Job: Head of Skills & Training
Ffilm Cymru is the development agency for Welsh film. We work across the sector from script to screen, in addition to supporting film education, skills and training.
We’re looking for a candidate who will drive forwards our skills and training activity, at a pivotal point in our company and the creative sector’s growth.
Working to the Head of Production, you’ll develop and implement our Skills & Training strategy. You’ll feed into our training offer for writers, directors, producers, and creative entrepreneurs, managed within the talent team, but your main priorities will be:
- Developing and reporting upon our training programme for aspiring crew facing socio-economic disadvantage (Foot in the Door) including managing activity financed under our Media Cymru, Festival 22, and UK Community Renewal Funding partnerships;
- Advocating for a sustainable screen sector, which is inclusive by design and which recognises the specific needs of Wales;
- Working in partnership with community, industry and governmental organisations on continuous assessment of skills needs and opportunities; project delivery and co-design of solutions for the sector’s challenges;
- Identifying income generation opportunities to support our skills strategy, utilising freelance bid writers if appropriate;
- Developing and advancing trainee tracking systems and impact measures for our skills work, and
- Working collegiately across the team – including close collaboration with the education team to ensure clear signposting of progression pathways.
We are committed to broadening representation and lived experience within our organization. We will offer an automatic interview to all candidates who meet our minimum criteria and who identify as People of the Global Majority, as Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic or as D/deaf, hard-of-hearing, Disabled or neurodiverse.
We can also accept applications and provide information in alternative formats and encourage you to get in touch with Siobhan Brennan or Hayley Lau to discuss.
Contract type: Full-time, initially for one year with potential to extend to a multi-year contract. We welcome job-share proposals.
Location: Wales. We have a Cardiff base but flexibility to work remotely.
Reports to: Head of Production.
Start date: Please let us know when you could start in 2022.
Salary: £35,000- £42,000 (depending on experience), plus pension and 28 days holiday in addition to Public Holidays.
How to Apply
The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Monday 6th December 2021.
Interviews will take place online on 16th and 17th December.
You can apply by emailing a CV together with a cover letter stating why you’re interested in the role and how you meet the criteria listed here, unless we’ve agreed an alternative approach to support your access.
Please email your application to sion@ffilmcymruwales.com
Alternative roles: Please indicate in your application if you would additionally like to be considered for alternative skills and training roles that may come up at Ffilm Cymru from time-to-time, providing consent for us to continue to hold your details, for two years, for that purpose.
To discuss your application in English, get in touch with Hayley.
Hayley Lau, Department Administrator: hayley@ffilmcymruwales.com
To discuss your application in Welsh, you can reach:
Siobhan Brennan, Skills Executive: siobhan@ffilmcymruwales.com
