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Comic Relief · 23 hours ago

Director, Production

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$125K/yr - $130K/yr

10+ years exp

Comic Relief believes comedy can move culture and change the world. They are seeking a Director of Production to lead their creative, marketing, and campaign work, ensuring that ambitious ideas are delivered with excellence across various initiatives.

CharityNon ProfitSocial

Responsibilities

Own the operational delivery of Comic Relief’s creative and marketing work across campaigns, content, events, and advertising

Establish and maintain production workflows, processes, and standards that enable teams to do their best work efficiently and consistently

Design and run meeting structures, project intake, prioritization, and communication rhythms for a growing, cross-functional department

Lead large-scale, interdisciplinary projects that require participation across multiple departments

Establish interdepartmental workflows with an eye toward efficiency, speed, clear communication, and accountability

Lead planning and production for national campaigns, including awareness, integrated marketing, and fundraising initiatives

Oversee event production for benefit comedy shows and live activations, including project planning from creative development through delivery, production resourcing, contracting, and daily operations

Manage video and content production from pre-production through final delivery across formats (short-form, long-form, digital, social, broadcast) including resourcing, contracting, legal/insurance, physical production, post, etc

Oversee advertising production across multiple agency partners, including creative development and asset production for paid, owned, and pro bono media

Ensure creative assets are produced, trafficking-ready, QA’d, and delivered on time to support marketing, media, and campaign needs ensuring the right formats, timelines, and standards for distribution

Oversee the production of internal and partner-facing materials, including pitch decks, partnership one-sheets, fundraising collateral, institutional proposals, and presentation assets

Manage deliverables for cross-departmental stakeholders, including Fundraising (corporate, institutional, and individual donors) and Grantmaking & Impact, ensuring materials are accurate, compelling, and aligned with brand and mission

Coordinate with creative leads to ensure that messaging and visual storytelling reflect Comic Relief’s brand, mission, and impact strategy

Maintain and update brand assets, templates, and presentation tools to support internal teams and external engagements

Ensure internal deliverables are formatted, QA’d, and presentation-ready, and that they meet quality and timeline expectations across multiple departments and audiences

Identify, vet, onboard, and manage external agencies, production partners, and individual freelancers

Develop scopes of work, timelines, and budgets for agencies and freelance resources

Oversee agency and contractor performance, ensuring quality, accountability, and alignment with creative and strategic goals

Grow, evolve, and maintain Comic Relief’s go-to roster of agencies and freelance partners, ensuring access to high-quality creative, production, and technical resources across disciplines. Freelancers include writers, designers, content creators, comedians, video editors, motion designers, music and sound designers, photographers, voice over artists, etc

Serve as the primary operational lead for production-related vendor relationships including agencies, production companies, and music, photo, and video licensing services

Lead project management for short- and long-term deliverables, including intake, scoping, scheduling, resourcing, and delivery

Track timelines, dependencies, and risks; proactively identify issues and solve for potential issues

Ensure leadership has clear visibility into status, trade-offs, and decision points

Maintain quality control across all work products

Manage production budgets, vendor costs, and resource allocation in partnership with Finance

Oversee technical and production vendors, including CRM- and martech-adjacent partners as needed

Continuously assess workflows and tools, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, clarity, and output

Oversee the organization and maintenance of digital asset library

Qualification

Production LeadershipBudget ManagementEvent ProductionProject ManagementAgency ManagementContent ProductionCreative DevelopmentCollaborationProblem SolvingOrganizational SkillsCommunication Skills