Genre assistant, Drama

Closing date: 18th March 2025

Basic starting salary: £28,000.00 per annum, dependant on experience

Reports to: Commissioning Editor

Location: London

If you're highly organised, collaborative, and thrive under pressure, this is your chance to support the team behind Channel 4's groundbreaking drama lineup.

Channel 4 Drama aims to commission and broadcast the most talked-about and original drama in the UK, commissioning new work from both established and up-and-coming drama writers, in order to be a surprising, thought-provoking, entertaining alternative to the drama output on other channels. We strive to be true to the Channel's remit, balancing the popular with the provocative.

That includes Russell T Davies’ landmark drama about the HIV epidemic It’s A Sin; Helen Walsh’s gripping thriller The Gathering; Queenie – the sharp and funny adaption of the novel of the same name by Candice Carthy Williams; renowned director Ben Wheatly’s Generation Z and most recently for 2025, Brian and Maggie by James Graham. We are also the home of the award-winning, progressive soap Hollyoaks - one of the flagships of the department's output.

Through drama, we are always encouraging audiences to look at the world in a new and different way. In order to achieve this, we seek to create a departmental environment which is adventurous, inspirational and a welcome partner for all voices in the UK scripted industry, with professional and respectful relationships with independent production companies.

This role would suit someone collaborative, energetic and highly organised, with experience in administrative roles.

Job purpose

• To provide the highest level of administrative support to the Drama Commissioning Team.
• To provide cross-genre support to other Commissioning Teams as and when required.

Key responsibilities

• Assist key members of the drama team, providing full administrative support including diary management, travel arrangements, arranging events, dealing with general correspondence, and expenses filing.
• Ensure visitors to the Drama team are handled appropriately.
• Provide holiday/sickness cover for other PA’s within the Commissioning department.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Technical & professional skills

• Proven ability to cope in a very busy environment and to perform in high-pressure situations, able to cope with several tasks at once.
• Proven ability to have and use initiative, but also be able to respond to orders and have a willingness to do whatever is required.
• Proven ability to prioritise tasks and work effectively without supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to be part of a team, work well with others in an open-plan department and deal politely with visitors from other companies.
• Possess a keen attitude and a willingness to learn.
• Flexibility, patience, perseverance and commitment to get the job done.
• Proven ability to work with confidential materials and issues.
• Always display a helpful attitude whilst managing diaries carefully and sensitively.
• Ability to assist with the creation of PowerPoint presentations.

Autonomy/Judgement/Decision making

• Expected to manage their own workload by prioritising accordingly and reporting back on completion.

Relationship management

• Builds valued and trusted relationship within Commissioning, with senior members of the Commissioning Team, and across the business in order to handle confidential matters appropriately and effectively.
• Some members of the team will be based in different offices across the UK, and so the Genre Assistant must also be happy to develop relationships remotely.
• Maintains relationships with peers across all departments.

Complexity/Problem solving

• Proven ability to operate within an ever-changing environment as well as dealing with both routine and non-routine problems.
• Proven ability to work efficiently under pressure.

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

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.