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Bookings team executive

Cardiff
CHM-1
Posted: 18 June
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Job Description

Bookings Team Executive
Contract: Temporary / Fixed until November 2025
Location: Hybrid – United Kingdom (Multiple Office locations)
Offices: Cardiff, Belfast, Salford, Edinburgh, London
Salary: £28,000 per annum, pro rata

About the Employer
Our client is the UK’s leading charity for film in education and the community. They provide screen industry careers information and advice, support young filmmakers and bring the power of moving image storytelling into classroom teaching.

The charity also runs their annual Film Festival which enables more than 400,000 pupils to visit the cinema for free, and their Film Awards – the UK’s leading showcase for young filmmaking talent.

The core programme is free for UK state schools, colleges and other youth settings, thanks to support from the BFI, awarding National Lottery good cause funding, and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.

Their vision – Film enriches the life of every child and young person.
Their mission – To inspire and support young people to learn, and to realise their creative, cultural and career aspirations, through film and the moving image.

Role Summary

The main function of the Bookings Team Executive role is to provide high quality customer service for this charity's Film Festival. This will mean receiving calls, processing bookings and liaising with educators through email and by phone. It will also involve making outbound calls to drive bookings, speaking to attending teachers and liaising with cinemas to ensure the festival runs smoothly. This is an exciting, front-line, varied role requiring high level communication skills and a solution focused attitude. It is an opportunity to develop customer service and CRM (Salesforce/Aerian) skills and to work for the world’s largest film festival for young people. This role is offered on a fixed term, three-month basis.

Main Responsibilities:

* To be the first point of contact for public festival enquiries; answering calls and emails, processing bookings and problem solving.
* Proactively reaching out over email and phone to educators/bookers, aiming to sign them up to the festival.
* Liaising with the festival team to ensure all enquiries and issues are resolved.
* Checking, updating and uploading booking information onto the festival website (via Aerian - training available).
* Updating the daily incident log (via Excel) - this is used for tracking all enquiries/issues from cinemas. 
* Liaising with exhibitors as and when required and as directed.
* General support in relation to all aspects of the festival.
* Any other reasonable duties assigned by the employer.

General Responsibilities:

* Commitment to quality internally and in all dealings with stakeholders including teachers, children and young people, industry partners, funders, supporters, parents and carers, and members of the public.
* Commitment and active participation in helping this charity to live its EEDI values and ethos through everything it does.
* Contribute to long term planning to ensure growth in line with demand and resources.
* Contribute to the regular monitoring and evaluation of this charity’s work.

Person Specification:

Minimum Requirements:

* Experience of a customer service role.
* Excellent communication skills, including the ability to convey ideas persuasively.
* Strong organisational capability.
* Base level Excel or equivalent skills.
* Experience of working under pressure while handling a high volume of public enquiries.

Desirable:

* Experience of using Teams.
* Experience of using a CRM.
* Experience of talking to teachers/schools.
* Understanding of the education sector.
* Familiarity with the Microsoft Office suite.
* A love and knowledge of film.

Employee benefits: :

* Annual Leave – 28 days (pro-rata).
* Pension – matched up to 5% of salary (2% above statutory employer contribution).
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – 24/7 confidential wellbeing support, advice and guidance. 
* Wisdom health cover – including £75 annual eye care cover, as well as health insurance (non-contributory, apart from employee tax contribution).
* BenefitHub portal – offering discounts on healthcare, wellbeing products, and lifestyle products and services.

All employees regularly working with children and member data are required to undertake and maintain enhanced DBS clearance (and/or Access NI check or Disclosure Scotland check, depending on working location), acquired at the employer’s expense; employment is dependent upon this.

Closing: 9:00am, Tuesday 29th July 2025

Interested?

To apply, please click the apply button. You will be taken to a simple CHM Recruit form. There you can find out more information and complete your application by following the instructions.

No agencies please.

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