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Deadline for applications: 10th May 2024Salary: £32,000 per annum Are you an experienced, talented and multi-skilled layout sub-editor looking for your next role within a busy team?The Stage Media Company has an excellent full-time opportunity for an experienced, talented and multi-skilled layout sub-editor to work across both its well-established and long-running titles: The Stage, the essential title covering the UK theatre industry, and The Bookseller, the leading trade magazine and website for the publishing industry in the UK.We require an eagle-eyed, meticulous and SEO-savvy sub with strong InDesign and Photoshop skills, and experience of web publishing platforms, to work across web and print, ensuring that quality meets the highest levels of accuracy and house style.Work will be split evenly across web and print. Applicants must have a keen eye for detail and the ability to work on their own initiative and prioritise tasks. Above all, we are looking for someone with precision for copy editing and a flair for eye-catching headlines and grabby intros.The role will involve closely following the publications’ style guides. An excellent command of English grammar and punctuation is essential. However, please note, that while the role involves writing tasks including headlines and social media posts, this is not a writing role.A journalism qualification, including media law, is essential, as is an interest in, and knowledge of, the theatre and UK books industries. This role would suit an accomplished sub-editor with extensive experience of working on established publications (trade/consumer/nationals) who enjoys web publishing as much as print layout work and is keen to develop their sub-editing career as part of a busy and multi-skilled production department. Experience of supervising a team of sub-editors would be an advantage. The main purpose of the role<ul><li>To sub and publish content across The Stage and The Bookseller's digital and print publications, ensuring that quality meets the highest levels of accuracy and house style.</li><li>To edit and publish web stories, reviews, features and columns, as well as lay out magazine and newspaper pages using InDesign, with both flair and attention to detail, and to agreed deadlines.</li></ul> Responsibilities<ul><li>Contribute to editorial production, following quality, house style and speed of delivery requirements</li><li>Create/develop page templates as required</li><li>Sub and post copy to the website using the company's web publishing platform</li><li>Sub and lay out allocated pages for weekly paper/ magazine using Adobe InDesign</li><li>Create and publish eye-catching social media posts</li><li>Complete allocated pages and online content to agreed daily deadlines</li><li>Always work towards accepted style, standards and legal requirements</li><li>Locate/source pics when necessary</li><li>Assume responsibility for tasks requiring greater input on design/layout</li><li>Create/develop page templates as required</li><li>In the event of the absence of both head of production and production manager, and with support from the editor, oversee the production schedule, allocating work as required and ensuring that deadlines are met, including passing pages to the printers</li><li>Supervise relevant production team members when required, as above</li><li>Support the production manager as required</li><li>Provide cover for team members as required</li><li>Assist with training and offer support to other members of the production dept</li><li>Assist with training and offer support to other depts where required</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>First-class copy-subbing and layout skills</li><li>Thorough working knowledge of InDesign and Photoshop</li><li>Journalism qualification including media law</li><li>Experience of using web publishing platforms, eg WordPress</li><li>Excellent written and verbal skills</li><li>Social media skills – crafting eye-catching posts and tweets</li><li>Proven experience of meeting production deadlines</li><li>Knowledge of SEO (desirable)</li><li>Experience of supervising a team of sub-editors (desirable)</li><li>Illustrator skills (desirable)</li><li>Organised, cooperative and demonstrates excellent attention to detail</li><li>Able to positively contribute to a team-oriented, collaborative environment</li><li>Ability to balance competing priorities</li><li>Ability to work calmly under pressure</li><li>Able to work independently and also as part of a team</li><li>Willingness to participate in continual learning</li><li>Intuitive to business needs</li></ul>This list is non-exhaustive and may be amended from time to time depending on the requirements of the role. The Stage Media Company welcomes people from a range of backgrounds, and with different perspectives. We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and encourage applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and abilities.Please let us know if you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the application and/or recruitment process.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

The Stage Media Company Limited

Senior production sub-editor

Closing date: 22nd May 2024Salary: £26,394 - £30,196 This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with a passion for film and technology to join a multi-versatile Technical team.Warwick Arts Centre is the largest multi-art form Arts Centre outside London. We are one of the region’s leading learning, visual arts, cinema and performing arts venues. We are looking for a motivated, passionate, inclusive, collaborative and technically skilled Cinema Projection &amp; AV Technician to join the team.You will be an active member of the Technical team, and play a pivotal role in bringing events to life, supporting the delivery of all technical aspects of both our live program and our cinema screenings and events. You will work closely with the Senior Projection &amp; AV Technician to ingest content, adverts and create playlists at Warwick Arts Centre’s three digital cinemas, whilst supporting the wider Technical team’s AV requirements across the wide range of events that take place across our multi-venue Arts Centre. It is essential that you are a collaborative, positive and pro-active individual who also has a good understanding of projection and AV.In this role, you'll specialise in live cinema projection, digital technologies, audiovisual, and simple sound operations, all within the context of the performing arts. Your primary responsibility will be to uphold the highest standards of technical presentation for all events while maintaining a keen awareness of health and safety regulations.Flexibility is key in the event industry, and you'll need to be prepared to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends. Please note a 5% availability allowance is included in the advertised salary scale.If you have some experience of live cinema or AV, this might have been as part of another arts organisation, or conference team then please do consider applying. We are looking for someone who works well independently and as part of a team, who can keep themselves motivated and is interested in developing relationships with our customers, acting as an ambassador for the Arts Centre. Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>Educated to a minimum of GCSE grade A-C in English and Maths</li><li>Professional experience in sound in a technical theatre environment</li><li>Previous professional experience in delivering Projection services, Sound and AV technologies in a live theatre performance or Cinema environment</li><li>Previous professional experience of providing at least one of the following: lighting rigging and operation; technical stage Management including rigging of lifting equipment and counterweight flying; cinema Projection; theatre carpentry</li><li>Experience of supervision of casuals, freelancers, students, visiting technical staff as required, external contractors.</li><li>Proven excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.</li><li>Ability to maintain a flexible and creative approach with artistic sensitivity.</li><li>A proven ability to work on own initiative to solve problems in venues.</li><li>An awareness of Health and Safety in the workplace including but not limited to manual handling, LOLER or PUWER, COSHH, Noise at work.</li><li>Good IT skills - Mac &amp; Windows</li><li>The ability to work long, unsocial hours. Working at height, with low light, manual handling and trip hazards in a sometimes dirty, noisy environment &amp; night working.</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>Industry / electrical / projection / Health &amp; safety qualification</li><li>Proven relevant vocational CPD training e.g. ABTT awards, PLASA rigging, IPAF, MEWP training</li><li>Competent in CAD packages</li><li>Possession of a full clean driving license</li></ul>Warwick Arts Centre is a department of the University, and the successful candidate will be employed by the University of Warwick. What we offer We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 26 days holiday plus customary &amp; statutory day allowance. Potential overtime and BECTU get out payments. Excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.  For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong, a place of fairness and equity and to be an organisation that reflects the diversity of its city. If this sounds like somewhere you would like to work, we would like to hear from you.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Warwick Arts Centre

Cinema projection & AV technician

Closing date: 12pm, 29th April 2024Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 depending on experience, plus a company-wide performance-related bonus. Work on exciting creative briefs from pre to post-production in this senior-level role. Locate Productions is a full-service stills and moving image production company. We provide film, stills, social, digital and experiential content for a wide range of brands, agencies and production companies across the globe and consider ourselves experts in all aspects of location servicing. Our focus lies in producing work that’s authentic and aligned to our ethos of placing people and the planet alongside profit.The Production Manager role is multi-skilled, multi-faceted and will require an expert in organisation and communication. As someone with good experience in production, as well as a working knowledge of location management processes, you’ll be involved day-to-day with incoming briefs from new and existing clients, while supporting the team in winning new projects and servicing them through all stages of the production process.You’ll play a crucial role in executing processes to align with our company principles, ensuring we continuously measure, review and improve as a company.The role will also support our marketing and communications department; contributing to key industry and sustainability events, as well as our social media output. Responsibilities<ul><li>Fielding incoming briefs from clients via phone and email; often acting as first point of contact within the company.</li><li>Creating pitching decks, estimates, call sheets, schedules, contracts and invoices.</li><li>Checking availability &amp; briefing of crew &amp; suppliers, organising hotels, coordinating travel and production equipment.</li><li>Researching and checking availability of locations; organising scout/recce schedules and paperwork as needed.</li><li>Liaising with casting directors, briefing talent &amp; extra agencies, assisting with the necessary release forms, contracts, child licenses, and talent correspondence and management. Management of talent licensing renewals.</li><li>Assisting producers &amp; project managers with projects and carrying out AdGreen carbon calculations.</li><li>Tracking of crew training, client activity, pending/live jobs and diversity metrics.</li><li>Managing the flow of obtaining portfolio work and final assets through to communicating these digitally/socially.</li><li>Assisting communications manager with the organisation of industry events and sustainability initiatives.</li><li>Wider contribution to ongoing sustainability research and social media post creation and scheduling.</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Demonstrable understanding and experience of commercial photography &amp; moving image production; from pre-production through to production.</li><li>Exposure to and experience of quoting and/or budget management.</li><li>Highly organised with excellent written/verbal communication skills. Ability to liaise professionally and confidently to clients, crew, photographers, directors, suppliers and staff.</li><li>A sharp eye for detail and quality control.</li><li>The ability to work across numerous projects simultaneously.</li><li>Creative problem solver with flexible approach and ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.</li><li>A desire to be an important part of a close-knit, hard-working team while able to work proactively and independently.</li><li>Passion and keen interest in sustainability and sustainable production practices.</li><li>A desire to help us on our journey to developing a business that places social and environmental values alongside profitability.</li><li>Proficiency and confidence working across a standard suite of office software; e.g. spreadsheets, keynote/PowerPoint.</li><li>Experience using invoicing software such as Xero preferred, but training can be provided.</li></ul> Benefits and working arrangements25 days of paid annual leave in addition to bank holidays. Plus an extra day off on your birthday and the period between Christmas &amp; New Year on a discretionary basis.This is a full time role, likely to be split across our offices in Brighton and London as needed. Some flexibility with working arrangements and remote working can be discussed during the application process. All expressions of interest should be received by midday on Monday 29 April.Please send CV and covering letter by clicking the 'Apply' button.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.

Locate Productions Ltd

Production manager

Application deadline: 10am, Monday 6th May 2024Salary: £33,000 per annumTerms: Permanent, full time    Work alongside seasoned professionals, supporting creative teams and managing budgets to deliver exceptional productions at Donmar Warehouse.We are seeking an Assistant Producer who will work closely with the Senior Producer and Company Manager to ensure that all productions are delivered to the best possible standards. The role includes supporting freelance artists and companies to create their best work and working closely with other Donmar departments. The successful candidate will have experience of producing theatre productions in the subsidised or commercial theatre sector, with ambitious creative and production teams. They will be a highly skilled administrator with an understanding of and ability to manage production budgets, financial processes and contracts, and will have exceptional attention to detail, time management and prioritisation skills. They will also possess excellent communication and negotiation skills, and enjoy working with a wide variety of people to achieve shared goals. This role will suit a candidate looking to consolidate their professional experience gained in a producing theatre or a commercial production company, with ambitions to become a theatre producer or general manager in the future. Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>Experience of working as part of a producing team in a professional producing theatre or commercial production company</li><li>Experience and understanding of production budgets, departmental budgets, managing expenditure and/or financial reporting</li><li>Experience of negotiation and drafting creative team, actor and stage managements contracts</li><li>Excellent administrative and organisational skills</li><li>Strong IT skills and computer literacy</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills</li><li>Proactive, positive attitude towards working with others and under own initiative</li><li>High level of attention to detail and precision</li><li>Ability to prioritise and balance competing demands under pressure</li><li>Clear understanding of the production process and the various roles within theatre-making</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>Experience of working with senior creative teams and artists</li><li>Experience of working with six figure production budgets</li><li>Experience of managing press nights</li><li>Experience of administering payrolls</li><li>Ability to work at pace in a fast-changing environment</li><li>Knowledge of Equity/BECTU/MU/WGGB/UKT agreements</li><li>Good working knowledge of current theatre landscape, including personnel</li></ul> Timeline<ul><li>Interview round one: Monday 13 May</li><li>Interview round two: Week beginning Monday 20 May</li></ul> Please note that we do not accept CVs or cover letters; submissions received without correct forms, or outside of our online portal Breathe will be declined.If you have any questions, or require an alternative format to apply, please email <a href="mailto:jobs@donmarwarehouse.com" target="_blank">jobs@donmarwarehouse.com</a>.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.

Donmar Warehouse

Assistant producer

Application deadline: 12pm, Monday 29 April 2024Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 depending on experienceLocation: Nottingham with some national travel required Interviews: Planned 29 May 2024 Film and Video Umbrella is seeking a Production and Office Manager to co-ordinate and oversee the delivery of the organisation’s multifaceted production activity, working alongside the Director and the FVU team while managing key freelance personnel. The role will ensure that FVU’s commissions are realised to the highest artistic standard, to deadline and within budget, providing creative production and post-production support and expertise, while ensuring that all legal as well as organisational procedures and protocols are followed. The successful candidate will lead on the smooth running of FVU’s offices, in particular the Nottingham office, as well as providing other administrative duties.We are trialling a four day week until the end of September 2024, so the hours when you start will be 28 hours per week. Should the four day week not be made permanent at the end of the trial, then your hours will become 35 hours per week. This will not affect your pay - you will be paid your full time salary, regardless of if the four day week trial is made permanent or not. Our working week is Monday - Friday, 10am – 6pm, but with flexible start and finish times.FVU’s head office will be relocating to Nottingham in May 2024 where the Production and Office Manager will be based, with some national travel required to our new London and Newcastle offices, as well as for production work, and attendance at exhibitions. ResponsibilitiesProduction Manager <ul><li>Work with the Director to scope out timelines, budgets and work plans to best facilitate FVU’s ongoing production activities, assuming direct project management responsibility for certain productions (as appropriate and/or where needed) while also (and in dialogue with and with the approval of the Director) appointing and assisting freelance producer/project manager personnel to deliver other individual components of FVU’s programme, overseeing and communicating progress (and any methodological or budgetary changes) to the Director, Managing Director and Bookkeeper</li><li>Work in tandem with FVU’s Technical Manager, and/or gallery staff at the respective partner venues, to ensure delivery of final files for gallery or other presentation. Work closely with FVU’s Communications &amp; Content Manager to ensure a steady feed of promotional material to help publicise and contextualise the project, including working with the artist and any relevant production management personnel to secure early release press images, video clips etc. </li><li>In addition to this, assisting the Communications &amp; Content Manager in getting any information that they may require from the artists</li><li>Assist the Communications &amp; Content Manager with producing and editing promotional material for FVU’s productions and exhibitions, from editing trailers and interviews with artists to creating clips</li><li>Engage crew and book facilities and equipment where required, ensuring that all relevant parties are appropriately contracted by FVU where necessary. (Artists’ contracts, venue contracts and other partner contracts will be overseen by the Managing Director)</li><li>Working with the relevant project management personnel, ensure all cast and crew receive detailed, accurate and thorough call-sheets in advance of shoots and that all shoots are risk assessed in advance</li><li>Develop and administrate a festival application strategy for each commissioned work</li><li>Follow good practice when filing documentation, keeping production process notes, and generally making sure project administration is well organised and completed, according to FVU protocols, and appropriate to project needs</li><li>Ensure that throughout production all media generated is stored and backed-up according to FVU protocols.</li></ul>Office manager<ul><li>Maintain the smooth operations of FVU’s offices, including the setting up of and managing of key supplier relationships and ensuring that regular office supplies (stationery, cleaning products, IT equipment, basic kitchen supplies etc.) are maintained at agreed levels</li><li>Working with the Technical Manager, develop and maintain FVU’s archives and filing systems, both physical and digital, including but not limited to print archives, press archives, and still and moving image archives</li><li>Ensure that these are rationalised and kept neatly and are always backed-up appropriately, ensuring that the team are clear on where and how to file items maintaining archive and filing protocols, and assisting them with filing, where called upon</li><li>Provide basic IT support, trouble-shooting technical issues for the team working with FVU’s freelance IT support team where necessary</li><li>Assist with developing and writing funding applications, and with evaluating and reporting for funders including on-going gathering of quantitative and qualitative information for funder reports, as and where directed to do so</li><li>Manage calls for applications for both projects and recruitment. Help to maintain FVU’s contacts databases</li><li>Be the first point of contact for visitors, for telephone calls, and email enquiries, responding to communications in person and in writing, as directed and manage incoming and outgoing mail and deliveries</li><li>Organise venue, travel, couriers, equipment and other external bookings as requested</li><li>Process and distribute publication orders and maintain up-to-date and accurate publication stock records</li><li>Facilitate loans/distribution of commissioned works where appropriate</li><li>Take care of Environmental monitoring and reporting, ensuring FVU delivers on its Environmental Action Plan</li><li>Assist all members of the FVU team as and where called upon to do so.</li></ul>General<ul><li>Show leadership, compliance and input into workflow management systems and contribute to the ongoing objective to improve and develop FVU’s processes</li><li>Help maintain a productive and appropriate working environment</li><li>Represent and promote FVU at external events</li><li>Proactively engage with and support FVU’s internal performance management culture</li><li>Other such duties commensurate with the level of this role, that may be required to ensure the smooth running of productions and the office generally.</li></ul> Knowledge, skills, experience<ul><li>Experienced in film production from pre- to post- production, with a strong understanding of a variety of production methodologies, and a demonstrable capacity to deliver films on time and in budget</li><li>Experience of budget management</li><li>Experience of drafting and issuing contracts</li><li>A strong leader – capable of managing people with both care and authority</li><li>Highly organised and methodical approach to work</li><li>Able to produce clear, accurate and effective written communications</li><li>Able to predict potential needs, adjustments, and risks, and to manage plans and systems accordingly in order to accommodate such occurrences</li><li>Excellent IT skills and experience using Mac based operating systems</li><li>Good level of numeracy</li><li>Able to plan for and meet regular, immovable deadlines and prioritise a heavy workload effectively</li><li>Able to liaise confidently and productively with external partners</li><li>A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, including Excel</li><li>A good working knowledge of editing software such as Premiere</li><li>Innovative and creative thinker </li><li>Proactive and self-motivated</li><li>Extremely accurate and attentive to detail</li><li>Reliable and conscientious</li><li>Flexible and proactive approach to change</li></ul> Desirable<ul><li>Experience of submitting films to film festivals</li><li>Experience of writing risk assessments</li><li>Experience of working with visual artists, developing artworks / exhibitions</li><li>Experience of running calls for entries</li><li>Experience and success at maintaining/managing/developing archives</li><li>Experience of providing administrative support in a busy professional working environment</li><li>Experience of working in an artistic organisation</li><li>A good working knowledge of image editing software, such as Photoshop</li><li>A good working knowledge of design software, such as InDesign</li><li>User-level knowledge of database software, such as Filemaker</li></ul> You can download a recruitment pack with more details about the role via the Apply button at the top right.We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.

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