Filmmaking Lead

About Into Film

Into Film is the UK’s leading charity for film in education. We provide screen industry careers information and advice, support and inspire young filmmakers, and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching. We work hard to live and breathe our values and strive to be an impactful, inclusive and inspirational organisation. We are fully committed to providing an inclusive, active listening culture that respects difference, in which staff are happy and proud to create a programme for the diverse society we work with.

Into Film operates a hybrid working policy with offices in London, Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh and Salford. We are open to flexible working and offer staff a health plan.

Role Summary

The Filmmaking Lead is the central point both externally and internally facing for Into Film’s Filmmaking programme, this includes the BFI funded Young Creatives programme and Into Film’s increasingly successful Every Child a Filmmaker campaign and the multiple projects arising plus other externally funded projects as they arise. Within Into Film this role is responsible for feeding expertise and experience of filmmaking into the operational plan for Filmmaking and then ensuring the plan is carried out by Into Film staff guiding, advising and linking them to the individuals, organisations and partners in the world of filmmaking. Externally, the Filmmaking Lead will hold some key relationships in addition to those held by the Joint Heads of Programmes and the Director.

The Filmmaking Lead will oversee the online, website and other content that supports teachers, schools, youth organisations and young people ensuing they can access what they need to be on the path to filmmaking. Into Film’s support and activities for young people will have a focus on those underserved and underrepresented. Proactive fundraising will be part of this role. Owing to the nature of the role, occasional weekend and extended working hours are required, along with regular travel to designated regions and occasional travel elsewhere in the UK. 

Main Responsibilities:

• As directed by the Joint Heads of Programmes, plan and support the implementation of the Filmmaking plan through colleagues, partners and supporters. 
• To be the point of contact and relationship lead for key filmmaking individuals and organisations to support the delivery of the programmes, including a focus on diversity, representation and Equity,Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EEDI). 
• Lead the Filmmaking project teams-leading filmmaking activity across the organisation, with direction from the Director of Programmes and support from the Joint Head of Programmes, to devise and implement a delivery model, setting clear outcomes and striving to meet agreed targets and impacts. 
• Lead and work with colleagues to coordinate the creation and promotion of filmmaking resources (for educators and young people), teacher and other educators training events and courses and regular competitions to stimulate filmmaking.  
• Collaborate with colleagues in Marcomms to embed and promote the filmmaking offer across all communication channels, including social media. 
• Manage or organise the management of the Film of the Month (or similar) ‘always on’ competitions, partnerships and themed competitions and the Into Film Awards filmmaking entries, ensuring the opportunity is well publicised with an EEDI focus, that entries are monitored and judged against with appropriate criteria and that the winners are used as inspiration for future competitions. 
• Build partnerships with informal youth groups to stimulate and incentivise filmmaking. 
• Be instrumental in fundraising for more filmmaking support (from trusts, foundations, charitable funders and input into corporate partnership proposals) and for devising and implementing projects arising all with a focus on reaching underrepresented and underserved young people.
• Under the direction of the Director of Programmes and with the support of the Joint Heads of Programmes, lead the devising of Into Film’s filmmaking delivery model to include robust outcomes including learning outcomes. 
• Lead funder relationships, reporting on progress and producing final evaluation reports as needed.  
• Oversee (with other key specialist teams like Product and Technology and Marcomms) the development of our online Filmmaking Hub (for educators and for young people) and maintain content. 
• Select and curate youth made filmmaking content for an annual showreel highlighting a range of diverse, representative stories. 
• Add youth made films to IF+ Into Film Shorts YouTube channel, other online platforms and submit films to appropriate international youth film festivals. 
• Utilise CRM to input and analyse data, creating dashboards and reports.  

General Responsibilities:

• Commitment to quality internally and in all dealings with the public, members, teachers, children and young people, partners, funders, supporters etc.
• Contribute to long term planning to ensure growth in line with demand and resources
• Contribute to the regular monitoring and evaluation of the Into Film’s work
• Commitment to equality of opportunity in line with Into Film’s Equal Opportunities Policy
• Any other reasonable duties assigned by Into Film

Person Specification:

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience, knowledge and understanding of young people and filmmaking across the four UK nations and how Into Film can/will complement and support existing and new provision. 
• Experience of project management, leading teams to deliver projects using strong collaborative skills ensuring close working across Into Film.  
• Knowledge and experience of successful participatory filmmaking with young people (Under 18) and how to involve underrepresented and underserved groups.
• Significant experience of fundraising and devising and managing the variety of projects that arise from success in this area. 
• Experience of overseeing filmmaking competitions to include devising judging criteria, moderation and selection against criteria. 
• Experience of creating, sustaining relationships with organisations and individuals providing support and guidance to organisations and partners to run filmmaking projects with young people. 
• Experience of leading filmmaking projects with young people, to include a detailed knowledge of the filmmaking process. 
• Leading a creative approach to encouraging organisations who work with young people to make films, collaborating with colleagues and external partners to create workable, realistic filmmaking activities and engagement with the programme. 
• Experience of creating rigorous approach to project design and evaluation to ensure all projects are impactful with set outcomes being achieved and projects improving through the feedback cycle. 
• Awareness and understanding of CRM systems and back end website editing 
• A love and knowledge of film

All employees regularly working with children and member data are required to undertake and maintain enhanced DBS clearance (and/or Access NI check or Disclosure Scotland check, depending on working location), acquired at Into Film’s expense; employment is dependent upon this.

At Into Film, we use Applied for our recruitment. Applied aims to overcome unconscious bias in recruiting. Instead of using your CV, we'll be asking you to answer questions to test skills needed for the role. The responses are then anonymised, and reviewed in a random order by members of our team.

The Applied platform also asks some demographic questions before you start your application. We at Into Film never see the responses to these demographic questions with your application. We only see summary statistics to help us check if our candidate pool is balanced and if everyone has an equal chance to get hired irrespective of their background. If you prefer, you can easily opt out of answering these questions.