Producer - Manchester, United Kingdom - Factory International

Factory International
Factory International
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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Closing date - 04 January 2023

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The Producing Department encompasses Producing, Event Management, Artist Liaison, Scheduling and Production Administration and is responsible for the scheduling, planning and delivery of all our activity.

The team comes from a wide range of backgrounds, and works across all art forms and event formats, delivering work in and around the Factory building, in the digital realm, across the city and internationally.


The principal role of the Producer is to line-produce commissions and events for MIF/ The Factory from their initial development through to their realisation and presentation to the public.

The Producer is responsible for ensuring this process happens on time and to budget, and where required to manage tours to co-commissioner venues or other presenters.


This role will include working outside traditional office hours from time to time including some attendance at evenings and weekends as well as some national/international travel to support projects as required.

There is no paid overtime but we practice flexible working and departments manage time off for additional hours to ensure best practice is followed.

Key responsibilities for the Producer role are;

  • Leading and line producing a number of assigned projects of scale. Responsibility for working closely with artists/creative teams to develop complex commissions from end to end. Recruiting artistic collaborators, undertaking R&D of ideas and drawing up schedules, managing logistics in order to deliver projects to the highest possible standards
  • Working with the Artistic and Creative Director, Executive Producer/Senior Producer to develop and nurture creative relationships with key artists, partners and other organisations to build solid working practices
  • Preparing and managing complex project budgets in consultation with the Executive Producer/Senior Producer using the MIF budget systems and templates. This will include the timely and accurate coding and authorising of purchase requests and invoices, budget forecasting, running and reconciliation as well as regular updating of budget projections and cashflows, together with the provision of other financial information as required
  • Negotiating artist and project team fees and contracts within MIF's contracting system and templates, including commission contracts and underlying rights agreements
  • Working closely with external contractors and internal colleagues across Technical, Artist Liaison, Audiences, Digital, Administration and Finance to provide them with requisite detailed project information so that they can blend their work into each project
  • Work closely with the Audiences, Visitor Experience, Ticketing and Scheduling Teams to coordinate the ticketing set up, announcement, communications strategies and sales targets for projects
  • Chair internal and external meetings for projects as required
  • Working closely with the International team to manage Cocommission and Co-Production relationships, providing touring information, feeding into the contractual process and hosting partners as required.
  • Working with the Executive Producer/Senior Producer to create working models for partner relationships and contracting across a number of organisations
  • Working with the Production Administrators to ensure that information is shared on event management systems (including Artifax) and ensuring that information is continuously kept up to date on these systems
The person spec for the Producer role includes;

ESSENTIAL

  • Experience of managing multiple projects at a range of scales and points of development simultaneously
  • Budget management experience and financial literacy, including complex financial reconciliation
  • Strong negotiation skills and experience of negotiating and writing contracts
  • Ability to engage with and use IT systems appropriate to the organisation
  • Excitement, enthusiasm and competence in supporting artists to develop their work from the early stages of an idea through to ambitious final production results
  • The ability to both work on own initiative and to lead a project team, to assess complicated situations quickly and to identify ways forward creatively
  • Enthusiastic attitude and a flexible approach to developing and delivering work with the ability to manage multiple priorities
  • Commitment to championing representation and inclusion at every level of the organisation with a proven ability to work with people from a wide range of backgrounds

DESIRABLE

  • Experience of working in a wide range of venues/sites
  • Experience of managing relationships with a range of partners in the UK and internationally
  • Knowledge of and enthusiasm for a range of arts and culture
  • Enthusiasm for training, mentoring and support of emerging talent
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