About Into Film

Into Film is the UK’s leading charity for film in education. We provide screen industry careers information and advice, support and inspire young filmmakers, and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching. 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

As part of the Learning Content Creation (LCC) team you will report to Joint Heads of Programme who have strategic responsibility for Into Film’s overall educational programme. As one of three Leads for LCC (Resources, Training and Curation) you will work closely with the Training Lead to collaboratively manage and motivate the Resources Team responsible for devising, commissioning, creating and delivering high quality film-focused and training resources. Into Film is primarily focused on resources promoting film for learning, filmmaking and moving image, and careers, as well as commissioned and commercially supported resources in partnership with major film studios. Into Film resources and training are designed for use in both formal and informal educational and youth group settings. You will assist and feed into the strategic planning for resources and training with senior management. You will be a leader within the main outward-facing team championing Into Film’s resources and training, working with a view to ensuring the take up of this part of the Into Film offer. You will work with teams across Into Film ensuring that information on your work is disseminated and that you gather input from other areas of the programme.

Main Responsibilities:

• To manage and motivate a small team to ensure that Into Film meets challenging targets on quality and uptake of our resources and training offer, ensuring deadlines are met.

• To assist your Managers (Joint Heads of Programme) and others to work strategically over the next three years, including planning, reporting, responding to relevant fundraising opportunities, and working with the team to understand and adhere to budgets.

• To positively contribute to the development of Into Film’s video-on-demand/and online learning platforms and create materials, resources and content for both.

• To oversee research, commissioning and delivery of resources both in-house and externally and ensure that all resources/training meet high writing, educational and child protection standards as well as being exciting and stimulating for teachers and students alike.

• To build and manage relationships with partners and others so that Into Film works with other high-quality brands and organisations, thus maximizing the value and visibility of our resources and training.

• Liaise with teachers and educators across the UK to ensure that resources are fit for purpose and user-led.

• To implement quality assurance processes and regularly contribute to the regular monitoring and evaluation of Into Film’s work.

 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 long term planning to ensure growth in line with demand and resources

• Contribute to the regular monitoring and evaluation of the 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:

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills both written and in-person.

• Experience of team and project management, including commissioning work from individuals/organisations, running meetings, identifying training needs and managing HR issues in collaboration, where necessary, with the HR team.

• Teaching in the UK or equivalent experience.

• Experience of producing high quality resources and training, of film as a cultural art form alongside literature, drama etc. and as an educational tool.

• Knowledge of schools, and the curriculum in the four nations and of informal learning settings such youth clubs, libraries etc.

• Experience of research, and devising monitoring and evaluation frameworks.

• Experience of working effectively with partner organisations/client management.

• Writing reports for funders and others.

• A love and knowledge of film.

 Desirable: 

• Experience of commercial resource production

• Experience of working in the not-for-profit sector 

• Some experience/knowledge of filmmaking with teachers and young people

• Speaking at conferences or with smaller groups of educationalists and others

• Familiarity with Microsoft 365  

 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.

 At Into Film, we use Applied for our recruitment. Applied aims to overcome unconscious bias in recruiting. Instead of using your CV, we'll be asking you to answer questions to test skills needed for the role. The responses are then anonymised, and reviewed in a random order by members of our team. Find out more information here.

The Applied platform also asks some demographic questions before you start your application.  We at Into Film never see the responses to these demographic questions with your application. We only see summary statistics to help us check if our candidate pool is balanced and if everyone has an equal chance to get hired irrespective of their background. If you prefer, you can easily opt out of answering these questions