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 days per week for 20 weeks in year one and ten weeks in year two @ £50 per day, totaling £3,000.
Location: Scotland: Edinburgh or Nairn.
Start date: negotiable, but no later than 31 May 2010.
Answering to the Project Manager.
We need a really enthusiastic, hard working and reliable admin assistant to do packaging, posting, photocopying and other tasks on 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 Admin Assistant
- Support the Project Manager
- Organise the room where the DVDs and packaging will be stored
- Package the DVDs, balloons, glitter etc (!), and mail them. Over the two years, there will be thousands of such packages
- Control petty cash for postage and other authorized expenditure
- Where necessary, assist with mailing lists, DVD request logs, labeling, delivery logs, tracking packages, etc.
- Go to post production houses to collect packages.
Person Specification
To do this job you'll need to:
- Be very organised
- Be reliable
- Not mind going to the post office every day
- Be self reliant
- Be a mucker inner.
