Rights & Contracts Manager

Salary: £40,455 - £47,583 per annum, pro-rata

The BFI is looking for a Rights & Contracts Manager to join their Rights & Contracts department on a fixed-term basis until April 2025.

The Rights & Contracts Manager will work to meet the developing needs of the BFI across multiple areas including rights research,  management,  clearance, acquisitions, restoration projects, distribution, new ventures, and as directed by the Head of Rights & Contracts.

Fixed Term Contract: until 31 April 2025
Part Time: 24.6 hours/3 days per week (including one hour lunch break)

Key responsibilities include:

• Research, advise and report with regard to BFI owned or controlled, and third-party, film rights and clearances, including contributor rights and under guild and union agreements, and implications and applicability of copyright laws.
• Assist with negotiations where required. Prepare summaries and reports as required.
• To maintain accurate rights information in the BFI’s rights management systems, including deal entry and working with all team members, Royalty Accounting, and other BFI divisions as required.
• To assist with the on-going development of the BFI’s rights management system, to enhance functionality in line with business needs and integration with systems across the BFI to support and facilitate the BFI’s activities.

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Substantial training in one or more areas directly relevant to the role for example in copyright law, contract law, film distribution.
• Excellent legal drafting skills.
• Demonstrable experience in negotiating and drafting rights sales, distribution or acquisition agreements.
• Significant experience in film or television rights management in an ‘in-house’ legal, business affairs, contracts, or equivalent department in a film, television or distribution company or sales agent.

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

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.

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

Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be obtained by visiting our website.

First interviews will be held on 24 or 25 July 2025

Second interviews will be held on w/c 29 July 2024

The closing date for this position is 17/07/2024 at 23:59