Production Lead

Production Lead
Contract: Fixed Term contract to 31/3/26, potentially permanent pending confirmation of continued funding.
Salary: £35,500 – £43,000 per annum (pro rata), plus benefits
Location: London, UK (Hybrid working and office based as required, with some travel across the UK)

About the Employer
Our client is the UK’s leading charity for film in education and the community. They provide screen industry careers information and advice, support young filmmakers and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching.

The charity also runs their annual Film Festival which enables more than 400,000 pupils to visit the cinema for free, and their Film Awards – the UK’s leading showcase for young filmmaking talent.

The core programme is free for UK state schools, colleges and other youth settings, thanks to support from the BFI, awarding National Lottery good cause funding, and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.

Their vision – Film enriches the life of every child and young person.
Their mission – To inspire and support young people to learn, and to realise their creative, cultural and career aspirations, through film and the moving image.

Role Summary

An exciting opportunity to join this organisation and to lead on the production of all audio-visual content for the UK’s foremost film education charity. Overseeing an in-house production team of six, the Production Lead will work closely with colleagues from across the organisation to identify, develop and deliver an exciting and wide range of content for classroom resources, social media channels and the organisation\’s website.

The role is initially available for a fixed term through to 31st March 2026, but may become permanent pending continuation of funding.

Main Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Joint Heads of Programme and Head of Marcomms to identify audio visual requirements in support of the charity\’sstrategy, including income generation.
• Lead on planning and allocation of work for a team of six, supporting on and leading projects as required.
• Oversee departmental production budget, and budget from commissioning departments, ensuring that expenditure is planned, tracked and evaluated.
• Plan for and manage freelancers in support of production activity as required.
• Manage Production Team, identifying where support, training and development are required to ensure a flexible approach to producing a diverse range of audio-visual content.
• Ensure that statutory regulations in the provision of film and media content are complied with (safeguarding and child protection, GDPR etc.).
• Ensure that all audio-visual content is legally compliant and rights are cleared for use on specified channels.
• Oversee production on key projects including the organisation\’s own Festival andAwards.
• Ensure thataudio-visual content for this organisation reflects the diversity of its audiences, including teachers, young people and children from under-represented backgrounds and communities.
• Any other reasonable duties assigned by the employer.

General Responsibilities:

• Commitment to quality internally and in all dealings with stakeholders including teachers, children and young people, industry partners, funders, supporters, parents and carers, and members of the public.
• Commitment and active participation in helping this organisationlive its EEDI values and ethos through everything it does.
• Contribute to long term planning to ensure growth in line with demand and resources.
• Contribute to the regular monitoring and evaluation of the organisation\’swork.

Person Specification:

Minimum Requirements:

• A minimum of two years’ experience of team management in a fast-moving production environment.
• Experience of audio-visual content production and post-production, including for social media.
• Extensive experience of working successfully and collaboratively with senior colleagues from across an organisation to plan and produce audio-visual content.
• Experience of managing individual project and departmental budgets.
• Good working knowledge of rights and compliance issues in relation to audio visual production.
• Confident, creative judgement, including experience of feeding back on briefs, scripts and edits, and taking responsibility for project sign-off and delivery.

Desirable:

• Experience of producing audio-visual content for an education and/or youth audience.
• Experience of editing audio-visual content using Premiere Pro.

Employee benefits:

• Annual Leave – 28 days (pro –rata), including 3 days to cover office closure between Christmas and New Year
• Additional long service holiday award – after 3 years, staff are awarded one extra day of holiday for each additional year worked, with the total entitlement capped at 35 days, i.e. on your 4thanniversary at Into Film your leave entitlement will rise to 29 days, on your 5thanniversary, your entitlement will go up by another day to 30 days etc.
• Pension – matched up to 5% of salary(2% above statutory employer contribution).
• Flexible working including compressed hours, job share etc. – all applications favourably considered, approval will be at the discretion of the employer.
• Enhanced parental/paternity/shared parental leave .
• Support for professional qualifications – money towards courses and/or study days, if relevant to role.
• Interest –free non –essential study loans.
• Interest –free bike/scooter/travelcard loan.
• Career break – up to 4 weeks unpaid leave, after 2 years’ service (at managers’ discretion).
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – 24/7 confidential wellbeing support, advice and guidance.
• Wisdom health cover – including £75 annual eye care cover, as well as health insurance (non –contributory, apart from employee tax contribution).
• BenefitHub portal – offering discounts on healthcare, wellbeing products, and lifestyle products and services.

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 the employer’s expense; employment is dependent upon this.

Closing: 9:00am, Monday 30th June 2025

Interested?

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