Outreach Coordinator

Salary: £1,000 fixed fee

The Birmingham Indian Film Festival (BIFF) is looking for a freelance, part-time, temporary Outreach Coordinator in Birmingham.

The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) and Birmingham Indian Film Festival (BIFF) together make up Europe’s largest Indian film festival. Over the last 10 years we have garnered a reputation as the ‘Punk Rock of Indian Film festivals’, presenting a cutting-edge selection of the very best new independent cinema from the Indian subcontinent and its worldwide diaspora.

The Role

Contract: March 2021 – May 2021 (part-time, flexible and remote working) // dates are subject to

change due to project’s deadline

Salary: £1,000 fixed fee

Duties

• To promote the festival by face-to-face engagement, giving out town/city specific festival flyers (provided by the festival) to local communities, promote on social media activity, online, and other marketing and PR activities
• Provide the selected communities specific creative and engagement opportunities as part of this project in the form of talks, discussions, Q&As around the screenings in Birmingham
• Publicise the film festival through flyers (provided by the festival), social media and networking with residents, local groups and organisations
• To support the festival team in the development, dissemination and collection of audience evaluation forms on the project which will help inform and support future activity

Personal Qualifications

• An energetic approach to and understanding of the need for communication with a wide range of partners, stakeholders, teams and internal and external colleagues
• Minimum 1 experience within a cinema, film festival or other cultural capacity in a outreach role
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills including numeracy, literacy and IT fluency
• Understanding and awareness of a diverse range of cultures and traditions; enthusiasm to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds

To apply

For more info & to apply: please send a CV and cover letter at info@londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk with subject: Birmingham Outreach Coordinator.

The closing date for this position is 21/02/2021 at 23:59