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) on IF.org 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

 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.