Legal & Business Affairs Manager

Salary: £71,262 - £84,204 per annum

The British Film Institute is looking for a Legal & Business Affairs Manager.

About the role

Working in our busy Business Affairs department and reporting directly to the Director of Legal and Business Affairs. You will be principally responsible for negotiating, drafting and reviewing legal documentation, and providing legal and business affairs advice and support to the BFI’s Film Fund. This Fund supports creativity, innovation, new talent and ‘cutting edge’ feature film making.

You will be a qualified film and media lawyer, with demonstrable expertise in film financing, production and distribution deals. You will have the ability to meet deadlines in a commercial and dynamic environment and to handle a spread of projects across the range of the Film Fund’s activities.

As well as this, you will have excellent drafting skills and relevant PQE in commercial and entertainment law, sound knowledge of copyright and contract law and strong and demonstrable negotiation skills.

We support diversity and inclusion, and as an organisation recognise that we need to address under representation within our teams. As such we strongly welcome and encourage applicants from our under-represented groups; who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are ethnically diverse.

We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements. How we are doing, including our pay gaps can be found on our website at http://www.bfi.org.uk

We operate a hybrid working model at the BFI. Exact working arrangements for this role are to be agreed with the hiring manager.

You will enjoy benefits such as our pension scheme, excellent support for working parents, 28-33 days annual leave, tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.

Further details about the post can be obtained by visiting http://www.bfi.org.uk/about-bfi/job-opportunities.

How to Apply

To apply please find the job listing on our website, click the Apply Online button and complete our online application form, including a supporting statement regarding what you bring to the role and how you meet the criteria of the person specification plus our completed diversity & inclusion monitoring form.

Please note that the BFI is not a licensed sponsor for VISAs and as such if applying for this role you must already have the Right to Work in the UK.

If you experience any technical difficulties or require any support due to a disability to complete our application process please contact the People team by email: opportunities@bfi.org.uk or by telephone: 0207 9575465 during our office hours  (Monday – Friday 09:30 – 18:00) who will be happy to help.

If you are an internal applicant working at the BFI please apply via ‘MyBFIAccount’ to submit an application.

First interviews will be held in the week beginning 21 November 2022.

If you have any questions or want to discuss the post prior to applying please contact me to arrange a chat Clare.Coulter@bfi.org.uk.

The closing date for this position is 07/11/2022 at 23:59