Position 

Manager 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 a talented Manager of Community, Learning & Design to join our team as the lead program manager and facilitator on an array of keystone programs and initiatives. As a program manager, you will report directly to the Director of Community, Learning & Design. You will help cultivate relationships with community leaders, content creators, and influencers in the media landscape and assist in building strategic partnerships and coordinate efforts to work through appropriate communities and channels in ways that support our strategic vision. You will be instrumental in managing and evaluating program 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 an independent and unconventional thinker with a passion for dissecting the cross sections of people, community, culture, and content. You’re a curious intellectual and a disruptive designer 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 project manager with experience managing multi-pronged programs with internal and external stakeholders. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, are self sufficient and capable of seeing tasks and projects through to a successful execution. 

 

Skills & Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of film/TV and the media/content landscape is preferred, but not required
• Background in community work, government, education, OTT media, or civic organizations is a plus
• Well-organized and detail-oriented
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Works well independently and in a team setting 
• Efficient with database management and program reporting 

 

General Responsibilities

• Project manage all Community, Learning & Design programs, ensuring to keep accurate records and reporting tools on deck 
• Assisting with research & planning; sourcing and vetting opportunities or leads as needed for programs 
• General project support, which might include event planning, coordination of logistics, setting meetings and schedules, initiating timelines, etc. 
• Liaising with external partners as needed; participating and leading meetings to derive KPIs
• Communications support, including email communications with external partners and liaising with PR or marketing support

 

Hiring Practices

Cinereach is an equal opportunity employer.

 

To Apply

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