Entertainment Careers Casting Calls and Auditions

The Company

Horizon Union is a premium gaming & esports organisation delving in all aspects of the gaming industry. Specializing in influencer marketing, gaming, social media, content creation and esports; Horizon is one of the most exciting projects to come to the UK.

Working and operating from the UK, Horizon has been active for more than a year and has seen tremendous growth in both the UK and U.S (and we’re not done just yet!). Horizon Union sits as part of the Kairos Group, a globally leading agency group, renowned for its international operations in the gaming industry. We’re here to stay so come join us!

The Role

As our talent roster is growing as well as the brand itself, we’re always looking into expanding our talent roster to become the best fully servicing 360 organisation in the gaming space. We are now looking for a well versed and experienced candidate with a keen interest in pursuing a career in talent and account management, who can proactively research the gaming landscape, work closely with our team to identify new content creators and ensure business growth.

This role encompasses talent management from top to bottom, ensuring Horizon brings the best in class creators to an exciting organisation in the gaming industry. To do this we are looking for ambitious, confident and personable candidates to support further growth. (Can also be based out of our London and Manchester HQ).

The Responsibilities

• Identify and develop relationships with up and coming, and existing content creators that have yet to reach full potential.
• Help directors to create a robust and effective recruiting strategy targeting the best talent for Horizon to manage and ensure business and creator growth.
• Strategically develop plans for signed talent managed by Horizon to maximize their growth and financial productivity including:
• Develop viewership growth strategy for channels through implementation of YouTube best practices
• Manage Talent channel growth through effectively analysing channel data and turn findings into actionable information
• Help develop channel content and formats
• Coordinate collaborations with other talent
• Creative brand planning and execution
• Develop a strong relationship with the creator roster at Horizon.
• Strong collaboration with the management team to strategize and contribute to action plans for robust and profitable campaigns maximizing the biggest opportunities for talent and Horizon.
• Managing and operating the talent roster efficiently within existing client work.
• Strong understanding of branded content in video and social platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
• Ability to manage projects from inception to completion.
• Experienced in maintaining a P&L or other financial/budgetary function.
• Strong leadership capabilities to lead and grow a promising team.
• Focused and knowledgeable of the competitive landscape in detail

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in entertainment marketing, talent management and/or online video advertising.
• Strong understanding of the team/organisation landscape, from an operational and talent perspective.
• Must be flexible, a strong multi-tasker and willing to work across all functions of a creator roster.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative, team-oriented environment.
• Ability to think big picture, but also roll up sleeves and get into the details around key initiatives.
• Knowledge of YouTube / Twitch / Twitter and Instagram analytics (i.e. YouTube best practices, ability to analyze, prepare and present data) would be a plus.
• Strong negotiation skills for key creator contracts.
• Strong account management skills, tied to creator led projects.
• Strong financial analysis understanding
• Strong knowledge of Gaming/Esports.

Benefits

• 36 days holiday per year, including a 10 day block ‘reset’, Christmas closure and birthday day off.
• Subsidised bespoke benefits package giving you access to benefits you want (Childcare, enhanced pension, healthcare, gym, Netflix, Deliveroo, you name it, its on there).
• Mental Health partnership with Plumm giving you access to therapy and counselling, and your immediate family access to a huge range of resources.
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity policy as well as enhanced policies for same-sex and non-binary couples.
• Enhanced compassionate leave so you can truly take the time you need.
• Flexible working hours giving you an earlier start for an earlier finish or later start for a later finish.
• Company away days! (Covid royally screwed this but it will return).
• Community days – we give you time off to go support a cause you believe in!
• Plenty of clubs/societies – and if we don’t have something that suits then you can always suggest it.
• Holiday office closure & additional time off for religious holidays.

Kairos Media

CalMatters is looking for a motivated student or early-career photojournalist with a unique eye and strong storytelling skills who is interested in shooting photos for CalMatters. You’ll cover photography assignments, share in editing responsibilities, receive regular critiques from the photo editors and collaborate with reporters and editors across the newsroom.

This is a great opportunity for photojournalists interested in political journalism and statewide issues like healthcare, education, environment and housing in California. An assignment may take you from the state Capitol, to a drought-stricken farm, or to a political protest. The position will require regular travel for assignments. Preference will be given to applicants based in the Sacramento area and Southern California.

Duties

• Take on photo assignments covering statewide issues including portraits, press conferences, demonstrations and environmental scenes
• Contribute to and expand our photo archive
• Pitch and produce one or two visual stories over the course of the internship
• Learn about the photo editing and image sourcing process

Helpful to have

• Previous internship or student journalism experience
• Knowledge of Photoshop, Photo Mechanic or other photo editing software
• Knowledge of Premiere and/or Illustrator
• Videography and video editing skills

How To Apply

This position pays $20 per hour.

We are an expanding and collaborative newsroom, successfully forging a new model for sustainable, intelligent, nonprofit journalism. We’re committed to reflecting the people of the state we serve and especially encourage members of underrepresented communities to apply.

If you’re interested, please send a resume, a cover letter that outlines how this internship aligns with your interests and experience, and links to your portfolio or published examples of your work.

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CalMatters

We’re looking for a video ad producer to join the Second Nature marketing team! You’ll be responsible for creating high performing ads across all of our paid social channels (mainly FB/IG/Tik Tok). Although we’re looking for a natural creative with experience in helping convert people across different stages of the marketing funnel, our ideal candidate can also interpret our performance data in a logical way and adopt a test and learn approach to content creation. We’re looking for someone who is ready to take initiative and hit the ground running.

Main responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with creative marketing manager, performance marketing, and organic social media associate to deliver on-brand videos ads to drive growth and brand awareness.
• Interpret our current creative data and user insights to help inform your creative decisions.
• Bring new and exciting creative ideas to the table and consistently challenge the marketing team to think differently about producing new content.
• Ideating, storyboarding, organising shoots, filming, editing for all video briefs.
• Photo shoots and edits where needed.
• Support with organic/spark ad tik tok video creation leaning on emerging trends, such as kitchen hacks and specific recipes (in accordance with the recipe team).
• Support with the rollout of our current rebrand through our paid social channels.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of creative ad experience
• Experienced videographer with video editing skills + animation (premiere pro + after effects)
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, photoshop, premiere pro and after effects
• Someone who brings energy and enthusiasm with a passion for all things marketing.
• An excellent communicator
• Someone who can manage their own times and meet deadlines
• A genuine social media + advertising enthusiast
• Right to live and work in the UK

Nice to haves

• Youtube channel video production + editing
• Experience working with smaller brands

Benefits

• You can see the impact your work is having on improving thousands of people’s lives and tackling the obesity epidemic on a daily basis
• You’ll get to work with amazing, friendly, smart colleagues all incredibly passionate about solving the type 2 diabetes epidemic
• You’ll have autonomy and responsibility for your work direction
• Currently the entire team is working predominantly from home, but we’ve always offered a flexible working environment where you can work from home when you need to and would continue to do this in future
• We have regular company-sponsored socials (pub drinks, team dinners, board games and movie nights) – currently this is all remote but will hopefully be back to normal soon!
• You can find out more about working with us here.

Our Mission

To make healthy living second nature. We exist to help people take control of their health and save our NHS. How? By combining behavioural science with smart technology and incredible people to tackle the global epidemic of chronic lifestyle diseases once and for all.

We are relentlessly re-imagining, redesigning and re-engineering the way we provide our programme to support our mission.

All team members at Second Nature have a part to play in this commitment.

Our Values

At Second Nature we provide great care to our users. As colleagues, we are enthusiastic about being used and trusted by the NHS to help people make long-term healthy lifestyle changes. Our values are the behaviours and traits that we reward and encourage in the company. They’re the code you live by and contract that you sign when you join. By demonstrating our values, we can make Second Nature an even better place to work and receive care.

As a company, there are five core values that make us unique:

???? Focus on impact

We’re a small team with limited resources & huge aspirations. That only works if we do the important things. That means each day is an act of prioritisation and most importantly, getting stuff done.

???? Do the right thing

We’re trying to solve a global problem with no easy solution. We expect everyone that joins us to be on board with that & understand the context of why we do what we do

???? Keep growing

We believe your only barriers are those that you set yourself. We want people who have a thirst for knowledge and self-development. Those who believe that in the future, they can be better.

???? Let data guide you

We are not our customers. It’s important to stay humble and make decisions based on the data and information available to us, not our own biases and preconceptions.

???? Enjoy the ride

Fast-growing companies have a lot of uncertainty and many course corrections. That can be exciting, empowering, but above all, stressful. Recognising this and being comfortable with it is a key part of being successful with us.

• Our detailed values document can be found here

Second Nature

Primary Function

The Video Post-Production Assistant works within Curriculum & Learning (C&L) supporting the Video Post-Production team at our Educational Content creation client. This position will be a valuable contributor to our overall mission to deliver dynamic, high-quality academic content for University Partners. They will closely collaborate with the entire Video Post-Production team including the Director, Manager, Post-Production Coordinators and Post-Production Producers. A successful Video Post-Production Assistant will be a supportive team member with strong organizational and communication skills, will be able to juggle multiple tasks with a keen eye for detail, and will meet deadlines in order to assist with all of our video post-production processes.

Duties & Responsibilities

• (20%) Execute administrative tasks related to the entire post production process for produced video content including tracking, editing, video quality assurance, final delivery and iterative revisions. Communicate effectively and efficiently between various internal stakeholders and external vendors in the larger course development and video production and post-production processes regarding project requirements, priorities and deadlines.
• (30%) Support members of the VPP team with various project management initiatives to track progress of assigned courses; leveraging Jira project management software including monitoring our service desk and advancing tickets through video post production request process.
• (10%) Research and populate various document and worksheet templates and execute data entry into various software including Aha!, Jira, Google Sheets and Slack all related to the video post-production of courses media content.
• (10%) Gather, track and aggregate pre-determined metrics for data analysis purposes in order to help improve processes, help generate final reports.
• (10%) Assist with updating department SOPs, workflows and other documentation in Confluence and in other software systems.
• (10%) Execute Video Quality Assurance on a limited basis as the need arises to handle internally and not with third party vendor.
• (10%) Execute special projects and other duties as assigned, working independently to meet established deadlines. Support VPP team with general office duties and other traditional production assistant tasks.

Skills & Qualifications

• Familiarity with related post production software including Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop). Video editing skills are a bonus.
• Experience with various technology and software solutions such as Google apps, Microsoft Office, Amazon Web Services, Slack and overall web-savviness.
• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate in a courteous, tactful, and concise manner.
• Supremely organized, uses good judgment, and capable of handling multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• A positive, proactive and collaborative attitude.

Education & Experience

• Degree in Communications, Video/Film/Media Production or related field is required.
• 1+ years of professional video/digital media post-production experience.

Diversity Inclusion & Customer Service Statement

TeamPeople is an organization dedicated to providing superior customer service. Outstanding customer service encompasses everything from performing the technical, creative and operational aspects of our jobs to the best of our ability, to going the extra mile to assist our customers and colleagues in any way.

We respect, value and celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics and perspectives that make each person who they are. We also believe that bringing diverse individuals together allows us to collectively and more effectively address the issues that face our customers. It is our aim, therefore, that our partners, strategies and investments reflect these core values. TeamPeople is dedicated to providing superior customer service and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

TeamPeople

Jellyfish Pictures Summary  

Founded in 2001, Jellyfish Pictures has grown from the original “two-man band” into an award winning internationally recognised operation with over 300 employees working globally, with headquarters based in London.   

Since the launch of Jellyfish Animation in 2014, Jellyfish has produced high-quality CG animation for feature films Spirit Untamed, How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (DreamWorks Animation), top-rated children’s shows, Dennis and Gnasher: Unleashed (CBBC), Floogals (Universal Kids) and Bitz & Bob (Cbeebies) and most recently, has embarked on developing and producing its own original animated children’s content.   

VFX credits include blockbuster movies such as Lucas Films’ Star Wars series Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Last Jedi and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; TV Dramas including Amazon Prime’s Hanna Season 2 HBO’s Watchmen, Netflix’s The Innocents and Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation and TV Documentaries such as Planet Dinosaur and Inside the Human Body.  

Job Summary 

As a Senior Producer you are responsible for ensuring the show deliveries on time, on budget whilst working in close partnership with the Director and Supervisors of the show to deliver to the client expectations.

Reports to 

Head of Production 

Requirements

Key Responsibilities 

• Responsible for maintaining the overall schedule and budget of the show in alignment with the overall production strategy.
• Department scheduling.
• Set up templates, reporting, and define processes and communication required for the team.
• Recruit and train a production team to support required production processes.
• Build strong client relationships and provide options and solutions to any production challenges.
• Foresee issues and mitigate risks, making recommendations to address challenges to ensure the show remains on schedule and budget.
• Ensure the production team are managed artists to hit quotas and deadlines, flagging to Producers if issues may cause delays to overall schedule / strategy.  
• Present accurate reports including (but not limited to): quota achieved per week,  8-week projection, left to do reports.  
• Working with co-ordinators to ensure smooth feedback and approval reporting.  
• Run weekly production meetings. 
• Work as part of the whole Jellyfish Production team to support each other to deliver shows, manage crewing and cast artists appropriately.
• Work with the talent team to ensure crew requirements are understood and guidance is given around guidance.
• Approval of team holidays.  
• Approval of freelancer invoices.  
• Awareness of the teams needs and Company HR policies.  
• Collaborate with Crew Managers/HR regarding crew performance and flag if any issues.  

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties.  The need for flexibility is required and the post holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee’s skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.

Experience/Requirements 

• Proven ability to manage high revenue budgets.  
• Previous series animation experience.
• Knowledge of Shotgun.  
• Awareness of key project assumptions, budget, and schedule across the animation department.  
• Problem solving day to day issues as they arise with the Director and team leads.  
• Highly organised with first-class time/project management skills  
• Confident client and crew management skills  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills   

Personal Qualities:  

Strong communication skills are critical. Must be able to work within a team, taking direction and exercising attention to detail in a fast-paced production environment 

Note: 

Thank you for taking the time to apply to Jellyfish. Due to the high number of applications, we receive, we are unfortunately unable to respond to each candidate unless you have been shortlisted for a specific position. Your portfolio and contact details have been submitted to our database and we’ll be happy to reach out to you when an opening comes up that matches your skill set and experience. 

Our careers section offers a range of other roles, which may be more suitable to your talents and creativity. We encourage you to look at them. Should you find that the roles available are not suitable, we have a general speculative application form, which when completed allows us to retain your details and get in touch as soon as the relevant role becomes available! 

Benefits

At Jellyfish we offer to our PAYE staff holiday pay, sick pay, pension contribution. In addition, you will have access to an advanced benefit package which includes a cycle to work scheme, exclusive perks and much more! 
Lutheran Church of the Resurrection

We are looking for an energetic, organized and self driven individual to join our talented team. Your job would be to coordinate between the clients and the animation team to ensure a smooth, clear process throughout different types of animation projects. Building schedules and revising them is a big part of the role and the ability to see the bigger picture is important. Ideal candidates have two or more years of experience with animation or post cooridantion.

SNAP Animation

This is a Kickstarter Scheme position (candidate must be 16-24 and on, or have applied for, Universal Credit).

An exciting and dynamic role, which focuses on UK influencer outreach across all social media platforms but predominantly Instagram. The role will include driving as well as assisting all proactive and reactive paid and gifting opportunities with influencers, helping to devise influencer activity such as events, news stories and project planning. You will work closely with the rest of the communications team, social media and operations teams in house to deliver communications that impact the business commercially as well as providing support to the Directors.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Support the Directors
• Building and maintaining working relationships with influencers from core influencers to celebrity faces – Looking at all social platforms but predominantly Instagram (Instagram, YouTube, Tik Tok etc)
• Ensure we are thinking about the bigger picture
• Identifying commercial influencers to brand positioning influencers
• Develop and maintain VIP / celebrity outreach
• Inputting and Implementing an outreach strategy set out by the management team. Aimed at increasing social following, talk ability, brand awareness, fashion authority and driving revenue through influencer coverage in line with business objectives
• Continuing to search for new upcoming influencers, even outside of our typical bubble and coming up with ideas on how to attract and engage with them
• Negotiations – able and familiar with negotiations to get as much exposure from our investment
• Organic Gifting – drive and develop a regular gifting scheme for low and mid-tier influencers in order to build and maintain constant reach with support from the influencer assistants
• Event implementation – executing and supporting seasonal events, creative gifting, press days, product launches, and influencer collaborations.
• Create seamless communication with the wider marketing team in order to ensure the comms plan and outreach strategy supports ongoing marketing outreach channels e.g. events
• Report and create insights on a daily/weekly/monthly basis in order to set actionable data.
• Monitoring and reporting on competitor activity and relevant industry trends, events and opportunities to appropriate teams.

Requirements

• Confident, polite, and friendly telephone manner
• Organised
• Great attention to detail
• Proficient with social media
• Fluent, clear and articulate in communication with the ability to convey interest and enthusiasm
• Forward innovative thinker- thinking differently, proposing & embracing courageous new ideas
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office-Word, Excel, Outlook, Google Docs and Powerpoint
• Excellent social communication skills – able to build and maintain influencer relationships

This is a Kickstarter Scheme position (candidate must be 16-24 and on, or have applied for, Universal Credit).

Benefits

At Contraband we believe that support and training is most important in bringing out the best of you, as well as developing your future skills so that you can look at enjoying a long term role with us, and have an opportunity to grow.

With us you can expect to receive:

• One-to-one training with senior staff and directors
• The opportunity to go on paid courses to further your knowledge in the sector you’re employed.
• The first option to apply for any roles in the business, before we market the role publicly.
• The opportunity to work your way up!

We also have other departments and sister companies that you can assist in to further grow your knowledge and experience, as well as give you the opportunity to work within those companies if you wanted to.

In Summary, this role is not the end, it is only the beginning!
Gradfuel

TOPJAW is a London based high production value content creation brand. Primarily distributed through our own YouTube and Instagram channels, we travel the world making food and travel films, documenting the best things to eat, drink and do. Our platform is growing and we are excited for when travel resumes to normality.

We produce self-funded films as well as sponsored content with companies such as BT, Diageo, Specialized, Mazda and Shell. We are looking for an experienced and talented Senior Film Editor to join our team and studio in Vauxhall, London.

Our ideal candidate is a collaborative team player with a strong track record of producing exceptional film content. We’re looking for someone creative, dedicated and highly organised who has ambitions to grow with us and become an integral part of the TOPJAW team.

WHY TOPJAW?

• You’ll work with passionate and driven people who love what they do.
• You’ll take full ownership of projects and have significant creative influence.
• You’ll work with some of the world’s largest and most exciting brands as well as support small independent businesses.
• We’re all about working hard and having fun. We’re an energetic team that laughs a lot.

KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Taking ownership of edits and ensuring they’re completed on time and within specified deadlines.
• Working closely to a brief when working with brands and making sure all key messaging is hit.
• Enhancing the TOPJAW brand through contribution of content for our social channels.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Someone experienced in using Premiere Pro and the entire Adobe Creative Suite.
• An individual with experience across all areas of editing – including assembly, sound design, colour grading and 2D animation.
• An individual with initiative and imagination who is able to work under pressure.
• Someone with a keen interest in food and travel content and excited to work with us to develop and constantly improve TOPJAW.
• A responsible and diligent team player who is able to plan, prioritise and work independently.
• Someone with a good grasp of social trends and social media, sharing our love for high quality content creation and desire to create the best content on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
• An individual who is detail orientated and a strong storyteller.

Salary £55-60k pa, experience dependent.

To apply, please send your CV, covering letter (<500 words) and answers to the below to our email address.

– Your favourite YouTube channel and why?

– An example of some of your best sound design work

– Your favourite Premiere Pro shortcut

– A film or piece of content which has inspired you, (recent or old)?

Employment Type: Full-time

TOPJAW LTD

ST5: Independent Street Influencer (ISI) – 5-hour ENERGY®

As an Independent Street Influencer (ISI), your very own company will have the ability to grow the 5-hour ENERGY® brand in an assigned territory of stores. This opportunity includes regular interaction with store personnel and management to drive the in-store presence and sales of the brand.

What’s in it for you?

• You will own your business as an LLC and operate independently while we provide training and support to help your business be successful – this means you have total control of your work schedule and execution strategy
• A generous monthly flat retainer, plus $8,400 annually ($700 per month) to use for administrative expenses and a significant quarterly incentive payment opportunity

What you’ll do – Influence store customers to purchase 5-hour ENERGY® products by:

• Building and strengthening relationships with store owners within your specific territory through regular site visits
• Working with store owners to increase store traffic through social media
• Ensuring5-hour ENERGY® products are properly merchandised
• Advising retailers on placement of5-hour ENERGY® products in the cooler and on the shelves
• Guiding retailers on optimizing5-hour ENERGY® products in the store and place posters and promotional materials
• Providing store owners and managers with additional merchandising materials
• Maintaining a professional appearance and wearing proper attire

Qualifications:

• Prior experience in retail or sales position preferred
• Social media experience (we can help with expanding your reach)
• Must have reliable transportation and be able to transport client POP – fixtures/signage/etc.
• Must be 21 years of age or older
• Must possess a valid driver’s license
• Must own and operate a licensed LLC (assistance with formation will be provided)

Territories available (will be 20-30 mile radius of listed area):

• San Mateo, CA
• San Jose, CA
• Alameda, CA

This responsibility description is meant to describe the general nature and work your company is expected to perform; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and goals that need to be accomplished.

5-hour ENERGY®

The FLEX Salesperson Video Associate Producer is responsible for supporting salesperson video shoots for Nordstrom.com. The goal is to provide a great online customer experience while connecting customers with our people, stores, and Nordstrom’s deep fashion expertise. The role will require strong communication and organization skills, being able to flex between prep/organization and on-set shoots. Flexibility in hours during peak periods required.

A day in the life…

• Partner with regional Producer, store teams, and Salespeople to coordinate video shoots in multiple locations within a region
• Work with Project Coordinators on sample procurement, vendor product knowledge, and styling
• Pre-shoot product preparation (sorting, un-tagging, steaming, etc.)
• On-set management of shoot and crew to ensure high quality content, accurate data entry, tracking of process, and communication
• Provide constructive feedback to assist in enhancing department vision and strategies to support program goals
• Assist regional Producer in maintaining Salesperson talent pool and partner with stores to promote program, recruit new talent
• Communicate on-set progress, future needs, and process efficiencies

You own this if you have…

• Self-motivated, highly organized, goal-oriented team player with commitment to outstanding customer service
• 1-3 years’ experience of retail, eCommerce or commercial photography and/or video production experience
• Comfortable operating in a constantly evolving environment characterized by fast and changing deadlines
• Experience in executing photo and video shoots from start to finish
• Ability to build strong relationships with peers and production team
• Proficiency in MS Office suite and SharePoint
• Clear written and verbal communication and strong interpersonal skills
• Styling experience is preferred

*** This is a flexible schedule and on-call, as needed position and not full-time. Hours and scheduling will depend on volume of work ***

A few more important points…

The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities and qualifications for this job.

Nordstrom will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation should contact the nearest Nordstrom location, which can be identified at www.nordstrom.com.

© 2022 Nordstrom, Inc

Current Nordstrom employees: To apply, log into Workday, click the Careers button and then click Find Jobs.

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