LFF volunteers coordinator

Closing date for applications: Monday 20th May 2024

Salary: £29,748 per annum

Fixed term contract: 19th August – 1st November 2024

Hours: Full-time, 41 hours per week (including 1 hour lunch break)

Interviews: Week beginning 27th May 2024

Help us make the BFI London Film Festival shine as a volunteers coordinator.

We are looking for a Volunteers Coordinator to join our Festivals team for the 68th BFI London Film Festival to support on all aspects of administration and organisation of volunteer resource at the festival.

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

Key responsibilities

• Assess volunteer applications, shortlisting and interview new volunteers where necessary. 
• Liaise with festival departments to understand their needs and to provide details of volunteers assigned to their events.  
• Help raise staff awareness of the role and the function of volunteers. 
• Ensure there is appropriate support and training for volunteers. 
• Support on the process of organising volunteer rotas and update in timely manner. 

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Demonstrable and significant previous administrative experience gained within a cultural organisation in a similar role. 
• Demonstrable organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and to manage and meet deadlines. 
• Demonstrable skill and experience in information and data management. 
• The ability to build effective relationships with key contacts across BFI and stakeholder organisations, and to communicate effectively and tactfully with stakeholders at all levels. 
• Computer literacy and confidence in working with Microsoft Office - particularly Excel.

A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description by clicking 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.  

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.