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

The Producer will collaboratively produce audio-visual content used to engage and support educators.

Reporting to the Production Lead, the post holder will support the development and production of content for Into Film’s Video on-demand platform (IF+), Learning Platform, Into Film website and educator facing social media. They will work with colleagues from across the organisation to research and scope ideas, and manage content from concept to delivery.

The Producer will also support the production of advocacy content, delivering case study films that illustrate the impact of the Into Film programme.

Whilst focussing on content for IF+ and the Learning Platform, the post-holder will also support team members and colleagues from across the organisation to produce a range of content, including but not limited to the Into Film Festival and the Into Film Awards.

 Main Responsibilities

• Work as part of project teams, and with the Production Lead to collaboratively produce video/audio content that targets educators, including that hosted on Into Film’s Learning Platform, as well as Into Film+.

• Support the Production Lead with the production of advocacy content (filmed case studies with educators and young people) that demonstrates the impact of the Into Film programme.

• Support the Production Lead to ensure that all production needs are covered for the Into Film Festival and Into Film Awards.

• Work with colleagues from across the organisation to produce content for other audiences, including, children and young people, as well as the screen industry, as and when required. This role is focussed on IF+ and Learning Platform content but must flex in order to support other objectives.

• Help to prepare and manage budgets for production activity, providing regular updates to the Production Lead.

• Work collaboratively with Video Content Manager to ensure creative and technical elements of each production, from pre-production, to shooting, and delivery, are met.

• Produce content for commercial projects, from pre-production to edit.

• Ensure all projects are appropriately resourced and supported including the costing and management of project budgets, schedules and post-production; experience is essential here.

• Ensure all content is compliant with regulations and codes of practice with regards to health and safety, child protection and safeguarding.

• Ensure all content is compliant and cleared for use across all channels including reporting to relevant associations.

• Formulate new ideas for development showing an awareness of the UK screen industry and the needs of educators.

• Actively promote equal opportunities, and the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of Into Film’s work, and ensure that these are reflected in the content it produces.

• Manage freelancers where necessary.

• Assist Production Lead with project feasibility testing and the scoping of briefs as and when required.

• Maintain good working relationships with everyone involved in the development process.

 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 accessibility and inclusion in line with Into Film’s Equal Opportunities Policy

• Any other reasonable duties assigned by Into Film

• The role may require some work away from home for short periods and/or evening and weekends

 Person Specification

Minimum Requirements:

• A good understanding of educators (and the education sector) and the media/channels they engage with

• Experience of producing content with a clear understanding of both the creative and technical requirements from pre-production, to filming and delivery

• Ability to take on multiple projects, including planning, implementation, budgeting and evaluation

• Positive, solution, focused approach with fast problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication and organisational skills with a broad spectrum of people; high profile talent, educators, industry experts and young people

• A good understanding of producing and controlling production/event budgets

• Basic camera and editing skills to support Video Content Leads

• Experience of engaging children and young people in the production process and knowledge of child protection and safeguarding issues

• Experience of contracting and working with freelance crew

• The ability to work proactively and unsupervised as part of a team

• Practical knowledge of rights clearance for audio-visual production and up to date knowledge of compliance in relation to video production

 Desirable

• Experience of working with and creating content for Video on Demand and Learning Management platforms

• Sound understanding of film and arts organisations.

• Experience of tracking and analysing quantitative and qualitative feedback to measure performance and inform future content production strategy

• Experience delivering to a range of formats and technical specifications; online up to cinema delivery

• A love and knowledge of film

 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