Job Opportunity: Production Executive
An exciting opportunity to executive produce a wide range of live-action, animated, and documentary feature films led by Welsh talent has arisen at Ffilm Cymru.
Past credits include Prano Bailey Bond’s Censor, Lee Haven Jones’ Gwledd / The Feast, Jay Bedwani’s Donna and Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch.
Title: Production Executive
Term: Full-time (Flexible working supported)
Salary: £27-33k per annum (with the lower end of this bracket geared towards candidates who will need on the job training to fulfil the role)
Deadline: Monday 15th August at midday
Interviews: 22nd and 23rd August.
Key Responsibilities
- To read and assess applications for funding in line with our funding guidelines and priority areas, taking an active role in decision-making.
- To provide editorial and strategic guidance to producers in receipt of our production funding, supporting them to consider skills, diversity and inclusion, and green impacts.
- To work closely alongside the company’s Business Affairs Executive to manage Ffilm Cymru approvals on supported projects, reviewing budgets, schedules, scripts, and film cuts among other elements.
- To meet with filmmakers to help advise them on our funding, particularly encouraging a wide diversity of applicants in line with our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Action Plan.
Skills and Experience
- An ability to identify and nurture creative work and diverse talent.
- Previous experience working in a project or talent development capacity within Film, Theatre, Television, Emerging Media, or other relevant industries.
- Experience of identifying opportunities and challenges in written and produced work.
How to Apply
Unless we’ve agreed an alternate application format with you, you should email a CV and cover letter to Ihsana Feldwick on ihsana@ffilmcymruwales.com outlining your availability and your experience and skills against those outlined in the below specification.
Please submit your application by midday, Monday 15th August 2022.
We will offer an automatic interview to all candidates who meet our Minimum Criteria for the role and who identify as People of the Global Majority, as Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic or as D/deaf, hard-of-hearing, Disabled or neurodiverse.
For applicants with access requirements, for example individuals who are D/deaf, hard-of-hearing, Disabled, neurodiverse, and people with sight loss, support is available. Please contact Ihsana@ffilmcymruwales.com.
