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 good cause funding, and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.

Our vision – Film enriches the life of every child and young person. 

Our mission – To inspire and support young people to learn, and to realise their creative, cultural and career aspirations, through film and the moving image.

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  

The Programme Lead, Scotland (PLS) will work closely with the Joint Heads of Programmes to develop and implement the plan for the new BFI funded programmes and any additionally funded work across Scotland. The PLS manages a regional Programme Coordinator(PC), directing and supporting them in their role to achieve the various targets/KPIs, strategic objectives and outcomes for Into Film’s work. The PLS works closely across all teams through a matrix management model ensuring a joined up and streamlined approach across all programme strands at Into Film. The PLS and PC will develop and maintain a range of partnerships across Scotland.   

Due to the nature of the role, occasional weekend and extended working hours are required, along with regular travel to designated regions and occasional travel elsewhere in the UK.  

  Main Responsibilities:   

• To ensure the activation team can implement operational plans for BFI and other projects ensuring the programme is relevant and tailored to our audiences in Scotland, working in step and joined up with all teams at Into Film  

• To maintain, develop and oversee partnership work, relationships and initiatives with schools, individuals, and organisations that are pertinent to our three main programme strands: Film for Learning, Screen Careers and Filmmaking, and any other funded work.  

• To ensure a focus on diversity, representation and EEDI and targeted work.  

• Working closely with the internal MarComms team to ensure UK-wide reach and awareness of Into Film across all programme strands.   

• As directed by the Joint Heads of Programmes, plan and support the implementation of the plan through Activation Coordinators, colleagues, partners and stakeholders, meeting targets/KPIs, set outcomes and managing the budgets thereof.  

• Lead on the evolution of partnership work including delivery through them and key relationships in Scotland that aid the success of the programmes both internally and externally.  

• Work on fundraising proposals as appropriate.  

   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 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:  

• Experience of directing and supporting the implementation of operational plans within a Scottish context to meet strategic objectives targets/KPIs and set outcomes.  

• Experience of managing a team and liaising across workstreams and departments.  

• Experience of ensuring the training and guidance is in place for the team to successfully deliver all elements of the Into Film programmes (including but not limited to training/CPD, events, conferences relationship management).

• Ability and experience of initiating, maintaining and overseeing partnership work getting buy-in from colleagues and those who will also be involved in implementation of the plan.  

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in all mediums and experience of being an advocate for Into Film at events/conferences etc.  

• Ability and experience of ensuring EEDI work is central to implementation of the programme and endeavouring to reach those who are underrepresented and underserved.  

• Understanding and experience of what young people, teachers, schools and those working in the realm of careers need to be able to participate and benefit from Into Film’s UK wide programmes including the educational backdrop and context of schools in Scotland.  

• Experience and understanding of monitoring and evaluation as well as managing feedback and advocacy loops via our Education Ambassadors, Youth Advisory Council and Expert Panels.

• Knowledge and experience of fundraising and how using key local knowledge and desk-based research is effective in success.  

• Understanding of CRM reporting, dashboards and data analysis to inform programme delivery.   

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