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Closing date: February 4th at 11.59pm

Audio agency Novel is a unique company at a unique point in its evolution. In this exciting role you could take your own concepts from the page to greenlight.

Novel are behind The Bellingcat Podcast. We make Sideways for the BBC. We have a multi-year slate deal with iHeart, and a US number one with Harsh Reality.

With our staff headcount accelerating from 5 to 40 across the pandemic, we’ve spent 2021 assembling the best storytelling minds of their generation into the country’s biggest audio indie. It’s an exciting place to be.

But that growth requires a constant throughput of brilliant ideas to drive it, which is why we’re looking for a Senior Development Producer.

Responsibilities

This Senior Development Producer is someone who can come up with brilliant concepts, and take them from just a line on a page all the way to greenlight.

It’s someone who can come up with narrative series that pack in enough twists to sustain a dozen episodes. Or an Always On concept solid enough to last for years.

It’s a job for someone who can sketch out every plot point on the arc of a new show for one of our big American clients. Someone who can take one look at a pitch that isn’t working, and instantly figure out what new talent, fresh POV or brilliant case studies will make it feel crucial.

You’ll love podcasts, know the business end of the game well, and be fascinated by where this world could go over the next few years - after all, here you’ll be a key player in the path the next phase takes.

Part of the role will involve supervising - and inspiring - more junior colleagues. Part of it will be project-managing. Some will be nurturing access. And a bit more will be working your contacts book to generate talent and ideas.

But above all, this is a job for an ideas person. A list-maker. An iterater. Someone who is never stumped, who is yes-and for everything.

Knowledge, skills, experience

While this role would best suit someone with demonstrable Development chops, we’d be happy to hear from candidates who might be considering a job shift from adjacent industries.

Whoever bags this is going to come with a vast general knowledge, great writing skills, and a talent for abstract thinking and analysis. That might also entail features journalists, non-fiction writers, copywriters, directors, speechwriters, academics, pitch writers, or analyst-creatives from other worlds.

But this is still a job for someone with seniority: you’ve held some proper jobs, and you have some big creative wins you can point to as uniquely yours.

Package

• Competitive salary
• Bupa private medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Pension
• Season ticket loan
• Ride to work scheme
• 23 days of holiday per year + 3 days at Christmas + Bank Holidays

To apply, email your CV to jobs@novel.audio with a clear subject line stating what job you are applying for. Link to a portfolio or such. If you can, point to things you’ve developed, and explain exactly your role in developing them. Then:

1. Tell us about the podcast you a) most and b) least admired last year. And the one you felt showed the way forward for the biz.

2. In 200 words or less, pitch us a podcast Always On show that would work for Gen Z.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.

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