Position 

Director of Community, Learning & Design (Full Time)

 

About Cinereach 

Over the last 15 years, Cinereach has established itself as a leader in the film world with beautiful, captivating, and award-winning films. As one of the few artist-friendly production houses in the media landscape, we understand the value of bold vision, innovation in storytelling, and calculated, values-aligned risks necessary to challenge the status quo and pioneer new media models. 

Today, Cinereach is growing into a strategy-informed media incubator that will strategically address some of the world’s most important and challenging problems. By bridging our thought leadership and industry influence with effective, entertaining storytelling and an exceptional community of creative collaborators, we will fundamentally reposition media's role in creating cultural impact, inspiring systems transformation, and influencing and impacting sustainable change.  

As we fine-tune and expand our focus as a content company that effectively serves cultural imperatives, we continue to use innovative programmatic tools to produce and leverage content that positions our society to achieve a more just and equitable future. 

As a media incubator, our strategy encompasses the intersectional placement of a few key elements, including:

• A multidisciplinary external advisory collaborative that is deeply rooted in systems-thinking expertise. The collaborative helps in mapping the cultural and narrative challenges in Cinereach’s key focus issue areas (sustainability, justice, and  pluralism) and through research, testing, and learning functions, helps to identify hypotheses for high-impact storytelling. 
• Cinereach Community, Learning & Design: The creative experimentation arm of Cinereach, this program assembles and facilitates bespoke programs to develop original creative concepts and prototypes specific to strategic hypotheses coming out of the strategy group. It collaborates with the measurement and learning staff to test and iterate these concepts.
• Cinereach Studio: As the production arm of Cinereach, this program will develop,  produce, and acquire content across the media landscape with a focus on delivering content aligned with the strategies tested in the Community, Learning & Design program. 

 

The Opportunity

Cinereach is seeking an experienced Director to join our Community, Learning & Design team. Reporting to the Chief Creative Officer, you will execute strategic plans that support our mission. You will build meaningful bridges and relationships with partner organizations, content arbiters and influencers in service to our strategic pillars. You will oversee the team’s daily activities, ensuring programmatic initiatives are progressing successfully and run interference to overcome roadblocks. The biggest opportunity you’ll have as Director is to thought-partner with the CCO to define unconventional programs and opportunities that move the needle on positive social change, and define KPIs to measure the program’s effectiveness. 

This is a fully remote opportunity with occasional in-person events. At this time, we can only consider applicants with authorization to work in the United States on a permanent, full-time basis. Unfortunately, we cannot provide visa sponsorship.

 

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate for this position is a strategic thinker with a passion for dissecting the cross sections of people, community, culture, and content. You’re a curious intellectual and a disruptive thinker at heart. You regularly consume information that shapes your thoughts on the media, film/TV/content, emergent trends, politics, climate, social and racial justice and interconnected systems. You’re an effective leader with a proven track record of programmatic success. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and are laser-focused on delivering impactful results. 

 

Skills & Qualifications

• Ability to create, manage, and enhance partnerships with mutually beneficial outcomes for both parties
• Experience in facilitating and moderating group conversations that challenge the status quo
• Experience synthesizing and interpreting diverse perspectives into actionable and meaningful programmatic outcomes 
• Experience working in areas of culture, story, and/or media
• Excellent interpersonal skills (you can clearly articulate a vision/strategy and motivate people)
• Detail-oriented and organized 
• Familiarity with various media platforms is a plus!
• Prior experience working with creatives (big thinkers, artists) is a plus!

 

General Responsibilities

• Source and analyze research on key narrative goals for the organization
• Design/co-design creative storytelling workshops for a curated group of participants 
• Source and identify key partners and collaborators for facilitated workshops surrounding above mentioned narrative goals
• Serve as one of the primary facilitators/leaders of the workshop
• Manage and guide partners/collaborators/participants to keep workshops aligned to organizational goals
• Shepherd the workshop from ideation through execution
• Distill, organize, and present key learnings from workshops to aid in informing organizational decisions

 

Hiring Practices

Cinereach is an equal opportunity employer.

 

To Apply

Please submit your resume to jobs@cinereach.org with subject line: "Director of Community, Learning & Design." Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.