Learning Coordinator

Salary: £20,800 (0.8 FTE at £26,000 pa)

Screen Argyll is recruiting a Learning Coordinator to help them build partnerships and develop strategy for screen education provision in the Argyll and Isles. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about making opportunities for young people in rural communities. Could it be you?

About Screen Argyll

Screen Argyll supports all forms of film exhibition, promotion, and engagement throughout Argyll and the isles. We deliver screenings, festivals, film education, film and animation production, resources, and community projects across Argyll and the Isles.

Screen Argyll provides opportunities for remote communities to connect through film and supports venues to engage with the widest possible audience. Most of our small team live in the island communities in which we work.

Our four key values which interweave across all our work are:

• Inspiring Creativity
• Diverse Voices / Programming
• Like-minded Partnerships
• People Come First

Argyll and Bute is the second largest local authority in Scotland and with 45% of the region’s population living in areas classified by the Scottish Government as ‘remote rural’, networks like our existing Community Cinema Network are crucial for cohesion as well as reducing social isolation. Screen Argyll are the only organisation supporting all forms of film exhibition, education, promotion, and engagement throughout Argyll and the isles. Further to our Community Cinema Network, across the last four years, Screen Argyll has been nurturing a screen education alumni network with a view to developing pathways for young people and growing our partnerships with the film exhibition and production industry.

You can find out more at https://screenargyll.co.uk/ about our work including: film education workshops, projects and BFI Film Academy, Sea Change Film Festival and Industry Development Lab, Between The Tides project, and how we connect audiences online via our Stream Screen Argyll video streaming platform and Sofa Cinema post-film discussions.

About the role

The Screen Argyll Learning Coordinator will build partnerships and key relationships, supporting sectoral development of screen education provision in the Argyll and Isles. The Learning Coordinator will help Screen Argyll to develop strategy for ongoing support of our young film makers and filmmaking in Argyll and the Isles.

This new role centres on provision in island and rural communities for children and young people aged 5 to 25 – in both formal and informal education settings – who are unable to access opportunities often focused on mainland and urban areas. You will work with the Programme Manager and Screen Argyll Directors to devise and deliver year-round events and activities which support the understanding, appreciation, and creative use of film for young audiences. This role is funded by Screen Scotland.

Contract: Fixed-term 12 months. Open to job share
Hours: c. 30 hours per week
Location: min. 2 days per week at our Tiree-based office, with some travel within Argyll and the isles

Further information

Find out more and apply here.

The closing date for this position is 05/03/2024 at 23:59