Skills events coordinator

Closing date for applications: Monday 23 June 2025

First interviews: Friday 04 July 2025 (second interview dates TBC).

Salary: £31,326 - £33,135

The BFI is looking for an Events Coordinator to join the our Skills & Workforce Development team.

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.

The Coordinator will support the development and delivery of the new Skills Events programme, including the new BFI Careers Festival. This will also include one-off industry skills events and seminars, regular Film Academy events activity, and will support the BFI to establish a new annual Careers Festival. The post holder will also need to help record and collate key data on each event, including total audience attendance, demographics and attendee experience.

Key responsibilities include:

• Work closely with the Skills Team and relevant external stakeholders to identify a small annual programme of bespoke skills seminars/events, with a view to piloting approaches and testing sector appetite for a larger scale skills conference
• Liaise with venues (internal and external), hospitality, and technical teams in a timely fashion to ensure event bookings and logistics are managed in line with event timetables
• Work closely with the Film Academy team to coordinate an annual event showcasing Film Academy alumni aged 16 to 25 years old, working within the parameters of the BFI’s safeguarding policy
• Support the coordination of the dedicated festival programme for the BFI Careers Festival including timetabling, booking speakers for talks, masterclasses and festival contributors

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Demonstrable experience of using databases and collecting/collating data.
• Proven experience of effective and supportive team working and working cross-departmentally in a busy environment.
• Demonstrable experience of coordinating programme activities/schedules for events and managing concurrent work streams.
• Experience of basic finance procedures such as raising and processing purchase orders and setting up new suppliers on a finance system.

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

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service) + bank holidays + the option to buy up to 5 extra days of annual leave
• Additional paid time off between Christmas and New Year
• BFI pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
• BFI Childcare Scheme, where we contribute to childcare costs for children up to the age of 14
• Enhanced pay for Maternity & Paternity leave
• Complimentary tickets to BFI Southbank & IMAX screenings and events
• Free BFI Player subscription + discount on BFI DVDs, books, merchandise, and film tickets

Plus many more, which can be found in our Working at the BFI information pack on our website.

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.

Depending on the volume of applications, you may be asked to complete a small task or attend a pre-interview screening call to further to assist the hiring team in shortlisting for this role. In this instance, interview dates may be subject to change.

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