About us:
In the last two years, new leadership at ScreenSkills has reshaped the organisation and refocused our strategy on the screen industries, clarifying our purpose and value. Our mission is to lead on building skills and talent, creating a properly inclusive workforce to power sustainable growth for the UK's screen industries.

Role purpose:
The Film Team is a Department within ScreenSkills that works with the UK film industry to help ensure it has the workforce it needs to thrive. This is paid for by voluntary contributions by the Industry (the Film Skills Fund) and a 4 year lottery funded programme (the BFI's Future Film Skills Programme).

Film Production Liaison Coordinator will support the Film Production Liaison Manager and other Film team colleagues in promoting, collecting and tracking financial contributions to, the Film Skills fund.

All films wholly or partially produced in the UK are asked to contribute to the Film Skills Fund, which is then used to directly support the next generation of film talent in the UK, through a range of workforce development activities. The Skills Fund is managed by ScreenSkills on behalf of the industry and is actively supported by DCMS, the BFI, Pact, the MPA and BECTU.

Based in London and working on UK-wide projects, the Film Production Liaison Coordinator works with the Film team and colleagues across ScreenSkills to provide a proactive and responsive service, ensuring all productions are aware of FSF (Film Skills Fund), how to contribute to it and the breadth of its associated benefits and opportunities, as well reporting regularly to key stakeholders on Skills FSF status.

The Film Production Liaison Coordinator will be the first point of contact for enquiries from productions regarding the FSF and will advise productions on a range of topics including: what the SFS is; how the SFS payment is calculated; whether a production is eligible to contribute; how and when payments can be made; what benefits are available to SFS-paying productions; how l funds are used; and how the FSF is managed.

They will work with other Film team colleagues to regularly track relationships with productions and identify trends from FSF take-up, as well actively promoting FSF to productions as they are setting up.

Working closely with colleagues in partner agencies, including British Film Commission, BFI, Creative England, Creative Scotland, Ffilm Cymru, NI Screen and Film London, the Film Production Liaison Coordinator will support the Film team in ensuring a collaborative approach is taken to FSF promotion and collection. They will play a key role in the gathering of information and intelligence on production activity in the UK, working with partners to align and simplify the experience of contributing to, and drawing on, FSF.

Key responsibilities:

• Liaising with external partners to identify and track Film productions that are eligible to pay the Film Skills Fund across the UK;
• Providing a consistent and visible point of contact with productions to collect and record contributions to the FSF
• Liaising with productions to promote FSF and programmes;
• Processing FSF programme invoices for payment, and tracking and chasing payments as needed;
• Logging and tracking all FSF commitments and spend;
• Coordinating and preparing high-quality, accurate reports and documentation for sharing with wider groups of internal colleagues, and external partners and stakeholders, such as the Film Council and ScreenSkills relevant colleagues.
• Liaising with the Marketing & Communications team and using social media to help promote the FSF;
• Providing support and input to Film team colleagues in the wider promotion, tracking, researching and reporting of FSF and other film skills related activity.

Essential skills and experience and/or qualifications:
Educational Experience:

• A-Level, AS Level, Level 3 diploma, Level 3 NVQ

Work Related Experience:
• 3 - 5 Years - Experienced

Essential:
• Experience and knowledge of the Film industry and production timescales
• Understanding of skills funds principles and objectives
• Experience of logging and tracking financial data, plus invoicing and chasing payments
• Strong customer facing skills, providing a high standard of service
• Experience of working in a small busy team and managing a high workload
• Experience of working with senior individuals, both internally and externally
• A high standard of English, both written and spoken
• Accurate and confident numeracy skills, with attention to detail
• Degree of equivalent
• Excellent numeracy skills
• Personable and strong inter-personal skills

Preferred:
• Knowledge of the issues surrounding skills development in film
• Knowledge of current training and education policies
• Knowledge and understanding of the role of Sector Skills Councils
• Customer Services training

Other skills and attributes:
• Excellent IT skills including the ability to use all MS Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal guidance
• Website content management and social media tools

Corporate responsibilities:
• Take ownership of, and contribute to, internal and external communications activity both in their job role and as part of ScreenSkills' overall strategic objectives.
• Demonstrate a personal commitment to embracing and promoting ScreenSkills' positive approach to the achievement of acceptance, openness, and equality of opportunity at work for people from under-represented groups (i.e. such as those with disabilities and from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities).
• Promote and develop individual and organisational activities which support and enhance environmental sustainability and health and safety objectives.
• Establish good working relationships with both internal and external customers and provide a high quality service which meets their needs.
• Support yours and your colleagues' activity through a commitment to effective and correct use of corporate tools and resources, including the Wire (ScreenSkills' intranet) for internal communications and file management, and authorised systems for contact management.

This job description is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive. It is issued as a framework to outline the main areas of responsibility at the time of writing. Your manager will, in discussion with you, review the job description at appraisal. It is ScreenSkills' intention to work with you to update and incorporate changes to your job description as required. However, if agreement cannot be reached, ScreenSkills reserves the right to impose changes.

ScreenSkills is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering after a career break, women, people who are LGBTQ+, from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, from a less advantaged socio-economic background as well as any other under-represented group.