Closing date for applications: Wednesday 27 November 2024
Salary: £31,326 per annum
Fixed term contract: From 13 January until 04 April 2025
First interviews will be held on: Thursday 12 November or Friday 13 November 2024
Be the voice behind the scenes at BFI Flare, delivering impactful PR for one of the BFI’s most inclusive festivals.
We are looking for a Press Coordinator to work as part of the BFI Festivals PR team in the delivery of a multi-tiered publicity campaign for the BFI Flare, providing effective day-to-day PR and press office support.
BFI Flare is our long-running LGBTQIA+ festival, with a growing audience in London and on BFI Player, and one of the most inclusive film events of the BFI’s annual calendar.
Key responsibilities include:
* Support the BFI Flare Press Team’s PR events, including programme launch, ensuring venue logistics, invitations, etc. are smooth running and effective.
* Oversee all aspects of BFI Flare Press Accreditation, this will involve liaising with a broad cross section of the media.
* Pitching editorial opportunities to press focusing on agreed titles and themes to secure media coverage
* Manage a high volume of press enquiries on a day-to-day basis
What we're looking for
* Previous administrative experience in a similar PR or comms role in a film industry or Film Festivals environment
* Experience in information and data management.
* Ability to build effective relationships with key contacts across BFI and stakeholder organisations, and to communicate effectively and tactfully with stakeholders at all levels.
* Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and to manage and meet deadlines.
* An interest in film and moving image culture (including an interest in LGBTQIA+ film and/or culture).
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.
Depending on the volume of applications, you may be asked to complete a small task or attend a pre-interview screening call to further to assist the hiring team in shortlisting for this role. In this instance, interview dates may be subject to change.
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.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.