Film Officer - City Chambers

Film Officer
City Chambers

Salary: £33,287 - £39,129
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks

Exciting opportunity to join Film Edinburgh, the City of Edinburgh Council's Film Office. We have a 36-hour/week opening in the Film Office to work with the Film, Screen and Cinema Manager to promote and facilitate filming in Edinburgh, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders.

We are looking for a friendly, focused, good communicator with an eye for detail, a passion for film and TV and an extensive knowledge of the landscape of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and the Scottish Borders. You will work with filmmakers directly, providing specialist advice about location filming in urban and rural locations in line with the Code of Practice for Filmmaking. You will be tasked with keeping our Locations Library up to date and photographing new locations, checking in with crew and production services to make sure their Production Guide listings are accurate, logging filming enquiries and processing filming applications. And you will be able to use your social media skills to help create content for Film Edinburgh's digital platforms to raise awareness of the region as a filming destination to both industry and the community at large.

Part of the Council's Culture Service you will be at the heart of Edinburgh's support for Cultural activities in the city and will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Council to maintain and develop Edinburgh's reputation as a vibrant and sustainable world leading cultural capital. Based in the City Chambers on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, you will also get out and about visiting new locations and film sets in Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and the Scottish Borders.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4

As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We're interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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