Office Production Assistant

JOB TITLE : OFFICE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT 

RadicalMedia London are looking for a new member to join our team!

Ideally you will be pro-active and full of initiative, ready to take on a mix of duties, with no day looking the same

We are a tight knit team, so being personable and easy to get on with is important to us.
The role can be broken into 3 x areas, Office Coordinator / Production Assistant / Visual Creative Researcher

Office Coordinator / PR

• Manage the day to day running of the London office
• General day-to-day tasks like stocking up the fridges, preparing for meetings and answering the phone
• Reconciling office expenses for EPs and company credit cards 
• Managing subscriptions for the office and taxi accounts 
• Helping to organise annual parties for the office, clients and directors
• Setting up video conferencing and recording for meetings
• Controlling festival submissions for commercials and managing a calendar to ensure deadlines aren’t missed
• Managing the festival and awards budget so the appropriate festivals and awards are being attended and submitted t

Production Assistant

• Managing directors travel and accommodation when they are in London visiting or on shoots.
• Helping to organise international visas and travel itineraries for employees and directors
• Helping to manage EP diaries and schedule meetings when necessary
• Liaising with treatment researchers and writers and aiding the EPs in setting the right team for each pitch.
• Setting up the pitch calls with agency / director – recording and logging notes and following up with details for visual researchers.
• Managing the visual library of images and downloading to our archive after each job.
• Creating reels for pitches on our CMS database 
• Create a daily inspiration email with a round up of things going on in the world this includes new talent and new technology and news within the industry.
• Occasionally assist the PM’s and Producers on all aspects of preparing for shoots when needed, eg  pencilling crew / preparing shoot bags / looking for locations.

Visual Creative Researcher:

• This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with directors and be part of the creative development process of pitching on commercials and music videos. You will be an integral part of the creative team, helping our award-winning directors visualise and express their ideas and creating pitch-winning treatments of the highest quality.
• Interest and encyclopaedic knowledge of Film / TV / Photography / Music.
• Interest in or some experience involving art direction, image research and/or layout design.
• Fluent in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.
• Interest in advertising and music video production.
• An understanding of our roster of directors and an ability to cater to their different styles and aesthetics.
• Comfortable working to a brief and responding to feedback

Essentials

Experience working in a production or post company before, or as a Production Assistant is preferable:

• Excellent communicator with great confidence
• Superb organisation and admin skills
• Thorough research skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• A natural at gathering and collating information
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Social media knowledge
• Thrive under pressure and welcome challenges
• Ability to solve problems
• Pro-active, able to juggle multiple projects and work under pressure to strict deadlines.

Nice to haves

• Knowledge of editing is preferable to be able to edit in our in house edit suite – sizzle reels for shows, pitches and mood films.

Please contact Ester on [email protected]  with your CV and a short note as to why you think you’re the right person for the job, and any examples of the kind of work you like / things that make you chuckle.