Coordinator, Audible Originals - 18-Month Contract

- Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience as a team assistant, coordinator, operations or similar support roles within media, entertainment, creative, or fast-paced corporate environments
- Experience with productivity and collaboration tools, including calendars, spreadsheets, presentations, trackers, email tools, and messaging platforms - Experience in the entertainment industry
- Strong writing and slide-preparation skills, with attention to detail when it comes to formatting and presentation
- Familiarity with content workflows and team operations in a creative organisation
- Experience interfacing with external partners, talent, or guests in a professional setting
- Ability to collaborate effectively within a diverse team

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ABOUT THIS ROLE
Audible is seeking a Commissioning Coordinator to support the Audible Originals non-fiction team in the UK. The role will primarily support the Senior Director of Audible Originals for Non-Fiction, together with the wider non-fiction commissioning team, with a particular focus on Always on and RSS expansion. They will be managing submissions, scheduling meetings, and helping with the development process for new podcasts and audiobooks. The successful candidate will be highly organised, proactive, and collaborative, with the ability to bring people together and keep work moving across multiple strands at once. They should be a keen consumer of great comedy, journalistic and general entertainment, whether that be audio, film, tv, books; someone with spark and a passion for great storytelling.

ABOUT YOU
You'll bring a blend of team support, coordination, communications in a media, entertainment, or creative environment. Strong writing skills are valuable, particularly for internal communications, briefing notes, updates, and communication with internal and external partners.

You're someone people trust: a calm, capable operator who can handle detail, build relationships quickly. Experience supporting senior stakeholders is useful, in a publishing and/or entertainment company organization. You're someone who enjoys making things happen behind the scenes and bringing order, energy, and connection to a busy team. You have initiative, sound judgement, strong follow-through, a passion for getting stuff done and anticipating team needs.

As a Commissioning Coordinator, you will...
- Coordinate outreach, meetings and ongoing communication with major talent and production partners as we expand the Audible Original slate over the next 18 months
- Support content leadership and team operations through scheduling, logistics, documentation, meeting coordination, travel planning, expenses, and project tracking
- Work as a link between production and commissioning for Audible Originals books and podcasts, managing the workflow, invoicing and day to day management where needed
- Manage the submissions process for potential future Audible Originals commissions
- Manage submissions process for industry award nominations
- Support organization and smooth running of industry events and presence at conferences
- Create presentations for key meetings with both internal and external partners, e.g. slate presentations, pitches to talent
- Liaise with Marketing, US counterparts, and other partner teams around key initiatives
- Light interaction with talent and partners where needed around events, recordings, and external engagements, in close coordination with relevant leads

ABOUT AUDIBLE
Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners' imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.