Vacancy overview

Vacancy New Business Creative Assistant
Employer Strange Beast
Vacancy type Permanent paid job
Reference number New8207
Form of employment Full Time
Salary / Rate £28,000 + dependant on experience
Hours 40.00
Published 23/09/2024
Closing date 23/10/2024

Description

Passion & Strange Beast are recruiting for an exciting entry-level opportunity within their New Business teams.

Strange Beast is a full-service animation production studio based in London. Our work is led by our talented roster of directors, each bringing their own unique style and distinctive tone of voice. We are proud to be part of the PASSION group – an independent production company formed in 1987. 

This role is aimed either at an entry level individual or someone with around a year's experience working within the industry - an individual with a passion for animation, who is curious about both creative and production career pathways.

This is a full-time hybrid role - you will be expected to come into our London studio 3 days per week.

Salary £28k + experience dependent.

Duties

  • Designing director decks and general capability decks with the guidance of our treatment designer, and updating Pitch documents and material.
  • Researching and compiling image & motion references to support the pitch process.
  • Supporting and coordinating New Business team activities, working closely with EPs and Creative Producer.
  • Managing diaries and scheduling meetings for EPs.
  • Booking rooms for all calls for office working days.
  • Sending out Zoom/Teams call invites.
  • Capturing notes of briefing calls and other internal/external calls.
  • Booking lunches for screenings.
  • Helping book travel and accommodation for sales trips.
  • Adding new enquiries onto our database. Maintaining pertinent information.
  • Creating new enquiry/pitch folders on our server.
  • Maintaining our illustration and creative contacts database.
  • Working with new business production team to search, book and liaise with artists and crew during the pitch process.
  • Support booking and onboarding of freelance production and design staff, working with IT to ensure they have desk space if required
  • Helping to facilitate communication & catch ups with talent.

Essential criteria

  • Has a keen interest in illustration, design & animation across all techniques
  • Is highly organised
  • Is a creative thinker
  • Has a huge appetite to learn
  • Enjoys working collaboratively
  • Has exposure or experience in creative software- for example, the Adobe Creative Suite or Google Slides (desirable*)

How to apply

Apply via the LIFT portal and apply button above - please upload your CV and upload your covering letter in the 'covering statement' box. Please include any exposure or experience you may have with any creative software- for example, the Adobe Creative Suite or Google Slides (the latter being our new standard )

Register and attend our information session for more about the role and the agency here: Evenbrite

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