Festival Volunteers

Salary: Expenses paid (food and travel)

Native Spirit Festival of Indigenous Film is looking for Volunteers for immediate start. The volunteer team will be key to promoting Native-produced works and ensuring this year’s festival runs smoothly.

Native Spirit Festival are seeking reliable, conscientious Volunteers to promote Native-produced works and ensure this year’s festival runs smoothly. They are seeking volunteers to start as soon as possible until 27 October.

Following support wanted:

• General / Stewarding — Stewarding, ushering and invigilation of festival events and exhibitions.
• Reception Desk — Registration & Information. The first point of contact for Public and Guests. Ability to work calmly under pressure and remain professional at all times. We’re looking for those with good communication skills, and passion for Indigenous film and grassroots film festivals.
• Events Production / Runner — Screenings & events set-up and take-down, food runs.
• Marketing, Promotion & Data Capture — Promotional support, e-marketing, social media support, distribution of marketing materials, requesting feedback from audiences, inputting audience data. (Eventbrite, YouTube, Mailchimp, Instagram, Twitter, FB, Survey Monkey).
• Photography / Documentation — Documenting events, films and exhibitions through photography and video. Camera experience is essential, as well as your own professional equipment.
• Admin — Assisting festival organisers with general festival admin including mail-outs, inputting data and collating information. (gdocs & spreadsheets).
• Hospitality — Looking after guests and sponsors on arrival at XYZ Grays Inn Road, registering them and providing them with all information they may require. You need to be friendly, approachable and calm under pressure.

Food and travel expenses (within zones 1-6) are covered during festival dates.

Ideal candidates are discrete, with personal and professional knowledge and awareness of Indigenous communities (artistic, cultural, social). Speakers of other, or Indigenous languages, including Welsh, Irish, Scottish or Manx are likely to relate to the revitalisation of languages impacted by colonisation and featured in many films.

How to apply:

If you’re interested in volunteering, 100% can commit and start immediately, please email CV to nativespiritfilms@gmail.com with subject header NATIVE SPIRIT FEST VOLUNTEER, tell us about yourself, your interest in Indigenous cinema, and your availability now – 27th October.

The closing date for this position is 20/10/2024 at 23:59