Coordinating Producer
A project or contract Production Coordinator position
Fully remote: working with a USA-based team at Wondery.
Salary: $5,600 (monthly rate)
Wondery is hiring for a Coordinating Producer to support the Ongoing Series and Production Operations teams. This role will support day-to-day production processes across multiple podcast productions and work with show teams to ensure productions are properly resourced and remain on schedule. It is the perfect role for the audio professional who gravitates toward spreadsheets, scheduling, and organization.
You will be vital to the Ongoing Series and Production Operations teams, providing logistical, production, and administrative support. This will include scheduling talent and freelancers, booking studios, communicating schedules (and inevitable schedule changes) with external team members, and maintaining various documents, trackers and schedules. Strong organization and communication skills are absolutely essential for this role.
You will report to the Sr. Managing Producer, Ongoing Series. This is an opportunity to help build and maintain infrastructure and organization for our growing slate of shows. We develop premium content and this role is key to building the foundation under each show.
This is a six month contract position with the possibility to extend. Compensation will be based on location, skillset, and experience and will be no less than $35 an hour.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support the implementation and creation of production calendars and schedules across the department
- Manage deliverable schedules
- Coordinate production logistics, timelines, and expectations with internal staff and external contractors
- Oversee and support producers with remote and studio recordings
- Source contractors and assisting with hiring
- Shepherd assets through the production process
- Own key administrative functions including tracking invoices, managing contracts and production paperwork, and scheduling
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent project management skills with proven ability to pivot and creatively problem solve
- A systematic or process-driven approach to projects with a bias for action
- Skilled at self-direction and strong ownership of project and process
- Effective leadership and diplomatic communication skills
- Solutions oriented
- Podcast obsessed
- Experience with Airtable
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience as a coordinator, producer, production manager or line producer
- Experience with scheduling
- Experience managing multiple productions in a content realm as coordinator, project manager, line producer or the equivalent
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What does a Production Coordinator role normally entail?
The Podcast Taxonomy definition for a role like this in Administration says: “The Production Coordinator is responsible for managing the logistics of the production process from recording to publication, including attaining the required permissions and permits, connecting the various production and recording teams, coordinating the creation of post-production metadata, budgeting, and more.”
This exact role may have different requirements.