Volunteer Coordinator

Salary: £24,500 pro rata

Sheffield DocFest is looking for a Volunteer Coordinator to join the team for this year’s festival.

About Sheffield DocFest

Sheffield DocFest is the UK’s leading documentary festival and one of the world’s most influential markets for documentary projects. We champion and present the breadth of documentary form – film, television, immersive and art – in the vibrant city of Sheffield each June. We offer makers and audiences a place for inspiration, debate, development, learning and challenge. Our programming represents our core values – creativity, empathy, freedom, inclusivity and internationalism.

Sheffield DocFest is run by International Documentary Festival Sheffield, an independent registered charity (no.1184849).

Equal opportunities

Our jobs are like our festival, open to all. We believe that documentaries, and those working in the arts and in media – including ourselves – have a part to play in creating a society which is proud of its diversity and its multi-cultural heritage.

Our programme-centred approach to inclusiveness puts diversity at the forefront of its activity. Through the documentaries we showcase and the talent we develop, we aim to celebrate diversity, promote equality and challenge discrimination.

Equally, we are committed to providing a welcoming, accessible, inclusive and positive experience for all festival attendees, team members and volunteers – regardless of age, disability, sex, gender, sexuality, marital/civil partnership status, pregnancy/maternity/paternity, race, religion/belief, or socio-economic background. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident committed employer, supporting disabled people in the workplace. Sheffield DocFest is BFI Diversity standards approved, an organisation that encourages equality of opportunity and addresses under-representation in the screen industries.

About the role

The Volunteer Coordinator is responsible for liaising with all Festival teams to ensure the right support is in place pre-, during and post- Sheffield DocFest 2024. The Volunteer Coordinator will enable support to a number of people from a wide range of backgrounds and lived experience to ensure the volunteers have a highly positive and productive experience at the Festival. They vwill represent the DocCrew volunteer programme, which attracted more than 500 applications in 2023, to local charities and community groups as well as local and national universities.

Contract (fixed-term):

• 11 March to 5 April, 2 days p/w
• 8 April to 9 May, 3 days p/w
• 13 May to 7 June, Full-time
• Festival delivery period 10 to 19 June
• Total days: 52

Location: Sheffield and mixture of hybrid working online, remotely and in the office Requirement to be Sheffield-based from 8 April through to the end of the festival

Further information

Please read the full recruitment pack for further information about the role and details of how to apply.

The closing date for this position is 14/02/2024 at 12:00