Role overview

This is a Specified Purpose Contract (Maternity leave cover).
This role is part-time based on 2.5 days per week.
The salary for this role is €29,000 (to be pro-rata based on hours worked)
Other benefits: Hybrid and flexible working options, 24 days annual leave, bike to work scheme, enhanced sick pay, IFI Film Shop & Cafe Bar discounts, local business discounts, free cinema tickets, pension scheme.

Overview of IFI

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s national cultural institution for film. At the IFI’s historic home in Eustace Street, Temple Bar, our diverse audiences and loyal members enjoy our 3 cinemas, IFI Irish Film Archive’s research and access facilities, IFI Film Shop and IFI Café Bar, and our four digital streaming platforms: IFI@Home; IFI Archive Player; IFI@Schools; IFI International.

The IFI has developed strategic objectives around five core activities:

• EXHIBIT- Providing audiences throughout Ireland with access to the finest independent, Irish and international cinema

• PRESERVE - Preserving and promoting Ireland’s moving image heritage through the IFI Irish Film Archive

• EDUCATE - Providing opportunities for audiences of all ages and backgrounds to learn and critically engage with film through IFI Education

• INNOVATE - Using new and emerging technologies to enhance audience engagement, operations and processes, while exploring opportunities for expansion
• PEOPLE - Always considering audiences, artists and IFI staff as the triad at the heart of all decision-making regarding what we do and how we do it.

Main responsibilities:

Liaising with IFI staff, film producers, distributors or sales agents to upload assets to all platforms.
Working closely with the Digital Platforms Manager to fulfil film releases, festivals and deadlines on all platforms within a set timeline.
Clearing copyright with content rights holders and updating the IFI Archive Player rights information database if required
Keeping track of uploads and ensuring all content is uploaded at the correct time.
Ensuring all licensor details, prices, promo codes and metadata on each platform is accurate.
Writing high quality, engaging and informative copy on films or collections if required.
Ensuring all aspects of the online customer journey are clear, cohesive and visually engaging.
Monitoring and flagging any potential issues that arise on IFI Platforms and reporting to the Digital Platforms Manager.
Providing support for customer service function related to the platforms including email queries, public facing queries, or liaising with the relevant contact point at IFI, with customer service support including occasional weekend or evening support as required.
Pulling statistical information across all platforms and working with marketing to collate audience information.
Providing engaging creative assets including online platform posters, trailers, social graphics.
Assisting with day-to-day IFI marketing administration, from sales tracking to asset tracker maintenance.
Any other duties as deemed appropriate by Digital Platforms Manager.

Technical Support

Liaising with sales agents/ production houses/ filmmakers if necessary to provide a technical guide of acceptable file formats for all online platforms (noting compression, aspect ratio, subtitles, CC, syncing etc.)
Liaising with IFI Archive staff on delivery of assets preserved in the archive for upcoming IFI Archive Player releases.
Preparing IFI Archive material (noting quality, aspect ratio, adding IFI watermark etc.) for upload on the IFI Archive Player.
Preparing or editing any supplementary video content (trailers, bonus material, social content) for each platform if required.
Using Vimeo and Wordpress to add assets and collections to the IFI Archive Player.
Ensuring that all assets are QC’d in appropriate time and any issues reported to the IFI Digital Platforms Manager.

Skills and experience required:

Basic editing skills and/or experience of working with Adobe Creative Cloud (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects).
Familiarity with different AV digital files and tape formats.
Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
Experience of working with a range of online platforms including WordPress & Vimeo. Familiarity of CMS and VMS systems is an advantage.
Knowledge and understanding of social media platforms and digital trends.
Excellent copywriting and communication skills.
IT, metadata creation and cataloguing experience and be familiar with the management of digital assets and the use of databases
Have excellent time and project management skills.
Be motivated, energetic and results driven
Have a genuine interest and passion for film and film culture.

IFI is principally funded by the Arts Council.

Digital Platforms Assistant

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