HippFest Outreach and Engagement Coordinator (Freelance)

Box; London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic role for a Freelance Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at HippFest, Scotland's premier festival of silent film. Overseeing community engagement, the successful candidate will manage outreach events and collaborate with local partners to enhance the festival's impact. This position offers mainly remote work with necessary mobility across the Falkirk area.

Qualifications

• Highly committed and passionate about community engagement.
• Pro-active and collaborative approach essential.
• Experience in managing outreach programs and events preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage a program of outreach events.
• Build relationships with community partners and stakeholders.
• Lead communication with Festival Village venues and manage logistics.

Skills

Community Engagement

Creativity

Collaboration

Job description

HippFest Outreach and Engagement Coordinator (Freelance)

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• Temporary contract, 1 Sep 2025 – 31 Aug 2026. The core dates for HippFest 2026 are Wednesday 18 – Sunday 22 March 2026, plus key events on other dates.
• Mostly remote working, but there is the option to access a workstation hub at Council offices. The Outreach and Engagement Co-ordinator must attend meetings and undertake stakeholder engagement across the Falkirk area. It is therefore essential that they are mobile across the Falkirk area, ideally with a full driving licence.

This role is vital to achieving the engagement and outreach ambitions of the Festival, with a focus on local integration during core dates and building HippFest’s reputation within the local community. You will nurture and build relationships with a wide range of community partners, local businesses and stakeholders. You will secure a base for the Festival ‘Hub’ in Bo’ness and recruit/liaise with hosts for the Festival ‘Village’, leading on the management of and communication with all Festival Village venues. In tandem with this you will devise and manage an inspiring programme of HippFest outreach events and added value activity in the Hippodrome and across the local community, within allocated budgets, including developing fun public and community engagement workshops, the HippFest Friday Night Gala afterparty, and progressing and ideating events for the Youth Engagement programme for school age children and young people.

Person specifications

This is a great role for a highly committed, collaborative and creative person passionate about engaging the community with HippFest and determined to deliver an engaging grass-roots programme of Festival-adjacent activity. This is a pro-active, outward facing role and the successful candidate will be a vital member of the team, contributing to the continuing success and development of this much-loved and internationally respected film festival.

HippFest is Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music, centred in and inspired by Scotland’s oldest cinema, featuring exceptional screenings, commissions, workshops, community events and touring.

The closing date for this position is 21/07/2025 at 11:00