Course Leader MA Film Producing

Contract: Permanent, full time (35 hours per week)   

Location: Covent Garden, London. 

Job Summary   

This is a wonderful opportunity to lead a brand new and fully validated 1-year MA Film Producing programme at the globally celebrated London Film School -- a recipient of World Leading Specialist Provider status from the Office for Students (OFS), and a practice-based film conservatoire of very long standing. 

The ideal candidate will have very good industry knowledge, and an extensive CV of work as a producer in industry, or an extensive history of teaching film producing at MA level. The role requires a passionate enthusiasm for working with and mentoring young people who plan to work in the industry; and the ability to guide and shape their development as they progress through the course.

This needs to be done with a keen eye for selecting the best students possible from the most diverse range of backgrounds; for building and maintaining high standards across the work of students and external tutors; and for maintaining the appropriate level of enthusiasm / curiosity to develop your own expertise as you build up the course and develop an outstanding faculty of freelance industry practitioners and contributors within the course offer.

The new course will provide its students with intensive training in all the skills needed to become a professional producer of fiction film / high-end TV drama.

A course summary can be seen on the LFS website here.

The course is designed to be explicitly industry-facing.

Coming to the London Film School will also immerse your producing students in a creative hothouse – a community where they can also get filmmaking experience as volunteers on many short films; and can develop a deep professional network amongst the 200 or so screenwriters, directors, camera people, designers, and editors who populate our two existing sister courses (MAF and MAS), as well as the marketeers on our new marketing course (MAM).

Teaching your cohort will offer you the exciting opportunity to shape the future of a new generation of film producers from the UK and around the world (currently we have students enrolled from over 50 nations globally).

You will be a key player in the promotion of your course, working closely with our Marketing / Registry teams to promote the course to possible applicants (and select the best of them); as well as to partners in industry; and to a wide range of prospective employers. LFS competes on a world-wide stage for its student intake and is consistently ranked among the top 15 filmmaking academies globally.

If this sounds appealing, we look forward to your application.  We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and with diverse professional experience. You may have extensive teaching experience in the area and limited film producing experience, or conversely you may have extensive industry producing experience and limited teaching/mentoring experience. You may even have experience in related fields such as theatre. But in every case, you will be able to motivate your students; will enjoy the challenge of building and leading a new course at a world-class filmmaking school working alongside other Course Leaders and specialist heads of craft departments (Camera, Design, Editing, Sound); and will have the personal skills and charm to persuade a wide range of contributors from industry to bring their experience to our film centre building – with its cinemas, new seminar rooms, stages and post production facilities -- in the heart of London’s entertainment district.

We offer a competitive staff benefits package including 30 days leave per annum (pro rata for part-time staff), employer matched contributory pension scheme (4%), season ticket and hardship loan schemes, cycle to work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme and a suite of family-friendly policies.  

Further information and how to apply 

For further information and details of how to apply, please click the ‘apply’ button to be redirected to our website.  Closing date is 9am Monday 17 March 2025. 

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you. We offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.  

Applicants must be able to provide proof of their ongoing right to live and work in the UK.  

LFS is an equal opportunities employer.  Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we especially encourage applications from people who identify as disabled and/or identify as LGBTQIA, black, Asian or are from minority ethnic backgrounds. 

NO AGENCIES PLEASE    

We reserve the right to close this advert as soon as sufficient applications are received; therefore, candidates are advised to submit their application as soon as possible.   

Additional Information about London Film School  

London Film School (LFS) is the longest-established Film school in the UK. It started its life in 1956 and consistently generates award-winning work.

The School now offers five full-time MA programmes and a fast-growing calendar of short courses. It has just completed a major building programme and provides state-or-the art facilities (Studios, Cinemas, Post-Production) at two sites in Covent Garden.

The school is globally celebrated for its commitment to film, innovation and creative freedom. It was awarded World-Leading Specialist Provider status by the Office for Students in 2024 and has always been a cultural hub where fresh voices, experiences and perspectives rub shoulders with tradition and history. Its alumni include celebrated directors, writers, producers, editors and executives.

The School is committed to collaborative practice-based learning and makes more short films each year than any comparable institution. Over 70 graduation films were screened in the January 2025 Graduation Week, for example. LFS nurtures and respects the imagination of students, allowing them to experiment, challenge conventions and explore new modes of storytelling.  The school is connected to local and international screen industries and its alumni span the globe, working in every part of the film industry.

Its students and alumni have won every major award in the screen industries. The festival nominations and competitive awards list spans Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Tribeca, Clermont-Ferrand, London Film Festival, Edinburgh, Encounters, but also the Oscars and Sundance. The school’s high volume of filmmaking output is only matched by its international creative achievement.  In 2024, for an unprecedented third consecutive year, an LFS graduation film was selected in one of the main student film selections of the Cannes Film Festival.

London Film School is a non-profit educational charity led by Greg Dyke as Chair of the Board and Chris Auty as Director and CEO.