Senior Curator of Fiction Film – BFI National Archive

Salary: £46,362 - £54,762

The BFI seeks a Senior Curator of Fiction Film to join the BFI National Archive’s Curatorial department on a permanent basis.

This is a key role in the BFI’s Programme directorate, comprising the BFI National Archive, BFI Southbank, London Film Festival, Sight and Sound, Distribution and Blu-ray/DVD teams.

Key responsibilities

• To be the BFI’s lead advocate and accountable for the fiction film collection of the BFI National Archive (comprising predominantly British films, but includes a significant number of international titles). This will include being a high profile member of the BFI’s Programme team and actively presenting and representing the collection within the BFI, to the general public and to external partners including the film industry, academia and the media.
• In accordance with the BFI collection policy, to develop and lead on an agreed programme of contemporary and other acquisitions into the BFI National Archive.

Experience & skills

• Educated to degree level or a demonstrable level of equivalent experience and knowledge.
• A demonstrable track record of writing about, programming work by or developing strong working relationships with filmmakers and cultural practitioners from under-represented ethnicities.

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, both of non-white ethnicity and/or those who identify as D/deaf and disabled.

Based at Stephen Street, 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.

For full details and to apply, browse BFI opportunities. 

First interviews will be held in the week commencing 17 May 2021.

The closing date for this position is 05/05/2021 at 23:59