LFF accessibility coordinator

Closing date for applications: is 23:59 on Tuesday 3 June 2025

Salary: £31,326 per annum

Interviews: Will be held in the week commencing 23 June 2025

Fixed-term contract: 04 August 2025 – 31 October 2025

Help shape one of the UK’s most exciting cultural events and ensure it’s accessible to everyone.

We are looking for an Accessibility Coordinator to identify barriers to access for people with disabilities, ensuring inclusivity and enabling everyone to participate in the Festival as fully as possible, and to support on the planning, research and delivery of the Festival’s access provision across screenings and events.

BFI London Film Festival (LFF) runs an Industry & Professional Programme of screenings, events, networking and informal marketplace for around 3,500 film industry professionals alongside the main public festival.

Key responsibilities include:

• Oversee delivery of the Festival’s in venue accessible screenings and events, in close collaboration with the Festivals Production & Events Manager.
• To work closely with the Festivals Production & Events Manager and the BFI’s Diversity & Inclusion team to implement best-practices into the festival and provide recommendations for future editions.
• To liaise with festival guests and delegates regarding their access needs, having a detailed discussion with the person as early as possible around what their access requirements are for the festival and potential solutions.
• Working with each department to assist in booking any equipment required and arranging access support where needed. For example, ramps, wheelchairs, professional sign language interpreters, captioners, creative coaches, support workers.

We are looking for candidates who have:

• A strong, demonstrable passion for about making sure events are accessible for all
• Significant experience of working in a film festival or similar high-volume cultural events environment or arts organisation in a similar role
• Active knowledge of current best practice around access provision
• A demonstrable commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and its practical application and integration in the work environment
• 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.

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 place at the first stage selection process to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.

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.