Supervising Creative Producer

Supervising Creative Producer

Full-time, Remote, Exempt

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit working to electrify our homes, businesses, and communities. Supported by a world-class research team developing accessible, actionable data, and tools for Americans across the country, Rewiring America is crafting the blueprint for Americans to achieve energy efficiency, tackle nationwide emission goals, improve health, save consumers money, and build the next generation of the American workforce in clean energy.

Position Summary

We are growing our team and seeking an entrepreneurial Supervising Creative Producer to Rewiring America’s Creative, Communications, and Consumer Engagement (CCCE) team.

In this newly created role, you will be essential to overseeing and managing the development of creative assets and campaigns. You will be responsible for aligning and guiding the vision of a project, and navigating the complexities of creating across a wide range of channels and formats, and must enjoy producing across a range of variables, from quick low-budget ideas to higher-production value work. The key is to make electrification actionable, and we need compelling creativity, across all channels and for diverse audiences, to help spark this message.

This position reports to Maddie Gryll, Senior Director of Brand Strategy and Operations.

What You’ll Do

As a Supervising Creative Producer, you will guide a wide array of creative projects, establishing creative direction for each, managing resources, communication, and collaboration among team members and departments, and outsourcing to vendors as necessary.

• Vision and Concept Development: Working closely with the creative, communications, and marketing teams, you’ll help shape, develop, and launch creative concepts and campaigns.
• Creative Decision-Making: With the partnership of our Head of Comms and Creative, Senior Director of Brand Strategy, Head of Marketing, Creative Director, and other team members, you will play a critical role in shaping creative decisions, ensuring the project maintains brand integrity and drive toward our organizational objectives.
• Project Management & Operations: With the support of our Project Management Coordinator, you’ll set and stick to detailed project plans, timelines, and budgets. This means coordinating time and resources across multiple departments, and ensuring that everyone is working together effectively. You’ll work with our Sr. Director, Brand Strategy & Operations, to create a budget for each project, then directly oversee the people, services, tools, and physical goods required to bring it to life.
• Production Coordination: You will directly manage the production process, ensuring smooth workflow and efficient communication between different departments. You will swiftly and proactively address any challenges or issues that arise during production and find effective solutions to keep the project on track.
• Team Coordination and Leadership: You will be the first member of our creative production studio, which means creating things, as well as contracting freelance partners and co-creation partners to bring concepts to life. Eventually, you will manage another producer, and possibly a suite of regular freelancers, for whom you will provide strategic guidance, support, and motivation.
• Quality Control: You are responsible for ensuring all assets and campaigns meet our standards throughout the creative process. You will review and provide feedback on creative deliverables, ensuring they meet the project's requirements and align with our vision.
• Contributor & Stakeholder Management: You will act as a liaison between our creators and other internal departments, ensuring that the needs of each department are appropriately translated to our work.

Requirements

Who You Are

We are seeking a creative and experienced producer to join our dynamic team. As producer, you will be in charge of all projects involving the creation of digital media. Your duties will span everything from brief to launch, including creating concepts for new designs, staffing and overseeing creative production, and ensuring all content enhances the Rewiring America brand.

The incoming Supervising Creative Producer will be driven by a commitment to Rewiring America’s values, vision, and mission. Through their track record of creating visually compelling and thought provoking experiences across digital, print, out-of-home, social, audio, and/or video, the successful candidate embraces the idea that we can create transformational campaigns and touchpoints, and demonstrates humility, curiosity, and a learner’s mindset along the way. They recognize that the stakes of what we are trying to accomplish depend on a passionate, high-functioning, and reliable team that’s excited about trying things that have never been tried before.

The successful candidate demonstrates enthusiasm for making hard things easy, and models excellence and integrity in all they do. The selected candidate will also possess the following Core and Preferred qualifications and characteristics:

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualizing, developing, and producing compelling content that aligns with the organization's mission and brand.
• Working closely with other team members, including writers, designers, video producers, researchers, and our comms team to bring creative ideas to life.
• Managing the logistical aspects of content production, including scheduling, revisions, budgeting, and QA.
• Reviewing and providing feedback on creative work to ensure it meets quality standards and aligns with the organization's vision.
• Staying updated on the latest trends in content production/channels, and incorporating relevant trends into the organization's creative output.

Core Skills

• Strong commitment to the mission, policies, and goals of Rewiring America.
• Proven ability to provide clear creative direction and vision for projects, both written and verbal. This involves incubating ideas, offering creative insights, and providing feedback that enhances the overall quality of a team’s creative output.
• Experience managing and overseeing the creative production process from conception to completion. This includes handling budgets, schedules, and resources, while ensuring the project aligns with the overall vision and objectives.
• Ability to adapt creative projects based on the feedback and needs of various stakeholders, such as marketing teams, partner departments, executive leadership teams, and external partners. This includes managing expectations, coordinating feedback, and receiving feedback with open-mindedness and an eye toward continually improving our quality of work.
• Experience managing teams of art directors, video editors, copywriters, designers, and developers, either full-time and contract.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities with grace and good humor.

Preferred

• 3-5+ years of creative production experience.
• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience.
• Strong writing and copy editing skills.
• Experience with advocacy and/or consumer brands.
• Basic video editing and production skills.
• Facility with digital and social ad specs and formats.
• A strong creative portfolio of work.
• Experience developing audio products and a strong ear for music and sound effects.
• Excellent references demonstrating a strong track record in digital and/or video production.

• Content knowledge or enthusiasm for learning about climate, renewable energy, and/or building electrification.
• Can write an excellent electric pun!

Benefits

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $90,000 - $120,000 USD commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). Employees are able to enroll in 401k retirement plans and are eligible for a 3% automatic contribution and up to a 3% employer match on 401k contributions. Employees are also eligible for pre-tax transportation benefits. Employees will receive 160 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health leave, up to 2 days of casual leave, and 20 hours of volunteer leave annually. Employees will also receive 13 paid holidays throughout the calendar year (15 days during Presidential and Congressional elections). We have an office closure between Christmas and New Year. Employees are eligible for 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave after 90 days of employment. Regular, full-time employees and part-time employees are eligible to take up to sixteen weeks of parental leave, in all cases related to birth, adoption, or foster care starting from the first day of employment. We offer access to professional development resources. This position is a full-time exempt opportunity and is remote.

Commitment to Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Rewiring America values diversity in all its forms and is committed to inclusive and transparent recruitment, hiring and promotion processes. Candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply.

Hiring Statement

Rewiring America is a project of Windward Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. Windward Fund is committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. Windward Fund ‘s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.

Application Procedure

To apply or nominate a candidate, please submit an application and resume via the Rewiring America page at Workable.This position is open until filled, and we are moving quickly to fill this position -- apply as soon as possible. Candidate review and phone screens begin immediately and will be conducted throughout the search period.

COVID-19 Policy

To center the safety and well-being of its employees, Windward Fund requires that any employee who is required to conduct in-person activities for their job must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 within four weeks of their start date. Accommodations may be sought and approved in accordance with the law by contacting human resources at jobs@rewiringamerica.org.

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