Fear Screen Film Festival
Sponsorship & Partnerships Lead
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Fear Screen Film Festival
Fear Screen Film Festival is the North East’s newest horror-focused event, created to give independent filmmakers a dedicated platform to showcase their work to passionate genre audiences. Curated by industry professionals with experience across major film and television productions, the festival draws on strong connections to support emerging talent and champion bold, boundary-pushing storytelling.
Fear Screen is built around collaboration, creativity, and community, bringing together filmmakers, audiences, and partners to shape a distinctive and immersive horror film experience.
Role Description
We are seeking a driven and confident Sponsorship & Partnerships Lead to join us on a remote, contract basis during a key growth phase for the festival.
With just over three months until our upcoming edition, this role will take ownership of sponsorship outreach and partnership development—helping us secure meaningful collaborations that directly support the festival’s delivery and long-term growth.
You will be responsible for identifying and approaching potential sponsors, brand partners, and industry collaborators, as well as creating tailored proposals and partnership packages aligned with festival objectives. Day-to-day responsibilities include prospect research, outreach and follow-up, managing and nurturing leads, negotiating partnership terms, and coordinating deliverables with internal teams.
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You will also support sponsorship activation, ensuring partners are effectively integrated into marketing campaigns and festival events, while tracking performance against agreed goals. This role works closely with programming, marketing, and operations to deliver partnerships that benefit audiences, filmmakers, and sponsors alike.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify, research, and build a pipeline of potential sponsors and partners aligned with the festival’s audience and brand
- Lead outreach via email, LinkedIn, and other relevant channels
- Develop and pitch tailored sponsorship packages and proposals
- Manage and nurture inbound and outbound leads through to conversion
- Negotiate partnership terms and secure agreements
- Coordinate sponsor deliverables across marketing and event activity
- Track outreach, partnerships, and performance against targets
Qualifications
- Experience in sponsorship sales, fundraising, business development, or partnerships within events, film, entertainment, or related sectors
- Proven ability to research prospects, build pipelines, and create compelling sponsorship proposals and pitch decks
- Strong negotiation, relationship management, and stakeholder communication skills
- Familiarity with marketing and brand activation, including digital, social, and experiential campaigns
- Understanding of, or genuine interest in, genre film—particularly horror—and the independent film landscape
- Highly organised and self-motivated, with the ability to work independently and manage multiple opportunities
- Comfortable using remote collaboration tools (email, video conferencing, shared documents, CRM/project tools)
- Previous experience securing sponsors for festivals, cultural events, or similar initiatives is highly advantageous
- A degree in marketing, communications, business, film, or equivalent experience is preferred but not essential
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What We Offer
- A key role within an international film festival at an exciting stage of growth
- Flexible, remote working arrangements
- The opportunity to shape partnership strategy and make a direct impact
- Commission or performance-based incentives (to be discussed)
- Access to a growing network within the film and events industry
Application Process
If you’re confident in outreach, enjoy building relationships, and want to be part of shaping a fast-growing horror festival, we’d love to hear from you. Please send a short introduction along with any relevant experience or examples of past sponsorship or sales work.
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