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15 Apr 25 | Job & Opportunities
Film Consultant Call Out
The Cultural Programme is looking to engage a film consultant to undertake a short piece of consultancy to advise on the model for the film programme at the Schwarzman Centre Cultural Programme.
Requirement: an expert in the business of film programming is invited to respond to the brief through meetings with the Cultural Programme team and through the writing of a written report.
The consultant is not expected to undertake external meetings to map the landscape, or consult on the strategy around film, but the report may identify defined areas where further consultation is required.
The report should address:
1. How can a film programme best respond to Cultural Programme mission & vision and the context of the programme in Oxford’s Schwarzman Centre?
- What are the potential strands of the programme?
- Articulate these strands in relationship to audiences, artists, academic connection (both research and learning), partnerships, financial models, funders?
- Which strands should be priorities and why?
- Which strands should be avoided and why?
2. What resources does the Film Programme need, depending on its activity level:
- Financial resource
- Human resource
- Options around staffing a film programme? (Does it need a single programmer, or will we benefit from working with a range of curators? In which case, what management and administrative support will the programme need?)
Further details:
We expect this work to be completed within five (5) working days, ideally within May or June.
Payment will be after the completion of work. We expect to make payment via invoice. Individuals paid by the University must be set up on the University supplier system in advance of submitting an invoice.
TO APPLY:
To submit an Expression of Interest, please provide a CV and cover note (including details of your availability and day rate) to the Cultural Programme by Monday 28 April 2025. Please include “Film Consultant EOI” in the subject line.
Email to submit EOI: culturalprogramme@humanities.ox.ac.uk
Cultural Programme, Humanities Division, University of Oxford
The Cultural Programme brings together university, local and global cultural communities in a physical and digital arts centre, powered by the University of Oxford’s research. We promote broad engagement with the riches of the humanities by working with outstanding artists, writers and thinkers from around the world to create and present world-class arts and culture. Innovative and diverse, and delivered across music, theatre, dance, film and visual arts our programmes will be delivered in collaboration with university, local, national and international partners.
At the heart of our vision lies our commitment to:
- Creativity – unlocking new forms of digital authorship, imagination and participation
- People – empowering individuals and communities to generate and explore new forms of knowledge and experience and to become leaders in their own fields and disciplines
- Planet — we want to be connected locally, regionally and globally, in the most environmentally sustainable ways possible
- Innovation – advancing cutting-edge research methodologies in the arts and humanities at the interface of new technologies and digital media
Currently working offsite, from 2026, the Cultural Programme will be located within the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The Schwarzman Centre will bring together seven of the faculties in the Humanities Division, an Institute for Ethics in AI and a multi-disciplinary cultural centre containing Oxford’s first purpose-built concert hall as well as further spaces for music, theatre, spoken word, literature, digital, film and exhibitions. As well as working in the new spaces of the Schwarzman Centre, the Cultural Programme will continue to deliver an offsite programme.
The Schwarzman Centre is a unique proposition bringing together a broad spectrum of academic and artistic disciplines teaching, research and public engagement including through arts and culture. The humanities embrace all the academic and artistic disciplines which together help us to develop our understanding of what it means to be human.
For more information, please visit https://oxfordculturalprogramme.org.uk.
15 Apr 25