Screen Producer

Salary: £29,605 - £32,982

Warwick Arts Centre is looking for a Screen Producer to join their team.

Thank you for your interest in joining us at Warwick Arts Centre. We are on a mission to create a dynamic, relevant, and artistically ambitious and sustainable arts centre and we need more great people to help us achieve our plans.

We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong, a place of fairness and equity and to be an organisation that reflects the diversity of its city. If this sounds like somewhere you would like to work, we would like to hear from you.

The Arts Centre is equipped with three state-of-the-art Cinema screens and this role will be responsible for developing and delivering a year-round programme of cinema, plus live film-based events including talks, workshops, and pre/post-screening entertainment.

The Screen Producer will also be responsible for developing and delivering activities that continue to build and broaden our film audience and develop opportunities across the wider live events, visual arts, music centre and creative learning programmes as defined by Warwick Arts Centre’s values and unique position within the local community.

The Screen Producer will sit as part of Warwick Arts Centre’s programme team, reporting to the Creative Director, but they will work closely alongside the Cinema Administrator and members of the technical and operations teams who deliver the film programme.

Hours of employment: 36.5 per week
Contract: Permanent

The role’s central remit is to:

• Develop and deliver programme and schedule for three cinemas ensuring fit and alignment with the Arts Centre’s wider programming strategy and values.
• Develop and deliver a wider year-round screen based programme e.g. AR/VR/gaming projects; talks; Q&A’s; workshops/ short courses; and other thematically linked pre/post-screening events that reflect the programming vision.
• Contribute to wider programming in cross team projects and festivals.
• Help establish Warwick Arts Centre as a desirable addition to the independent film circuit for multi-venue festivals and other relevant events.
• Work with creative learning and marketing to raise awareness of film and build relationships with audiences, increase audiences and develop initiatives for attracting new audiences.
• Act as key contact for cinema and screen related enquiries, including hires, evaluating any incoming proposals and ensuring decisions balance both the artistic and financial ambitions of the Arts Centre.
• Help set annual budgets and achieve agreed sales targets.
• Identify and secure new sources of funding and take the lead in monitoring and reporting for secured funds.
• This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with a wide knowledge of film and a passion for screen projects, who understands their power to tell stories, reflect on social issues and engage a broad and representative range of audience.

Online information session

23 July, 5:30-6:30pm on Teams

Join our Creative Director and Screen Administrator for an information session about the role. They will outline what we are looking for in the role, what makes the best application and will also talk about Warwick Arts Centre’s current film programme and processes to give candidates an idea of how the Screen Producer role will work. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions.

Book a place.

About Warwick Arts Centre

Warwick Arts Centre is the largest multi art form arts centre outside London, presenting events, activities, films and exhibitions to over 200,000 people every year.

We are one of the region’s leading learning, visual arts, cinema and performing arts venues. We work with exceptional artists and creatives from the city, region and globally delivering a programme that reflects our local and global context. As an arts centre on a university campus our ambition is to develop programmes which speak to and reach our audiences on campus, in the city of Coventry and the wider region. Our city is one of the most ethnically diverse and youngest in Europe our goal is to reflect this through our work and the people we employ.

Vision and values

When we re-opened our new building in 2021 a new brand positioning was developed with a focus on forming a better bridge between arts and the community and also highlighting the venue as a melting pot of different people and ideas:

Purpose

We’re here to share our love for the arts

Belief

We believe the arts are a place we can all meet – a place to share our experiences, a place to find common ground and understanding, a place to connect, to transform and explore new possibilities together.

Promise

Experiences you’ll feel and never forget – be it joy, excitement or sadness and whoever you are, wherever you’re from

More information can be found on our website.

Our commitment to equality

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment.  We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued.  Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. As part of our commitment to increasing the diversity of staff within the Arts Centre we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from groups that are

Warwick Arts Centre is a department of the University of Warwick, and the successful candidate will be employed by the University of Warwick.

Applications

Please apply via our jobs portal.

The closing date for this position is 19/08/2024 at 23:59