LFF Guest Team lead

Closing date for applications: 23:59 on Monday 07 April

Interviews: week commencing Monday 14 April

Salary: £34,602 per annum

Fixed Term Contract: 12 May 2025 – 07 November 2025

Do you have experience coordinating guests or managing talent at events or festivals?

We are looking for a Guest Team Lead who, working closely with the Filmmaker and Industry Services Manager Festival Director and Guest Team colleagues, the Guest Team Lead will play a vital role in delivering a high-quality guest experience at the Festival.

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:

• To be a key liaison regarding guest attendance and arrangements for a select number of sales agents and film distribution companies with films represented in the gala and special presentation sections.
• To oversee guest invitation process and arrangements for all films in the festival, with assistance from the Guest Coordinators and Guest Assistants. Ensuring all travel arrangements, screening schedules, ticketing and all other details are sent to guests and/or rights holders in a timely and meticulous manner.
• Ensuring guest travel and accommodation is delivered on budget, tracking projected spends across all guest costs.
• To input data concerning visiting filmmaker guests onto the established databases and ensure all amendments and updated information are inputted on a regular basis.

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Significant experience in guest coordination or talent management working in film festivals, publicity or events.
• Knowledge of the international film industry and the UK distribution scene is desirable.
• Experience in team leadership and delegation.
• Knowledge of financial systems and administration.
• Organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and to manage and meet changing deadlines.

A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description via the Apply button.

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 first interview 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.