Position Vacant

Due to a restructure and the Operations Manager departing, the Sydney Film Festival have today advertised in the Australian Financial Review for a General Manager who will now report to the Board.

Please see details below.

Position Title: General Manager, full-time three-year contract

SFF Mission: To develop and deliver a sustainable world-class film festival, which engages all stakeholders and achieves critical acclaim by presenting a unique program, which inspires, challenges and entertains an increasingly broad and diverse audience.

Position Purpose: To manage the enterprise and with the Executive Director, to develop and action appropriate strategies to deliver the outcomes implicit in the vision and mission statements and as defined from time to time in the cultural enterprise plan. This position will manage the development functions of the enterprise with responsibility for building and maintaining effective and productive partnerships with funding agencies, sponsors and donors, and industry partners that maximise cash revenues and in kind support for the enterprise.

Further information and selection criteria can be found HERE.

The closing date for applications is 5pm Friday 14 December 2007.

To apply, please send your CV, with a covering letter stating how you feel you meet the requirements of the role, in particular addressing the Critical Selection Criteria, to jobs@sydneyfilmfestival.org, with ‘General Manager’ in the subject header.


Declaration: I am a member of the SFF and worked at the 2006 festival.