WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL: City Promotions Events and Filming Officer

The Role:

As City Promotions, Events and Filming Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to extraordinary stories told in and about our iconic city. Westminster is one of the UK’s busiest and most recognizable locations for event and filming activity. Our busy City Promotions, Events and Filming team coordinates and facilitates all the third party organized events, filming and promotional activity in Westminster. Joining this close-knit, dynamic and diverse team, you’ll never have a dull moment.

We support a hugely diverse portfolio of activities – from community events through to high profile, nationally significant moments such as the recent Coronation. We also support major sporting events and large-scale events of cultural importance – from the Chinese and Lunar New Year celebrations, through to Pride in London. What’s more, we’re the busiest UK borough for on-street filming. This spans fashion shoots, TV commercials and music videos, as well as major TV dramas and feature films. Every day is different.

Your work will be a mixture of reviewing and processing proposals and applications for events and filming. With a major focus on events, you’ll work on a range of projects with competing deadlines at any given time. Some filming or event activity is happening somewhere in Westminster almost every day of the year, so you can expect to work some weekends and evenings to deliver on your assigned portfolio.

Engaging with people is the key to our work, so you’ll enjoy the chance to work closely with a wide range of stakeholders, communities and residents. Leading event and filming organizer’s through the planning process, you’ll collaborate with colleagues in a range of Council services – from Parking and Highways, to Licensing and Environmental Health, through to Parks, Planning and Communications. You’ll make sure relevant permissions, licenses and approvals are obtained, and you’ll ensure that activities are planned to be delivered safely, with minimal disruption to the community.

About You:

With experience of event management and/or location/street-based filming production, you understand the needs of industry and you’re comfortable working in a fast paced environment, with a range of stakeholders. Highly organized, you have the skills to develop and deliver multiple projects at the same time. You also demonstrate the flexibility to adapt to influences and situations outside of your control. We’ll expect you to bring a passion for events to the role, together with the ability to work occasional evenings and weekends. A skilled builder of good working relationships, you’re confident working with all kinds of people across an organization. You also have the drive and can-do attitude to work on your own initiative.