HippFest 2026 Outreach and Engagement Coordinator

HippFest Outreach and Engagement Coordinator

Falkirk Council are looking for a highly committed, collaborative and creative person to work on engagement and outreach as part of the friendly and dedicated team working on HippFest 2026.

HippFest is Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music, centred in and inspired by Scotland’s oldest cinema, featuring exceptional screenings, commissions, workshops, community events and touring. 

This role is vital to achieving the engagement and outreach ambitions of the Festival, with a focus on local integration during core dates and building HippFest’s reputation within the local community. You will nurture and build relationships with a wide range of community partners, local businesses and stakeholders.  You will secure a base for the Festival ‘Hub’ in Bo’ness and recruit/liaise with hosts for the Festival ‘Village’, leading on the management of and communication with all Festival Village venues.  In tandem with this you will devise and manage an inspiring programme of HippFest outreach events and added value activity in the Hippodrome and across the local community, within allocated budgets, including developing fun public and community engagement workshops, the HippFest Friday Night Gala afterparty, and progressing and ideating events for the Youth Engagement programme for school age children and young people.  

This is a great role for a highly committed, collaborative and creative person passionate about engaging the community with HippFest and determined to deliver an engaging grass-roots programme of Festival-adjacent activity. This is a pro-active, outward facing role and the successful candidate will be a vital member of the team, contributing to the continuing success and development of this much-loved and internationally respected film festival.   

If you have any questions, you can contact alison.strauss@falkirk.gov.uk before applying. 

Fee: £10,200 (68 days £150 p/d).  (FTE 0.27) (£37,800 per annum pro rata) 

Term: Temporary contract, 1 Sep 2025 – 31 Aug 2026 subject to successful completion of a one-month probationary period. The core dates for HippFest 2026 are Wednesday 18 – Sunday 22 March 2026, plus key events on other dates (eg. New Found Sound dress rehearsal Sun 15 Mar 2026). 

Place of Work Mostly remote working but there is the option to access to a workstation hub with a wired data connection, an external display, keyboard and mouse (subject to availability) at Council offices (Falkirk Stadium or Callendar House) (during office hours).  The Outreach and Engagement Co-ordinator will need to attend meetings and undertake stakeholder engagement across the Falkirk area. It is therefore essential that the Outreach and Engagement Coordinator is mobile across the Falkirk area, ideally with a full driving licence. 

Closing date: 11am Monday 21st July 2025. 

Interviews: Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 August

Applications: Further information on the role, person specification, application and selection process are included in the Recruitment Pack, which can be downloaded here. 

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