Position: Production Director

Organization: Girl Effect

Location: Delhi

Apply: https://global.girleffect.org/careers/?gh_jid=5520862002&gh_src=dbf86d042us

Job Responsibilities

• Support Head of Create with department strategy and operations, including budgeting, resourcing, and planning. Oversee and track the Global Create budget
• Maintain a macro content/product schedule to accurately reflect all creative production activity at Girl Effect
• Communicate learnings and processes across the business to foster strong in-house production and commissioning knowledge within Girl Effect
• Build an international network of creative and production industry-experts that provide capacity-building expertise for in-country teams
• Partner with Procurement on sourcing and contracting processes for creative agencies, production partners and freelancers/consultants
• Work with Finance and Programmes on budget reviews and reforecasts
• Provide ballpark budgets and costs during Programme Design phases
• Facilitate effective communication across geographies and back to the global Create team
• Advise on local production schedules and budgets when required
• Advise on capacity-building solutions for new ventures, product improvements or product innovations
• Develop direct relationships with local in-house creatives where appropriate
• Develop direct relationships with local creative/production companies where appropriate

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• You have around 10-15 years’ production or creative project management experience at a media owner/publisher or creative agency
• Experience of directly managing production partners, agencies and consultants to create quality creative work
• Experience of working directly with Creatives in a range of disciplines, including but not limited to, creative directors, copywriters, scriptwriters, designers, illustrators, crew, creative producers, creative agencies.
• Experience of scoping high-value creative projects and contracts of up to and over £250,000
• Experience of complex matrix reporting and working in cross-functional teams
• Multiplatform or integrated production experience
• Knowledge and experience of working across all stages of a creative project (strategy and research, creative and/or editorial development, technical development and build, scoping, budgeting, pre-production, production, post-production, quality assurance, reconciliations, retrospectives, etc.)
• Experience of maximising efficiency and effectiveness in creative and production processes
• International experience and knowledge of behaviour change initiatives that deliver reach and impact is desirable
• Nuanced cultural sensitivity is critical