Position: VolunteerEducation Coordinator

Position type: Volunteer (unpaid)

Availability & Commitment: Ideally, we would like a commitment of 4 hours/week with flexibility in when hours are worked. However, it will be busier in the lead up to and during the festival (Jan-April).

Start Date: August 2025

Reports to: Festival Director

Role Purpose: The MWFF Education Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the festival’s education events and programs to ensure their smooth delivery. 

Location: Work from home/Festival venue/s; you will need to provide your own laptop/computer.

MWFF is committed to celebrating diversity and inclusivity, and highly encourages expressions of interest from people regardless of gender identity and expression, ethnicity, cultural background, sexual orientation, disability, and age.

Applicants must be over the age of 18 (or 18 y/o by 1 July 2025) to be eligible for a volunteer position.

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About MWFF

The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) is an exciting, volunteer-run not-for-profit organisation that aims to inspire and empower established and emerging women and gender diverse screen practitioners from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the wider Moana region through the celebration of their work in the screen industry. 

MWFF exhibits work from collaborative teams of women and gender diverse practitioners working in all facets of screen production to help redress the gender imbalance across the screen industries. The festival also engages diverse groups of women and gender diverse people in its programming team and throughout the various levels of its organisation. 

Since launching in 2017, MWFF has delivered eight festivals to date, where the festival engages audiences in venues and online with dynamic and inclusive screen experiences. Our program includes feature and short screenings, panel discussions, workshops, education programs, a critics lab, and other industry events. MWFF also partners on screenings and events in line with its mission throughout the year.

Vision & Mission 

We envision a world where the voices, stories and creativity of women and gender diverse people are equally valued, recognised and celebrated on and behind the screen.

Our mission is to expand the vision of gender equality and diversity in the Australian screen industries and culture.

We achieve this by creating dynamic and inclusive spaces that bring diverse practitioners and audiences together to be moved by compelling, provocative and entertaining cinema.

What we need help with

The Education Coordinator will be responsible for: 


• Coordinating MWFF’s program of school screenings and practical workshops in the lead up and during the festival, including activity registrations.



• Liaising with teachers/schools, venues and connected organisations, including answering inquiries and correspondence.

• Connecting and collaborating with screening and workshop facilitators or co-presenting partners, and coordinating resources.

• Work with Festival Director to collect and/or create school resources to accompany screenings and workshops.

• Distributing and collating evaluation forms and surveys from MWFF’s education activities.

• Coordinating mail-outs and digital distribution of information to schools as requested by the Festival Director.
  

What we ask for

• High-level written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated attention to detail.

• Strong organisational skills with proven experience in working across numerous projects.

• Knowledge of the Victorian education sector, including the Victorian curriculum (in particular Media, English, or Social/Cultural Studies) and/or experience as secondary school teacher.

• Ability to create and maintain strong relationships with teachers with an ability to handle a range of inquiries from teachers, students and parents.

• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a small team and a preparedness to perform a variety of tasks including data entry, invoicing and photocopying.

• Preparedness to work evenings and/or weekends.

• A passion for women’s and gender diverse creativity and equality.

MWFF volunteers must have a valid Working with Children Check (WWCC). We will forward details of how to apply for this FREE check to the successful applicant if needed.

If this sounds like you, please forward a cover letter and brief CV detailing your experience to Sian Mitchell via positions@mwff.org.au by Monday 18th August, 5pm using the subject line ‘VOLUNTEER EDUCATION COORDINATOR’.