Production Assistant

​​​​​​​​This role is offered on a hybrid contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home three days a week.

Purpose of Role

Comic Relief are looking for a Production Assistant to join their Production Directorate of talented Storytellers, Producers and Creatives. The Production Directorate supports the rest of the organisation (namely, Strategy, Funding, Fundraising and Partnerships Departments) to deliver outstanding creative content, taking strategic briefs and helping bring them to life through creativity, authenticity, and compelling storytelling. Across multiple campaigns of varying sizes throughout the year, the Production Directorate ideates, produces, and delivers cross platform-content using the power of humour and popular culture to engage people to help others, to raise money to support organisations working towards a just world free from poverty.

The Production Assistant will be a key support role to the entire Production function. Reporting to the Senior Production Manager, this role helps facilitate all Production needs, to enable the smooth and efficient delivery of outstanding creative content to both internal and external stakeholders. The Production Assistant will support with pre-production planning, scoping and logistics, maintaining workflows across the teams by keeping key internal systems updated. Supporting to keep the wider team functioning at optimum levels with administrative tasks and reporting to enhance and shape future capabilities. This role will support content delivery across broadcast, digital, social channels as well as copy and design.

This is an exciting opportunity to get involved with a dynamic team, we are looking for someone eager to explore all possibilities within creative trends, an individual with their finger eagerly on the pulse of pop culture.

Key Responsibilities:

Production:

• Production logistics to include research and booking of travel, accommodation, call sheets and schedules for both UK and International recces and shoots

• Supporting with international Fixers, Producers and Directors

• Acquiring filming permissions and press accreditations

• Outsourcing kit for UK and International shoots and arranging hire/agreements

• Supporting with float & expenses (requesting float, reconciling float and credit cards)

• Maintaining production & edit schedules

• Managing consent forms (digital and hard copy) – logging, scanning, filing, and updating database with precision and accuracy

• Logging and processing music clearances (commercial and BBC Fastclear)

• Supporting with archive licences

• Supporting with content/asset management and updating database systemsSupport with deliverables in and out from/to CR/BBC/Production CompaniesPost-production paperwork Outsourcing translations

Administrative:

• Support with internal communications and external relationships

• Supporting with weekly/monthly team meetings

• Supporting PM with contracting and onboarding freelancers

• Supporting PM with Diversity and carbon efficiency monitoring

• Managing Production Contact Bible

• Troubleshooting with administrative tasks

Person Specification

Essential Criteria:

• Good understanding of all stages of production and cross-platform delivery

• Extremely organised, methodical and detail-oriented with a desire to work within streamlined operational processes

• Competent at multi-tasking, progressing any number of tasks simultaneously

• Competent at word, excel, PowerPoint

• Ability to work proactively and effectively as part of a busy multi-disciplinary team

• Able to adapt to evolving internal and external processes

• Strong communicator via a variety of platforms such as email, phone and in person

Desirable Criteria:

• A flexible approach to collaborative working

• Experience working within a fluid production environments

• Experience with processing music clearances

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Comic Relief we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why work at Comic Relief

There are lots of good reasons to join us at Comic Relief. You can read more about our employee benefits, such as our commitment to flexible and hybrid working. We ask staff to come to the office twice a week, normally on agreed team days, so that we can do all those things that are difficult to do online. Our office is based in Whitechapel, London, There are lots of opportunities to develop your skills and experience at Comic Relief, including opportunities to become a Mental Health First Aider or to participate in our Employee Network Groups that focus on making Comic Relief a more inclusive place to work.

Disability Confident employer

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we take positive action by providing first-round interviews to candidates who have a registered disability, provided they meet the minimum criteria for the role, as demonstrated on their CV.

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