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Creative producer (integrated)

Creative producer (integrated)

locationLondon, UK
ExpiresExpires: 06/11/2024
Production / Post-Production & Technical
Permanent position
Mid-Level

Deadline: 11.59pm, 6 November 2024

Salary: £35,000-£40,000 (full-time, 37.5 hours per week) with paid overtime 

Term: Permanent

Location: Small Axe Office, London (we expect new starters to come into the office every day).

 

Join a multidisciplinary, integrated and highly collaborative delivery team, focused on winning progressive campaigns. 

A Creative Producer at Small Axe works within our Campaigns Delivery team. This core team and extended network is made up of campaigners, digital experts, designers, press advisors, filmmakers and content creators who work collaboratively to produce powerful campaigns.

A Creative Producer helps bring to life creative ideas and content across a variety of platforms and mediums to cut through the noise and move people to act on the most important issues of our time.

You will work flexibly across a variety of campaigns. From trade union actions like Amazon’s first unionisation drive in the UK, to issue campaigns like Free School Meals for All and dignity for refugees. You’ll produce high-quality digital fundraising content for the International Rescue Committee responding to global conflicts and crises.

Collaborating closely with our brilliant Campaigns Delivery team made up of campaigners, designers, a network of creatives, and a broad range of clients and partners, you’ll produce film, photography, graphics, websites, billboards, podcasts and more.

We’re looking for someone with at least 3-5 years of direct or transferable experience under their belt who can get stuck straight in. That could be in a creative or digital agency, in a studio, or in campaigning roles.

 

Responsibilities

  • Produce end-to-end high-quality creative including digital, original film & photography, websites, print and branding projects, OOH (and more) from concept to delivery

  • Put together timelines, budgets, briefs and run sheets to produce events, photoshoots, creative content in multiple mediums

  • Input into creative concepts, creative reviews and project wash-ups

  • Use AGILE principles to maintain daily momentum and tracking on multiple projects; keeping clients, collaborators and team to schedule and budget on creative deliverables

  • Support other project leads and cross-disciplinary teams to collaborate and communicate effectively to create high-quality and impactful work

  • Identify resourcing requirements and source, commission, brief and organise teams for production including internal colleagues and suppliers (eg animators, actors, venues) 

  • Hold day-to-day communication with at least one client. Communicate confidently and sensitively with partners and support the team to process and action feedback

  • Plan, execute and produce film & photo shoots - including travel logistics, collaborator liaising, scheduling, on-site production, health and safety requirements

  • Create or complete content natively on social platforms and post content. 

  • Make lo-fi film and photo content using mobile phones including capturing & editing, employing simple software like CapCut or Canva 

  • Identify scope creep or budget issues and flag them promptly to project leads

  • Support in improving production processes to make them more effective or efficient e.g. documentation, asset storage, quality assurance, capacity planning and feedback

  • Support in expanding our creative freelance network by identifying new collaborators, setting up trials and maintaining our collaborator database

 

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

  • Strong examples of production work to date 

  • Experience of project management 

  • Experience of end-to-end production process, keeping to budgets and deadlines

  • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team

  • Experience of working in a fast-paced environment

  • Comfortable communicating across multiple digital platforms and project management tools eg Favro, Slack, Airtable

  • Confidence to pick up new tools as new creative tech emerges (e.g. CapCut, Canva, AI plug-ins, Veed.io)

Desirable

  • Experience of working on or volunteering with social or political campaigns

  • Copywriting experience e.g. scripts, decks, social media graphics and posts, etc

  • Ability to take a good photo or shoot a video on a smartphone

  • Experience in making simple edits via Adobe Creative Cloud

  • Understanding of design principles across different platforms

 

Please note that all creative roles at Small Axe require a DBS check - as much of our campaigning work takes place in schools. Small Axe will arrange DBS checks for new staff once they’re in post. 

If you have any questions about the process, feel free to email hr@thesmallaxe.org. All candidates must have Right to Work in the UK. 

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries. 

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Level of experience

  • Mid-Level