- Contents
- Description
- Position Details
- Pay and Benefits
- Qualifications and Experience
- Application Process
Description
Overview
Reporting to the VP, Content Production, this role will oversee multiple television, film and digital productions from a corporate level, ensuring best in class execution. To be successful, a Manager of Content Production should be comfortable with television/film/digital production schedules, budgets, financings and cashflows as well as the related applications and guidelines that come with them. The candidate should be able to work in a fast-paced environment and manage changing and multiple priorities effectively.
Essential Duties
- Assist with the preparation of production financing scenarios, budgets, production and post-production schedules, and cashflows for Canadian content, treaty co-production and service productions.
- Advise, direct and mentor the Production Team.
- Develop content and service tax credit estimates.
- Prepare Canadian funding (e.g., CMF, BellFund, SHAW etc.), tax credit (federal and provincial) and regulatory (e.g., CRTC, ISAN) applications from the beginning to the end of the production lifecycle.
- Engage with multiple production and post-production teams to manage productions on a corporate level, providing support such as: cashflow management, ensuring proper insurance coverage, cost report review and analysis, delivering to financiers and broadcasters, ensuring clearance compliance, creating screen credits, managing final audits and ensuring adherence to all of Shaftesbury policies and procedures.
- Work collaboratively with internal Shaftesbury Creative, Business and Legal, Finance and Marketing and Communications teams across multiple productions to ensure the proper flow of information and execution of individual requirements.
- Collaborate with external stakeholders such as unions, lawyers, bankers, auditors, insurance brokers, vendors and financiers to ensure all their individual needs are met.
- Respond to any production, postproduction, or external stakeholder ad hoc requests.
- Remain up to date in current information regarding various funding and tax credit guidelines as well as guild and union agreements.
- Manage regular internal and external departmental meetings
Job Details
Location:
Toronto, Ontario
Pay and Benefits
Salary Range:
$80,000 — $95,000
Benefits:
- Full benefits including dental, vision, and mental health support
- Health spending account to cover additional benefit
Qualifications and Experience
Required Qualifications and Experience:
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience with television financing, tax credits, and production management
- Experience in television and/or film production
- Experience managing, developing and growing small teams with multiple priorities
- Strong understanding of financial and management accounting
- Pro-active, hands-on approach to achieving goals and finishing projects
- Thrives in a changing environment that necessitates working on many projects simultaneously and able to work at the pace of production
- Independent worker that requires minimal supervision
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to effectively communicate with external and internal stakeholders including working closely with C-level executives
- Strong skill in MovieMagic Budgeting, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint required
Application Process
Will an automated HR system be used to filter applicants?
– No.
Will non-shortlisted applicants be notified?
– Yes.
Are interviews flexible? (e.g. different interview formats, times, location, remote option)
– Yes.
To apply, email your details to mrudolph@shaftesbury.ca
Apply on our careers page: https://shaftesbury.bamboohr.com/careers/