Skills Events Coordinator

Box; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization seeks a skilled Coordinator to support the Skills Events programme, including the BFI Careers Festival. The role requires coordinating events, managing stakeholders, and collecting data to ensure successful execution and reporting. If you have strong experience in event coordination and teamwork, we encourage you to apply.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of using databases and collecting/collating data.
• Proven experience of effective and supportive team working.
• Experience of coordinating programme activities for events.

Responsibilities

• Support coordination of the Skills Events programme and BFI Careers Festival.
• Liaise with venues and manage event logistics.
• Record and collate key data on each event.

Skills

Database management

Team collaboration

Event coordination

Basic finance procedures

Job description

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 Academyevents 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.

• 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

Person specifications

• 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.

First interviews will be held on Friday 04 July 2025

The closing date for this position is 23/06/2025 at 23:59