Rights & Contracts Coordinator

We are looking for a Rights & Contracts Coordinator to join the BFI’s Rights & Contracts team, working across providing comprehensive support to the Rights and Contracts Department in all aspects of work.

Key responsibilities include:

• Undertaking general administrative duties as needed, such as drafting meeting agendas, action points, correspondence, summaries, and reports, coordinating calendars, invoicing, and frequent liaison with other BFI departments to gather and supply information, document and filing administration and organisation, rights and document research.
• Providing support and co-ordination throughout the rights acquisition process by keeping accurate records and always ensuring that outstanding items are pursued and tracking contracts and delivery.
• Recording rights information and the terms of contracts on the distribution database as needed, tracking documentation generated by the team through licensing rights, providing support to and liaison with the royalties team and processes as requested.
• Liaison with media industry guilds, unions, and performing rights societies, and coordination of payments thereto (such as MCPS) as required.

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Previous  administrative experience within a media legal, business affairs, or contract management environment.
• Knowledge of film rights contract terminology.
• Good communication skills including oral and written.
• Excellent organisational skills to be able to deal with large amounts of data.
• Demonstrable ability to enter data accurately.
• Demonstrable ability to work as part of a team.

A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description.