Please note that all roles and responsibilities will be executed alongside other members of the Film Forum team, where appropriate.

COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING
In collaboration with Communications Manager, Artistic Director, and Executive Director.

• Audience Engagement: Research and implement new strategies to reach new users and increase engagement with current users on NWFF’s various platforms; provide reports to Film Forum team about effective and ineffective practices.
• Marketing Calendar: Coordinate strategies and timelines for marketing strategies across all platforms.
• Social Media: Create social media schedule; maintain regular presence on all platforms, paying attention to honing an “organizational voice” on MailChimp, Facebook (including latest updates), Twitter, and Instagram, using social media scheduling and analytics software.
• Advertising: Work with NWFF annual budget to monitor ad spending and work with the team to create marketing campaigns for assigned projects and tasks, ensuring fiscal responsibility and compliance.

PARTNERSHIPS
In collaboration with Education Manager, Communications Manager, Artistic Director, and Executive Director.

• Meaningful Relationships: Establish and grow partnerships and meaningful relationships with organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest region and beyond, which include but are not limited to: artists and art lovers of all kinds, members, partner organizations, nonprofits, film festivals, event producers, and grassroots groups.
• Equitable Transactions: Ideate dynamic strategies to develop partnerships with aligned organizations, ensuring mutual benefit and visibility through equitable exchanges.
• Horizontal Collaborations: Coordinate grassroots promotions with relevant organizations in support of chosen screenings, film festivals, and events.

OUTREACH & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
In collaboration with Education Manager, Grants Manager, Artistic Director, and Executive Director.

• Event Facilitation: Develop, organize, and facilitate or co-facilitate discussion groups, workshops, trainings, round-tables, and other events (virtually, or in person as appropriate), to receive feedback from NWFF’s various stakeholder groups.
• Cultural Sensitivity: Develop culturally respectful engagement efforts specialized for each of Film Forum diverse programs, and custom-tailored to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disability, low-income, and/or other historically underserved or underresourced communities, where appropriate.
• Authentic Representation: Ensure all community engagement activities center the needs, voices, and perspectives of local community members as the starting point for shared learning that will lead to meaningful systemic change within NWFF’s programs and beyond.
• Project Schedules: Manage and oversee community engagement projects from start to finish, ensuring all deliverables are achieved according to schedule.
• Info Shares: Develop and provide structures for data management and collection; share community engagement learnings with the Film Forum team.

• Ability to see, value, and adapt to cultural differences. Demonstrated and/or lived experience working with people of diverse ages, genders, sexualities, ethnicities, cultures, races, abilities, and socio-economic backgrounds, including those from society’s historically underserved by mainstream arts organizations.
• Passion for and dedication to NWFF’s history, mission, vision, values, and programs. Familiarity with and passion for independent film and arts communities.
• Experience with nonprofit organizations with multiple programs serving diverse constituencies in film, arts, and/or media.
• Commitment to providing NWFF’s resources to community members with limited access to media education and programs.
• Lived commitment to and investment in racial and social justice and anti-oppression analysis.
• Demonstrated skills using G Suite (Google) applications, Zoom, Instagram, Facebook (including latest updates), Twitter, Mailchimp, and social media scheduling software is necessary.
• Familiarity and experience in Adobe suite, Google Analytics, and Shopify are not required but helpful.

This staff position is 20 hours/week, $18/hour, and reports to the Executive Director. Flexible work schedule, plus access to filmmaking gear, computers, and workshops. After positive 9-month review, this position will be eligible for benefits, including 100% coverage of health, dental, and vision, plus a stipend for workforce development training.

For the foreseeable future until pandemic restrictions and stay-at-home orders lift, this role will be remote, though a candidate local to the Western Washington area is encouraged, as the role will likely be in-person when NWFF is able to open our doors once again.

Please send resume, any applicable portfolio or work samples, and statement of interest (written, audio, or video) to Executive Director Vivian Hua at vivian@nwfilmforum.org with the subject line: Marketing & Outreach Specialist Role at NWFF

Audio and video statements are not to exceed 3 minutes in length and can be sent via wetransfer.com to vivian@nwfilmforum.org.

Northwest Film Forum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment policies and programs of Northwest Film Forum are nondiscriminatory in regard to race, gender, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status or sexual orientation. All potential candidates who identify as Black, Indigenous, person of color, immigrant, living with a disability, low-income, or LGBTQ+ are highly encouraged to apply.

Review of applications begins January 18, 2021, but the deadline for applications is January 25, 2021. Starting date is negotiable, but ideally begins in mid-February.