Festival Producer

Salary: £30,000 pro rata

London Short Film Festival are seeking to recruit a confident and experienced Festival Producer who will become an integral part of the close-knit and dynamic LSFF team.

About the role

The Festival Producer will lead and manage all aspects of festival production for LSFF 2022, which takes place across London from 14th-23rd January 2022.

Freelance fixed term contract: October 2021 – February 2022, 5 month contract, 5 days per week, 30k pro rata

To apply, please send a CV and covering letter (no more than 1 page) highlighting how your experience, skills and personal qualities fit the role to: akinna@shortfilms.org.uk.

Deadline for applications: Friday 17th September 2021. Immediate start preferred.

Key responsibilities

• Managing funding and sponsor relationships
• Maintaining relationships with venues, supporters and partners.
• Compiling and distributing schedules and planning documents to all staff
• Maintaining a detailed timeline and ensuring deadlines are met
• Diversity and feedback recording, monitoring and compiling overall festival feedback from audiences, staff and partners
• Overseeing full team programming meetings and documenting progress and actionpoints
• Be an integral voice in making key decisions for LSFF 2022, for example: questions around online platform pricing, where to place priorities for budget and resources
• Coordinating trailer delivery, website and brochure build – working closely with the Marketing Manager to ensure strong, cohesive branding
• Ensuring all communications with selected and competition filmmakers is clear and dealing with queries as they arise
• Taking responsibility for budget and financial management, including reporting
• Coordinating online platform build technical partners – ensuring that they have the most correct and up to date information (film credits, copy, images etc)
• Coordinating geo-blocking films where requested
• Overseeing the subtitling process with our technical partners
• Overseeing and managing all in-venue staff
• Ensure that we have the correct certification necessary for screening to take place
• Organise and manage all equipment hire and set dressing where necessary

Person specification – Minimum Requirements

• Experience of working on festival/s in a production role essential
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Experience of coordinating complex management systems
• Able to work effectively as part of a team and independently
• Effective line management experience
• Excellent communication skills in person, and over telephone and email
• Experience of writing and researching funding applications and reports (desired)
• Able to take accountability and ownership of complex situations

The closing date for this position is 17/09/2021 at 23:59