Project Lead – Action for Freelancers
Job Overview:
Action for Freelancers (AfF) is a pan industry collaboration to support freelancers within the UK television industry. It brings together expertise from across the broadcasters, trade bodies, industry organisations, freelancers, and producers. The proposed collaboration comes against a backdrop of heightened concern about the wellbeing of freelancers working in TV and film.
Its aim is to take a more holistic approach to helping safeguard the wellbeing of our skilled and valuable freelance workforce, consolidating and amplifying existing work being done in the industry in this area to avoid duplication, whilst also pooling resources to bring fresh thinking to the problems – and focusing on delivering specific, tangible outputs.
The amount of contract work available remains a crucial factor in supporting a vibrant freelance community, against the backdrop of a significant fall in global production. We can work together to address the impact of reduced work on wellbeing, including by exploring 5 key areas; Working Conditions, Recruitment, Skills & Training, Mental Health & Wellbeing, and Communication.
Main Responsibilities:
1. Central project management – including ensuring that regular meetings with core group of industry stakeholders, workstreams, workstream leaders etc, take place, as well as clear and consistent communication among the membership.
2. Workstream accountability – help drive the different workstreams covering the key areas above and convene groups of experts to ensure a true, pan industry collaboration including ensuring they set objectives & outputs, and keep pace to deliver milestones.
3. To lead, manage and support the implementation of an updated Freelance Charter, revising and relaunching the Freelance Charter being a key deliverable.
4. In collaboration with ScreenSkills, explore developing The Freelancer Hub to bring together all relevant resources, support services, and other initiatives in one place.
5. Working with the British Screen Forum to explore initiating a review to assess how other countries around the world approach the legal engagement status of their creative freelancers.
6. AfF membership management – including identifying future participants for the wider stakeholder group, plus managing relationships with members and partners.
7. Funding & payments – including overseeing processes for funding from contributing parties, as well as freelancer and supplier payments.
8. Comms & events – including embedding of outputs across the industry, as they are produced, and participating in key events such as industry festivals and conferences. This will include regular updates to the wider AfF stakeholder group and coordinating comms to the industry about the actions and progress of AfF.
Essential experience and skills:
1. Experienced TV freelancer who has worked on scripted or non-scripted productions.
2. In depth knowledge and/or experience of the UK Broadcast TV freelancing community and ways of working in the independent sector, with detailed knowledge of freelancer issues within media production, specifically TV.
3. Strong contacts and networks within the field of TV production and/or evidence of being able to develop such networks.
4. People leadership skills, including effective communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate and influence effectively with a variety of stakeholders and audiences, using a wide range of communication channels.
5. Excellent organisation, time management, and networking skills.
6. Sound editorial judgement, strategic thinking and problem-solving; working effectively under pressure.
7. Experience working on complex projects involving the management of deadlines, multiple stakeholders, multiple project strands and task prioritisation.
8. Experience working in a Project Management (or similarly aligned) role within a production / independent production company / broadcast media group or broadcaster.
9. Awareness of Competition Law – given the pan-industry nature of the role, there will be a responsibility on the successful candidate to ensure appropriate management of meetings and engagement between the members, including compliance with competition law [based on advice and parameters provided by the members].
10. Experience researching, organising, and summarising complex data and a proven ability to convert such data into effective, clear messaging and reporting.
11. Experience developing and delivering successful programmes and projects in a UK Broadcast TV environment.
12. Evidence of championing work in diversity, equity and inclusion, mental health and/or wellbeing.
Practicalities:
1. This role will be an initial 1 year contract for 4 days/week. Will consider flexible working arrangements, job share and hybrid working with comprehensive compensation subject to working hours and the required skills and experience.
2. 4 day per week salary – £73-83k per annum with a full-time equivalent salary of £85-95k.
3. The successful candidate will be engaged on a contract/consultant basis with the Film and TV Charity. The day-to-day work will be overseen and managed by the pan-industry collaboration group supporting.
4. The role will be hybrid with some remote working and the office is based at the Film and TV Charity’s office in Golden Square, London.
5. Please send your CV and a covering letter explaining why you are a good fit for this role (in no more than 500 words) by 10am on Mon 14th October. Please include your availability on your application.
6. You can also submit your application in video or audio form, if you would prefer. Please send this to us via password-protected WeTransfer link or a Dropbox (or other cloud storage provider) folder to support@thetalentmanager.com with a subject title of Job application: Project Lead - Action For Freelancers.
7. Interviews will be via Zoom (or another video calling platform or telephone if you prefer) the w/c 21 October.
Data sharing:
The role requires work across a pan-industry collaboration group [including BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV, and Sky]. We will therefore be sharing your application with these parties during the applications process. All our partners are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with their own policies.
For more details on The Film and TV Charity’s candidate privacy notice please visit https://filmtvcharity.org.uk/.
Definition of freelancer (according to the Freelance Charter):
An individual who is engaged on fixed term projects and is not an employee of, or committed to a specific engager (business) in the long term - Freelancer Self Employed, Freelancer PAYE, Sole Traders, those legitimately engaged through a Personal Service Company, Limited Company or Agency.
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