Development Coordinator

Job Description

:What will you work on?
The Development Coordinator supports the administration and organization of the Creative Development team. This is an 16-month maternity leave position in Toronto, Ontario and reports directly to SME’sDirector of Development.How will you create impact?

• Liaising internally with SMEs, executives, creative development, visual development, and toy-for-entertainment teams, and externally with agents, showrunners, writers, and clients to ensure the day-to-day organization and tracking of key development deliverables.

• Responsibilities include initiating and booking meetings with key creatives, taking detailed meeting notes, managing and collecting start-up paperwork, and distributing NDAs and other support materials as needed.

• Distributing scripts and other creative support documents as required.

• Under supervision, breaking down scripts; proofreading; and inputting, evaluating, and tracking scripts and properties in development.

• Tracking and maintaining script schedules for all series and projects in development.

• Managing asset organization for development projects, including filing materials within internal systems and recording visual assets in an ongoing art history / visual reference deck.

• Filing, logging, and tracking submissions and acquisitions for review; creating agendas for submission review discussions with the Director and Development Executive; and flagging projects requiring follow-up or response.

• Updating departmental presentations on a monthly basis to reflect the latest visual development assets and ensure written creative updates accurately represent current project status.

• Handling accounts and expenses related to development projects, including resolving issues with oversight from the Line Producer.

• Providing general support to the Development team, including but not limited to script/creative, visual development, departmental presentations, and toy-for-entertainment teams.

What are your skills and experience?

• Experience in animated children’s television series productions, in a production assistant or production coordinator role.

• A high level of proficiency in Word, MS Outlook, Final Draft, Power Point and Excel.

• Must have initiative, flexibility, adaptability, common sense, resourcefulness and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and alone; to identify issues, troubleshoot, ask questions, and propose solutions.

• Ability to prioritize and handle last minute changes in a positive and professional manner.

• Enthusiastic and passionate about storytelling and a love for children’s animation.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.