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 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 Coordinator (South-West) is a key point of contact for the Into Film Programme in England and delivers Into Film’s Programmes and projects both face to face and online with a bespoke approach for the south west.

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 deliver various elements of the new Into Film programme in the south west including, but not limited to, CPD/training for teachers at all career stages, events, conferences, round tables, Teachmeet style gatherings and teacher panels both online and face to face

• To develop, sustain and be the local point of contact for schools, partners, individuals and organisations that add value or are users of the Into Film programme including a focus on EEDI and how Into Film can specifically, positively reach and include those who are underserved and underrepresented.

• To feed into and then deliver the plans in England across the programme (including Teaching with Film, Careers and Progression and Young Creatives (plus Into Film Festival, Into Film Awards and additionally funded programmes, as needed)

• To work with all departments at Into Film to ensure a joined-up approach and delivery of set outcomes, KPIs whilst adhering to budgets and deadlines

• To ensure reach across the south west and to feed into UK wide work and awareness of Into Film Programmes responding where possible to local needs

• Activation and delivery of the programme across the south west including feeding relevant regional content into email campaigns and managing the regional social media account.

• Managing local partnerships and relationships with individuals and organisations

• Utilise CRM to input and analyse data, creating dashboards and reports.

• Feeding into fundraising proposals and assessing the activity needed to achieve outcomes when planning a project.

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:

•  Experience in activating and delivering a programme of activity within an educational context including training for teachers, workshops, events and panels.

• Knowledge of the south west landscape including English education policy and curriculum, and the screen industries.

• Ability and experience in activating and delivering other funded work including, but not limited to, Into Film Festival, Into Film Awards and other additionally funded work as it arises.

• Experience of starting, sustaining and managing relationships and partnerships with individuals and organisations locally and sometimes nationally.

• Experience of successfully delivering projects on budget and on time.

• Ability to work across a variety of strands within programmes.

• Ability to work with and agree work plans across departments in Into Film to ensure KPIs, targets and agreed outcomes are met.

• Experience and full understanding of monitoring, reporting and evaluation to ensure the programmes continually improve and evolve.

• Experience and knowledge of project planning liaising across different departments delivering to time and both managing expectations and achieving the necessary buy-in from industry.

• Awareness of the process of fundraising and feeding key information and research into successful applications.

• Experience of using CRM/Salesforce is desirable.

 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