LFF Guest Transport & Logistics Team Leader

Salary: £32,952 per annum

The BFI is recruiting for a Guest Transport & Logistics Team Leader ahead of the 2024 BFI London Film Festival.

The BFI is looking for a Guest Transport & Logistics Team Leader to work within a busy team responsible for facilitating a first-class ground transport service for Festival filmmakers, VIP guests, staff and Festival deliveries.

The BFI London Film Festival (LFF) runs an Industry & Professional Programme of screenings, events, networking and informal marketplace for around 3,500 film industry professionals alongside the main public festival.

This is a full-time, fixed term contract role running from 16 September – 01 November 2024.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Filmmaker & Industry Services Manager to implement a creative and efficient ground transport strategy, which effectively balances the needs of the Festival and operational constraints.
• Ensure the Guest Transport & Logistics Team engages with database systems in an efficient manner, placing an emphasis on accurate and comprehensive record-keeping.
• Coordinate induction and training for the Guest Transport Coordinators, in-line with BFI HR procedures and Festival policies. Oversee the Guest Transport & Logistics Coordinators’ daily activities across ground transport bookings, internal and external communication and general administration.
• Ensure the Guest Transport Team engages with database systems in an efficient manner, placing an emphasis on accurate and comprehensive record-keeping.

The BFI is looking for candidates with:

• Demonstrable experience of working in similar Festival Guest Services, Hospitality environments or in a high-pressure events logistics role.
• Experience of working on multiple medium or large-scale Festivals.
• Experience coordinating team workflows and overseeing staff in a busy environment.
• Excellent IT skills and ability to manage databases and systems.
• Experience of monitoring and tracking delivery costs and partnership contributions.

A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description.

About the BFI

The BFI is a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow.

At the BFI you’ll enjoy benefits such as excellent support for working parents, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and additional paid time off at Christmas), tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.

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 Black and Global Majority. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.

Further information

For full details about the role and to apply online, browse BFI jobs & opportunities.

Interviews will be held in week commencing 5 August 2024.

The closing date for this position is 25/07/2024 at 23:59