Director, Production

Overview

Description Comic Relief believes comedy can move culture and change the world. We use its power to shift perspectives and bring people together to help end childhood poverty. To date, we have helped over 50 million children and families, and counting. Join us.

LOCATION Candidates should be based in the NY metro area. We are a hybrid organization and work three days per week in our downtown New York City office.

Comic Relief is seeking a Director of Production to lead the engine that drives our creative, marketing, and campaign work. This is a senior, production-minded role responsible for ensuring that ambitious ideas are delivered with excellence—on time, on budget, and at the highest quality—across national campaigns, live comedy events, video, advertising, social media, and community engagement initiatives.

Reporting to the Chief Creative Officer, the Director of Production will oversee how work gets made: creating plans, building systems, managing partners, agencies, and freelance creative and production personnel; leading production across disciplines that blend internal and external resources; and driving execution at every level of the organization.

This role requires a seasoned operator who can zoom out to plan large-scale projects and design workflows and zoom in to manage the details and solve problems in real time.

Comic Relief’s work sits at the intersection of comedy, culture, and impact. To deliver at the scale and ambition our mission demands, we need operational excellence behind every idea.

The Director of Production ensures that creative vision becomes reality—consistently, effectively, and at the highest standard.

• Own the operational delivery of Comic Relief’s creative and marketing work across campaigns, content, events, and advertising
• Establish and maintain production workflows, processes, and standards that enable teams to do their best work efficiently and consistently
• Design and run meeting structures, project intake, prioritization, and communication rhythms for a growing, cross-functional department
• Lead large-scale, interdisciplinary projects that require participation across multiple departments
• Establish interdepartmental workflows with an eye toward efficiency, speed, clear communication, and accountability

• Lead planning and production for national campaigns, including awareness, integrated marketing, and fundraising initiatives
• Oversee event production for benefit comedy shows and live activations, including project planning from creative development through delivery, production resourcing, contracting, and daily operations
• Manage video and content production from pre-production through final delivery across formats (short-form, long-form, digital, social, broadcast) including resourcing, contracting, legal/insurance, physical production, post, etc.
• Oversee advertising production across multiple agency partners, including creative development and asset production for paid, owned, and pro bono media
• Ensure creative assets are produced, trafficking-ready, QA’d, and delivered on time to support marketing, media, and campaign needs ensuring the right formats, timelines, and standards for distribution

• Oversee the production of internal and partner-facing materials, including pitch decks, partnership one-sheets, fundraising collateral, institutional proposals, and presentation assets
• Manage deliverables for cross-departmental stakeholders, including Fundraising (corporate, institutional, and individual donors) and Grantmaking & Impact, ensuring materials are accurate, compelling, and aligned with brand and mission
• Coordinate with creative leads to ensure that messaging and visual storytelling reflect Comic Relief’s brand, mission, and impact strategy
• Maintain and update brand assets, templates, and presentation tools to support internal teams and external engagements
• Ensure internal deliverables are formatted, QA’d, and presentation-ready, and that they meet quality and timeline expectations across multiple departments and audiences

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