Production Assistant

Job Description

10 Paramount Australia & New Zealand is a division of Paramount International Networks, which in turn is a division of Paramount Global. 

Paramount is a global media & entertainment organisation with some of the best known and loved brands in the world. Employing over 1,700 people locally, and a further 25,000+ globally, we deliver premium content through multiple platforms for the young (and the young at heart of course!).

We pride ourselves on creating content that gets people talking. What's more, you'll find all these great shows (and more) on our free-to-air channels (10, 10 Peach, 10 Shake, 10 Bold), subscription channels (MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Comedy Central), our digital platform 10 Play and our new subscription video on demand service Paramount+. 

This is a permanent full-time role based in Sydney.

As the Production Assistant you will be responsible for keeping the busy production department running smoothly. This fast paced and pivotal role within the team requires a highly intuitive, organised and flexible person who is motivated and capable of thinking on their feet whilst ensuring things run smoothly within the department.

More specifically, you'll be doing things like this:
• Coordinating the delivery of programs: liaising with Production Company, managing and distributing scripts schedules and relevant materials in pre production, ingesting footage, organising tech checks and updating the TX Schedules.
• Personal Assistant to the EPs: answering telephones and emails and extensive diary management including but not limited to; scheduling meetings, and set visits, organising screenings, in house guest collection and management, booking travel, collating and balancing expenses, monitoring delivery schedules across multiple productions.
• Supporting Eps through conducting research and gathering relevant materials on multiple projects and proposals upon request with absolute professionalism and confidence
• General Production Assistant tasks: liaising with the Production Supervisor and production companies prior to any shooting blocks and studio records to make sure all requests are managed in a timely manner, amend talent transfers as required, complete appropriate research regarding shows as requested, and reporting all findings confidentiality and relaying the information in the correct form.
• General team support: answer phone calls, collect mail & book couriers, managing production information & communication, creating network 10 and Paramount + contact lists for productions, managing contact lists & spreadsheets, arranging gifts, putting through stationary order and raising Purchase Orders, updating the executive production travel forecast, and general administration duties such as filing, preparing presentations and other responsibilities as required.

What are we looking for? What's important?
• You will have a large amount of personal contact with senior Network Executives and the wider television industry. As a result, this role requires a great deal of confidentiality and discretion.
• Ability to be a fast learner, to use your fine-tuned initiative, plan your work effectively and to be able to multi-task and take direction.
• You will need to have an exceptionally high level of organisation and be an effective problem solver
• A real passion for television and TV production
• Highly personable and have excellent communication and computer skills.
• Outstanding attention to detail and a proficient knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint are essential.

Why Paramount?

We could just list the numerous benefits our employees avail of every day. However, for now we'll just leave you with how our employees feel about us:
• 92% of our employees stated they would highly recommend Paramount to a friend (Glassdoor)
• We hold a 4.1 STAR RATING, by far the highest rating in the media sector (Seek Company Profiles)

Paramount embraces differences and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds regardless of factors such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property or birth. These grounds also include age, nationality, marital status, disability, place of residence and sexual orientation.

We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia's First Peoples, and the Traditional Custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging, and we are proud to live in a country which is home to the world's oldest living cultures.

At Paramount, there is no such thing as the 'perfect candidate'

Seeing responsibilities and competencies laid out on paper can be confronting. At this stage of the recruitment process, sometimes imposter syndrome can creep in and mess with our confidence.

Please know that we list these items to give you an opportunity to show us your potential and how you can grow and transform with us. Your ability to demonstrate that you have the real potential to develop the required capabilities, knowledge, and experience to perform in this role is what we would like to hear from you. Where possible, you should support your claims with specific examples of what you have done, and how you did it.

We embrace difference and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds regardless of factors such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property or birth. These grounds also include age, nationality, marital status, disability, place of residence and sexual orientation.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gknjbq-3-140-186-241-42 in your application.