Digital Media Specialist Team Leader

Overview

Salary : £35,640 - £41,763 per annum. We are looking for a Digital Media Specialist Team Leader to join the BFI's Data & Digital Preservation Team within the Knowledge, Learning & Collections Directorate. The Team Leader will provide effective leadership and operational oversight for a team delivering digital audiovisual preservation and access services. This includes managing team performance and development, ensuring clear communication and collaboration, and maintaining high standards across technical workflows. The Team Leader will support strategic planning, promote a positive and inclusive team culture, and ensure compliance with organisational policies, while engaging with wider departmental and external initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop team members in line with the Performance Management Scheme, ensuring regular individual and team meetings, clear objectives, and ongoing development.
• Work closely with the People team to identify development opportunities and address performance challenges early.
• Lead a team delivering core operational functions including quality control, validation, preservation, transcoding, and access for audiovisual digital content.

Qualifications and Experience

About the BFI

We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK's lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow.

Benefits

We support diversity and inclusion, and strongly welcome applicants from underrepresented groups; we recognise the need to address under-representation within our teams. We guarantee a place at the first stage selection process to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.

Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be obtained by clicking the links to the left. Depending on the volume of applications, you may be asked to complete a small task or attend a pre-interview screening call to assist the hiring team in shortlisting for this role. In this instance, interview dates may be subject to change. The closing date for applications is 23 : 59 on Monday 13 October 2025. First interviews will be held on Thursday 23 October 2025 and second interviews on Tuesday 28 October 2025.

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