Job Opportunity: Development Executive

An exciting opportunity to develop a wide range of live-action, animated, and documentary feature films led by Welsh talent has arisen at Ffilm Cymru Wales.

Past credits include Prano Bailey Bond’s Censor, Janis Pugh’s Chuck Chuck Baby, Lee Haven Jones’ Gwledd, Jay Bedwani’s documentary Donna, Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch and animated feature Kensuke’s Kingdom.

Title: Development Executive
Term: Full-time, fixed-term to 05/07/2025 (potential to job share and potential to extend term)
Salary: £29,250 - £32,500
Deadline: 5pm, 22nd August 2024
Interviews: w/c 2nd September, online or in person

Key Responsibilities

To read and assess applications for development funding in line with our funding guidelines and priority areas, taking an active role in decision-making.
To provide editorial and strategic guidance to those in receipt of our development funding, supporting them to consider skills, diversity and inclusion, and green impacts as well as helping them to best position their project for financing.
To provide key approvals on projects at development stage to unlock payment instalments, including approval of script drafts, pitch materials, and for some later stage awards, finance plans, budgets or schedules among other elements.
To meet with filmmakers to help advise them on our funding, particularly encouraging a wide diversity of applicants in line with our Film is For Everyone Action Plan.
Feeding into the departments’ talent development strategy which includes advisory sessions, masterclasses, resources, training, and funding for career progression opportunities.

Skills and Experience

An ability to identify and nurture creative work and diverse talent.
Previous experience working in a project or talent development capacity within Film, TV, theatre or immersive.
Experience of providing strategic as well as editorial feedback on feature film and/or short film screenplays and packages.
Experience and key relationships within the feature film industry.

Desirable

Experience of working with immersive content.

How to Apply

Unless we’ve agreed an alternate application format with you, you should email a CV and cover letter to Ihsana Feldwick on ihsana@ffilmcymruwales.com outlining your availability and your experience and skills against those outlined in the below specification.

Please submit your application by 5pm 22nd August 2024.

Ffilm Cymru is not a licensed sponsor for VISAs and as such you must already have the Right to Work in the UK to apply for this role.

Interviews will be held week commencing 2nd September either online or in person.

Access Support

We believe in a screen sector that works for everyone and we are passionate about broadening access to that sector.

We will offer an automatic interview to all candidates who meet our Minimum Criteria for the role 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.

For applicants with access requirements, for example individuals who are D/deaf, hard-of-hearing, Disabled, neurodiverse, and people with sight loss, support is available to complete an application. Please contact us to let us know how we can help. For example, we can cover the costs of a BSL interpreter for a meeting with us prior to making an application, scribing support for dyslexic applicants, or agree alternative formats for applying such as video applications or slide decks. We’ll be guided by you.

Please contact Ihsana Feldwick on ihsana@ffilmcymruwales.com to discuss your requirements in advance of making an application.