Filmmaking Coordinator

Filmmaking Coordinator
Employment Type: Full time, Permanent
Location: Hybrid, United Kingdom (multiple locations) Edinburgh, Cardiff, Salford, London, Northern Ireland.
Working days: 5 days a week
Salary: £28,000 - £35,000 (GBP) pro rata + benefits
Team: Activation Team
Seniority: Mid-level

About Into Film

Into Film is the UK’s leading charity for film in education and the community. We provide screen industry careers information and advice, support young filmmakers, and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching. We also run the annual Into Film Festival which enables more than 400,000 pupils to visit the cinema for free, and the Into Film Awards - the UK’s leading showcase for young filmmaking talent. The core Into Film programme is free for UK state schools, colleges and other youth settings, thanks to support from the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding, and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.

We work hard to live and breathe our values and strive to be an impactful, inclusive and inspirational organisation. We are fully committed to providing an inclusive, active listening culture that respects difference, in which staff are happy and proud to create a programme for the diverse society we work with.

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

Role Summary

To coordinate various filmmaking projects as directed by the Filmmaking Lead including Into Film’s BFI funded Young Creatives programme and Into Film’s increasingly successful Every Child a Filmmaker campaign and the multiple projects arising.

Main Responsibilities:

• Be part of the matrix project team co-ordinating filmmaking activity across the organisation, working under the Filmmaking lead and Joint Head of Programmes, to implement the delivery plan for Filmmaking.
• Work with colleagues to create filmmaking resources (for educators and young people), teacher training events and courses and regular competitions to stimulate filmmaking.
• Collaborate with colleagues in Marcomms to embed and promote the filmmaking offer across all communication channels, including social media.
• Manage and create a process for judging the Film of the Month (or similar) ‘always on’ competitions, partnership and themed competitions and the Into Film Awards filmmaking categories.
• Work with colleagues to build partnerships with informal youth groups to stimulate and incentivise filmmaking.
• Build and maintain a database of filmmaking organisations across the UK.
• As additional funding allows, reach underrepresented and underserved young people through organisations (including schools) to match with experienced filmmaking practitioners to deliver projects.
• Provide data and evaluation to input into reporting to funders on progress.
• Maintain content on the Filmmaking ‘Hub’ pages (one for educators one for young people) to keep them fresh, relevant and up to date.
• Support the production of an annual showreel highlighting a range of diverse, representative stories.
• Add youth made films to IF+ Into Film Shorts 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, teachers, children and young people, partners, funders, supporters etc.
• Contribute to the regular monitoring and evaluation of Into Film’s work
• Commitment to equality of opportunity in line with Into Film’s Equal Opportunities Policy
• Any other reasonable duties assigned by Into Film

Person Specification:

Minimum Requirements:

• Organisation project management skills, strong communication style and ability to juggle multiple projects.
• Experience of managing filmmaking competitions to include devising judging criteria, moderation, selection against criteria.
• Experience of supporting and overseeing organisations and partners to run filmmaking projects with young people.
• An understanding of how to reach and work successfully with organisations (including schools) and young people from disadvantaged areas or who are underrepresented/underserved to maximize inclusivity.
• Experience of creating rigorous approach to project design and evaluation to ensure all projects are Impactful with set outcomes being achieved and projects improving through the feedback cycle.
• Awareness and understanding of CRM systems

Closing: 9:00am, 5th Feb 2024 GMT

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

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 Into Film’s expense; employment is dependent upon this.

No agencies please.