Coordinator, and Joint Head of Programmes, to implement the delivery plan for Filmmaking.
• Provide administrative support for the delivery of filmmaking projects, focusing on scheduling, tracking, updating documentation, and reporting.
• Assist in the coordination of partnerships with informal youth groups to help stimulate and incentivise filmmaking activities, ensuring accurate documentation and tracking of partnerships.
• Support resource development by assisting in the creation and maintenance of filmmaking resources, including assisting with logistical arrangements for teacher training events, competitions, and courses.
• Collaborate with the Marcomms team to assist in promoting the filmmaking offer across all communication channels, including providing organisational support for social media campaigns.
• Provide support particularly to the judging process, for Film of the Month (or similar) 'always on' competitions, partnership and themed competitions and the Into Film Awards.
• Maintain the CRM database of filmmaking organisations across the UK, ensuring data is accurate and up to date.
• As additional funding allows, research and reach out to underrepresented and underserved young people through organisations (including schools) to match with experienced filmmaking practitioners to deliver projects.
• Assist with data collection and evaluation for reporting to funders by ensuring accurate data input and collection from relevant stakeholders. Maintain content on the Filmmaking 'Hub' pages to keep them fresh, relevant and up to date.
• Support the production of an annual filmmaking showreel highlighting a range of diverse, representative stories.
• Add youth made films to the organisation's streaming service, the YouTube channel, other online platforms and submit films to appropriate international youth film festivals.

General Responsibilities:

• Commitment to quality internally and in all dealings with the public, members, educators, children and young people, partners, funders, supporters etc.
• Contribute to the regular monitoring and evaluation of the organisation's filmmaking work by assisting with data and administrative tasks.
• Commitment to equality of opportunity in line with the organisation's Opportunities Policy.
• Any other reasonable duties assigned by the organisation.

Person Specification:

Essential

• Strong administration and operational skills
• Strong communication skills
• Awareness and understanding of the filmmaking process
• Experience of cross-team working
• An understanding of managing competitions for young people
• Ability to build good relationships with partners
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Office 365
• Awareness and understanding of CRM system

Desirable

• A love of film
• Interest and knowledge of moving image content sharing and creation for young people

Existing benefits:

• Annual Leave - 28 days (pro-rata), including 3 days to cover office closure between Christmas and New Year plus
• Pension - matched up to 5% of salary (Scottish Widows)
• Support for professional qualifications - money towards courses and/or study days, if relevant to role
• Interest-free non-essential study loans
• Interest-free bike/scooter/travelcard loan
• Career break - up to 4 weeks unpaid leave, after 2 years' service (at your managers' discretion)
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - 24/7 confidential advice and guidance
• Flexible working - all applications considered, but any decision will be at the discretion of Into Film
• Enhanced parental leave
• Childcare vouchers
• Free eye test & contribution to glasses
• BenefitHub portal - all benefits to be accessed through a new online portal
• Long service holiday award - after 3 years working for the organisation, staff will get one extra days' holiday for each additional year worked, with the total entitlement capped at 35 days, i.e. on your 4th anniversary at the organisation you will get an extra day's leave; on your 5th anniversary, your entitlement will go up by another day to 30 days.
• Simplyhealth - health insurance

The organisation operates a hybrid working policy with offices in London, Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh and Salford. They are open to flexible working and offer staff a health plan.

All employees regularly working with children and member data are required to undertake and maintain enhanced DBS clearance (and/or Access NI check or Disclosure Scotland check, depending on working location), acquired at the organisation's expense; employment is dependent upon this.

Closing: 8:00am (GMT), Friday 13th January 2025

Interested?

To apply, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form where you can find out more information and complete your application by following the instructions.

No agencies please.