LFF XR & Immersive Senior Production Coordinator

Salary: £31,293

The BFI are seeking an XR & Immersive Senior Production Coordinator to join their Festivals team for the 67^th BFI London Film Festival.

Fixed Term Contract: 04 July – 27 October 2023

We are seeking an XR & Immersive Senior Production Coordinator to join our Festivals team for the 67^th BFI London Film Festival. You will be working closely with the LFF XR & Immersive Production Manager, Festivals Producer and XR Programmer on LFF Expanded.

LFF Expanded is the BFI London Film Festival’s XR and Immersive Art strand, exploring   new forms of visual storytelling across virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, immersive audio and more.

Key responsibilities include:

• Take a lead role on the production and operational delivery of the Festival’s LFF Expanded programme
• Take a lead role in the delivery of the festival’s physical XR exhibition including staff scheduling and briefing, working alongside the festival’s production partners on the technical management of the exhibition, and acting as a venue-lead alongside leading on the delivery of any digital/online touch points.
• Support the XR and Immersive Production Manager and Festivals Producer by undertaking a range of event administration and data entry tasks, in an accurate and efficient manner

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Experience working in a cultural organisation or festival in a events or production role, including demonstrable experience of working with XR and immersive technologies.
• Sound knowledge of XR technologies, file formats and devices
• A passion for and working knowledge of, storytelling through immersive technology.
• A proactive and customer-focused approach, delivered within a best practice framework
• A forensic attention to detail with the ability to process and format large amounts of information into clear datasets

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

About the BFI

We are 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.

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.

Applications

Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be obtained by visiting http://www.bfi.org.uk/about-bfi/job-opportunities.

Please apply online via our jobs portal.

First interviews will be held on Monday 08 May 2023

The closing date for this position is 24/04/2023 at 23:59