Film programmes and placements administrator

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 18th February 2026

Salary: £25,850

Location: London

Contract: Fixed Term to 31 March 2027, Full time, 35 Hours per week

Working pattern: Hybrid (min 2 days per week in the office)

Want to help shape the future of UK film talent? Join ScreenSkills as Film Programmes and Placements Administrator, supporting industry-leading trainee schemes that connect emerging talent with real opportunities on film productions across the UK.

The ScreenSkills Film Team works with the UK film industry to help ensure it has the workforce it needs to thrive. Film Trainee Finder, Film Forward and Film Make a Move are key programmes that ScreenSkills provides and are some of the best known and most widely accessed programmes. They place cohorts of carefully selected trainees and beneficiaries with productions for on-the-job training and support underrepresented groups to progress their careers.

In addition, following on from short course Continuing Professional Development (CPD) interventions selected beneficiaries are increasingly found paid placements on film productions who have paid into the skills funds. This role will support the Film Programmes and Placements Lead in securing these placements and following up on all the associated paperwork and tracking.

The Film Programmes and Placements Administrator will be an integral part of the team, working closely with the Film Programmes and Placements Lead and the Film Team Manager, as well as the Film CPD team, to deliver and ensure the smooth running of the department's programmes and placements

What you'll be doing

As part of the team, your role will include the following:

• Be the first point of contact for all general phone and email enquiries related to Trainee Finder and all other Film programmes, dealing with them in a professional and timely manner
• Be an integral part of the annual ScreenSkills Trainee Finder recruitment process
• Support Film Programmes and Placements Lead with this industry-respected programme to meet productions’ crewing needs including all paperwork, contracts and follow-ups to tight deadlines
• Manage paperwork for placements including grant applications, interviews, induction, training, contracts and placements as well as follow-up.
• Manage Film and CPD (Continuing Professional Development) paid placements paperwork including upkeep of cohort booklets, production interviews, placements, progression plans and production invoicing.
• Manage placement tracker and database spreadsheets and assist with reporting placement progress to the wider team/company
• Assist in planning and delivering training, industry events and networking opportunities for programme participants throughout the year, including booking travel and accommodation
• Working with Film colleagues to track outcomes and longer-term individual career succession of individuals taking part in Trainee Finder, other programmes
• Assisting in maintaining a relevant and up-to-date database of industry contacts, including inputting communication updates on ScreenSkills’ CRM platform
• In liaison with the Marcomms team ensuring that the Film-related sections of ScreenSkills’ website are up to date, creating a positive and accurate experience for users
• Assisting the Film Programmes and Placements Lead with maintaining trainee and alumni engagement, offering practical support where required.
• Liaison with Marcomms/productions to provide release date info, trainees on productions, and talking to productions to provide on set stills of trainees and production stills

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Excellent written and communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Accuracy of monitoring and maintaining accurate records during the Trainee Finder recruitment process
• Time management
• Proficiency of Microsoft Office 365, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and Zoom functionalities

ScreenSkills offers benefits including:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• EAP - Access to financial, physical and mental wellbeing support
• Access to Reward Gateway – popular retailer discounts
• Season Ticket Loan
• Eye Care scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life Assurance

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application & selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments approach. So, we encourage you to get in touch with us if you require anything jobs@screenskills.com.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.