Development/Associate Producer

Development Responsibilities:

• With the Lead Producer and Executive Producer, develop and hone project visions, creatively and commercially.
• Build theatrical models for investment, including format, pricing, and indicative production build and operating budgets
• Ensure that Secret Cinema is creating diverse and best in class projects - running world-class creative development and interrogating the audience experience
• Expand our network of high calibre creative teams
• Produce projects from ideation, defining Project Objectives, Target Audience, Initial Parameters (capacity, timings, flow), and identifying and managing project risks

Production & Live Responsibilities:

• Support producing teams across all areas of pre-production, including for example:
• Attendance at production and creative meetings, rehearsals, tech, previews and show run as required
• Recruitment and management of key roles
• Team coordination, including creative team, operational teams onsite, and venue
• Delegated operational decision making and risk management on behalf of Secret Cinema and the producing team
• Co-ordination of assets and print, including the show programme
• Planning, managing and optimising ancillary commercial activity, including Food, Beverage, Merchandise
• Planning and arrangement of opening night and special events
• Box Office, ticketing and customer service; including management of house seats, guest lists, and customer queries and complaints
• Incident management and follow-up as required
• Liaison with the marketing and PR teams around co-ordination of EPK, shoots and photography 
• Raising of POs, and budget management as required, and supporting regular financial and project administration processes

Management & Resourcing Responsibilities:

• Recruitment, negotiation, supplier management, contracting, and onboarding
• Continuously improve the inclusivity of our Projects, for audiences and teams alike
• Manage resourcing and spend, setting, managing and reconciling budgets, approving POs and signing contracts

Communication & Learning Responsibilities:

• Represent Secret Cinema as required to internal and external stakeholders, including presentations
• Successfully manage and navigate complex relationships
• Work to continuously improve our processes and systems
Other tasks as required from time to time, inline with company objectives

Essential Experience:

• 5+ years commercial theatrical producing on best in class productions (West End equivalent), could be Development or Associate Producer or General Management.
• Strong personal network of theatrical collaborators, and experience working with top level artists.
• Experience managing creative teams through non-traditional development processes
• Familiarity with projects that include Live performance, Large scale set builds, Venue/Site operation.

Essential Skills:

• Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills, with a high attention to detail.
• Excellent project management skills; highly focussed and organised, and able to grasp and wrestle with complex challenges.
• Excellent budgeting and IT skills, including Excel/Sheets.

We're Looking for People Who Are:

• Proactive and able to remain motivated while working independently.
• Inspirational with an ability to motivate and project authority.
• Positive and friendly with a passion for Secret Cinema’s work.
• Comfortable with a dynamically changing environment, and who have sound judgement 
• Able to think outside the box and learn fast, with the desire to pick up new skills and develop new approaches.

Additional Desired Experience:

• Experience working in both the UK and internationally (particularly the USA).
• Immersive event development, with an emphasis on practical and production.
• Experience activating and re-purposing sites for public use.