See below for details of the three posts with The 8½ Foundation: Project Manager, Industry Producer and Administrative Assistant
The 8½ Foundation, a new Scottish Charity, will be part think tank — using the media to explain the idea — and part delivery mechanism. On our website Scottish kids will see clips from some great films. Then 8½ year olds in ten key hubs around Scotland can choose which of the films they would like to receive, on DVD, as a present, for their movie birthday.
The ten hubs are five schools across Scotland, a children's hospital, the network of Regional Film Theatres, and a Chinese, an Indian and a Polish community group.
Contract: 2 Years
Salary: £20,000 per annum, full time.
Location: Scotland: Edinburgh or Nairn.
Start date: negotiable, but no later than 31 May 2010.
Answering to Mark Cousins and Tilda Swinton and the board of Trustees of the 8½ Foundation.
Job-share for this post might be a possibility.
We need a really organized, enthusiastic, hard working and reliable person to run all aspects of Mark Cousins’ and Tilda Swinton’s new organization, the 8½ Foundation. This aims to get Scottish kids excited about world cinema by convincing them and their family and friends that their 8½ birthday is their movie birthday, so they should see a great film on that day.
The key responsibilities of the Project Manager
- Oversee all aspects of the project
- Together with Tilda and Mark, set up the network of hubs
- Together with Tilda and Mark, visit the hubs regularly to build relationships with them
- Sell the idea of great world cinema for kids in Scotland and, where necessary, talk to the press, schools, education officers and teachers
- Oversee the work of a part time administrative assistant, who’ll be employed 2 days a week for 30 weeks over the two years
- Deputise for Tilda and Mark on this project
- Log the DVD requests
- Oversee subtitling of the DVDs
- Oversee the packaging and delivery of the DVDs
- Oversee the costs of the project and keep within budget
- Work with the Industry Producer, who will do deals and contracts with film suppliers
- Arrange travel
- Organise and deliver the assessment jamboree in March 2012.
Person Specification
To do this job you must:
- Love film
- Love kids
- Love Scotland
- Love organizing things.
You'll need to be:
- Flexible, because the plans will change
- Self reliant, because Mark and Tilda will not always be there
- Hard working, because there is a lot to do
- Enthusiastic, because this project is full of idealism
- A mucker inner. Some of the work will be inspiring, but there’ll be booking trains and running to edit suites and licking envelopes too
- Numerate. You’ll have to submit cost reconciliations to the project’s accountants.
You’ll need:
- A good phone manner
- The ability to write a cracking letter
- To be able to work from home
- To be computer literate (simple spreadsheet, emails, internet booking forms, etc)
- To have a really good feel for Scotland, its regional and social differences.
Your own laptop would be an advantage.
A clean driving license would be an advantage.
A knowledge of Mandarin or Urdu or Hindi or Polish would be wonderful.
