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Current vacancies:
Producer
Main Purpose of Job
Responsible for the development and production of multiple DESQ projects.
Responsible for estimating and monitoring resources (internal and external).
Assist in the development of proposals, providing estimates, budgets, and schedules and project scopes/structures, working with the Creative Director/Business Development team.
Being the primary interface with the client. Ensuring client satisfaction and that they are communicated to effectively.
Assist in the creative design of products, assessing target audience, structure of content and technical/functional design of products. Support the Creative Director or Learning Designer in the development of design and functional specification documents.
Manage the development of design and functional specification documents, working with the Creative Director and other members of the production team.
Scope of Job
- Responsible to: Senior Producer
- Responsible for: Initially N/A. Could involve line management of producers and production assistants
- Salary band: £24,000 - £32,000 TBA
Main Duties
- Deliver projects within scope, budget and schedule.
- Lead management of projects, with support of Producer team (and Operations Director/Creative Director).
- Act as the primary interface to clients, ensuring client satisfaction, that existing clients are communicated with effectively and that any further development opportunities are highlighted.
- Plan project work, implement priorities, processes and schedule activities.
- Co-ordinate and attend meetings (external and internal) and ensuring minutes/action points are documented and acted on.
- Monitor financial aspects of a project i.e. budgets, additional costs. Raise issues to Operations Director. Ensure maintenance of the project’s budget monitor.
- Ensure that overall schedules are maintained and all deadlines are met. Raise issues to Operations Director.
- Set up and overview project systems – e.g. project kick off procedure, regular internal project meetings, end of stage reviews, post project evaluation etc.
- Monitor the work and performance of suppliers / production team, including quality and performance issues, problem solving and negotiating any changes.
- Identify and mitigate risks or issues associated with clients, suppliers, project milestones, resources etc. and ensure Operations Director is made aware.
- Ensure appropriate delivery of project documentation (e.g. prince management system, weekly reports, quality reports etc.) and agree with clients where appropriate.
- Liaise with Operations Director on internal and external production schedules and resources.
- Propose and manage contractual negotiations with client and subcontractors, with support from the Operations Director.
- Production of post project de-brief and analysis report. Evaluate project performance against company objectives.
Learning Design
- Responsible for implementing the creative and learning design of products through the life of project.
- In conjunction with the Creative Director and Learning Designer, responsible for:
- Assessing the target audience.
- Structuring content and implementing and advising on interactive learning solutions.
- Responsible for the development of the functional design of products.
Content Management & QA:
- Work closely with content writers, technical developers and subject matter experts, who may be partner organisations, or 3rd party suppliers or internal team members.
- Draw up and implement an appropriate test plan and manage the trialling and testing products throughout their development.
- Review / edit script content in line with project brief – raise any issues with Creative Director and content suppliers and partners.
- Assist in the suggestion and implementation of improvements to production processes.
Business Development:
- Assess new tenders in conjunction with Business Development team, assist in the development of proposals, reports, risk analysis, schedules and estimates to client.
- Undertake research and development in specific areas as required e.g. accessibility.
- Support the Directors in the development of business plans.
- Assist in the identification of new clients whilst ensuring maximum development of existing clients.
- To be responsible for research and development in specific areas as required.
Staff Management
- To assist in the recruitment of new staff (where appropriate).
- Ensure staff follow procedures.
- Monitor quality and productivity.
- Problem solve & analysis of risk.
- Ensure delegation.
Line Management
- Induction of new employees.
- Conduct Appraisals, in conjunction with Supervisor.
- Establish employee training needs.
- Train and mentoring individual staff.
- Hold regular one to one meetings.
Additional responsibilities as and when required.
Performance Criteria
- Keeping projects within deadlines, quality targets and budgets.
- Quality of deliverables through testing, evaluation and client satisfaction.
- Effective staff development and communication with Operations Director on staffing issues.
- Contributing toward the company’s profitability.
- Effective delegation and monitoring.
- Supplier satisfaction levels.
- Ownership and flexibility to project demands.
- Ability to work effectively within a team.
- Capability of dealing calmly in difficult situations.
Essential attributes and skills :
- Project management experience.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Negotiating and influencing skills.
- An understanding of e-learning and learning games.
- Financial management skills and experience.
- Good client management skills.
- Knowledge of production processes for interactive media and digital games.
- Experience of line management.
- Experience of writing/contributing to tenders/pitches.
- Creative, with the ability to think above and beyond the project brief.
- A team worker with a genuine concern for people.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Preferable attributes and skills:
- Interest in digital games.
- Experience of learning design.
- Leadership skills.
- Content or editorial background.
- Prince II qualification.
Send covering letters & CVs to jobs@desq.co.uk
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Flash freelancers wanted
Long and Short term contracts.
Flash developers are wanted to ease workload on an internal team. You will work on one or more of a range of game and computer based learning projects for high profile education and media clients. We are looking for in-house workers for fixed term contracts and remote workers for smaller discrete projects.
The skills we are looking for currently:
Send covering letters & CVs to jobs@desq.co.uk
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Production Freelancers
We're always updating our network of freelance production staff to meet resourcing requirements during busy periods and for contracts on specific projects.
Of particular interest would be freelancers with an interest in education and gaming, offering skills in any of the following areas:
Graphic designers - including experience of:
Interface, web and game design for usability and accessibility.
An understanding of web technologies and their application including HTML, Flash, CSS etc.
Illustrators
Character and environment design, 2D animation. We work on a wide range of projects so whatever your style we’ll be interested.
3D Modelers/animators- including experience of:
Character modeling and animations, storyboarding and scene design.
3D production for the web, including associated tools such as 3DS Max/Plasma, Maya, Nendo, Flash and Director.
Flash & ActionScript developers - including experience of:
Data-driven, dynamic content, utilising external text files, XML files and JavaScript data sources.
Desktop application development combining flash with other tools such as SWF studio Flash Jester, Visual Basic or Director.
Web developers - including experience of:
HTML, DHTML and CSS, and associated tools including Dreamweaver.
Web scripting languages such as JavaScript.
Send covering letters & CVs to
jobs@desq.co.uk.
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It is the DESQ’s policy as an employer to treat all people equally irrespective of race, ethnic origin, sex, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, creed, disability, age or political belief.
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