Job Description

At Brown Bag Films, our motto is simple: "We love animation." In fact, we love it so much we trademarked it! 'We Love Animation(TM).' We are one of the World's most exciting, original and successful creative-lead animation studios with studios in Toronto, Dublin and Bali.




We are currently hiring for a Production Coordinator to support our team at the Toronto studio.




Purpose: Why you're here at Brown Bag Films


- To ensure that all assigned aspects of the Production are executed in a timely manner, of high quality and in accordance with the schedule in liaison with the Producer, the crew and/or external partners.




Delivery: What you produce


- Weekly reports for Producer


- Priority task lists for departments, and crew as needed


- Agendas, note-taking and follow-up


- Micro-schedules.




Measurements: How we measure it


- On-target completion of assigned aspects of production


- Clean and accurate tracking systems


- Efficient and effective communication across the production phases and departments


- Feedback from Producer and 360 feedback from Director and Supervisors.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities: What you are regularly responsible for doing


- Depending on the Production, responsibilities may include ensuring Script coordination and breakdowns, voice records coordination, storyboard and leica coordination, asset tracking, animation tracking (including compositing and FX), and postproduction coordination.


- Acting as a point of contact for all activities related to assigned production.


- Scheduling meetings, reviews, taking and tracking notes, ensuring thorough preparation, facilitating the discussion, and implementing follow-up notes.


- Leading production tracking of assigned departments, flagging issues and offering suggestions to the Producer.


- Identifying Production bottle necks and flagging them to the Producer.


- Engaging and supporting the Artists and Supervisors, ensuring they have the tools required to complete their tasks.


- Assisting the Producer in preparing materials for reviews and deliveries.


- Managing input and output for outsourced shipments, when applicable


- Preparing weekly reports and providing administrative support for the Producer.


- Assisting Producer in sourcing marketing materials.


- Assisting in wrap procedures, mid and postmortems.


- Assisting Producer in Award Submissions.


- Assisting in creating As Produced Scripts.


- Assisting in creating marketing Stills.

Key Requirements

Requirements for the role: Things that help you do your job (what is essential & what is desirable)




- Knowledge


o Good understanding of production pipeline, schedules and deadlines, project management techniques.


o Good knowledge of working with unions (WGC, ACTRA).




- Experience


o Previous Production Coordination experience desirable, ideally in animation industry.


o Experienced in maintaining tracking documents.




- Technical skills


o Microsoft Office, in particularly Excel, Outlook, Calendar, Sharepoint and Final Draft.


o Basic use of Photoshop and Acrobat.


o Ability to use asset tracking software e.g. Autodesk's Shotgrid.




Lived experience and/or in-depth knowledge of Mexican culture and languages (particularly Spanish) would be considered an asset for this role.


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Why work with us?




Perks! Perks! Perks! Not only is 9 Story Media Group / Brown Bag Films an amazing place full of artists, animators and creators from all corners of the industry, but we focus on helping staff grow and develop in their careers and make them long time team members. Along with a great work environment we offer first-rate health + dental benefits, summer hours, paid Health and Wellness Days, vacation periods that multiply with tenure, and more! We may love animation, but we love our employees even more!




Our Toronto office can be found in the cool and trendy Liberty Village with over 200 artists working on award winning animated children's content. You will benefit from a competitive compensation package, interesting work and a fun/supportive work environment.




Applicants need to be legally eligible to work in Canada.




We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.




9 Story Media takes diversity and inclusion seriously and we are committed to ensuring equity in the recruitment process. Candidates from diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, Indigenous peoples, Racialized and LGBT2SQ+ communities, candidates from a range of ages and religious beliefs and people with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. Should you require accommodation throughout the recruitment process, please let us know your requirements when contacted.




As a company, we deliver high-quality kids' content, and we seek to have diverse characters so that all our audience feels represented. We also want the same for our own workforce, and 9 Story Media is committed to looking for all kinds of talent to build a diverse workforce in which all identities are represented and respected.

Salary

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