Production Manager
Description
Climate Production Manager - TV & Popular Culture
This role sits at the intersection of TV production, creative development and climate storytelling- helping the TV industry tell powerful, accurate stories about our changing world that truly connect with audiences and inspire action.
As our Production Manager, you will lead the "how": managing the end-to-end delivery of our workshops, clinics, script consultations, and creative brainstorms with broadcasters, production companies and creatives. You will translate our strategic priorities into a clear portfolio of projects, ensuring the work is expertly scoped, resourced, and delivered to the highest industry standard.
You will bring a production management approach to a charity environment, ensuring delivery is structured, efficient and responsive to industry needs. You will coordinate and manage the work of consultants and collaborators, ensuring quality, consistency and alignment with programme goals.
You will act as both:
● A trusted operational partner to industry stakeholders and creatives, and
● An internal production lead, responsible for delivery across multiple strands of work
This role requires strong production experience, excellent stakeholder management, and the ability to balance creative collaboration with structured delivery. It is best suited to someone currently working as a Production Manager, or with recent, hands-on experience in production management within the TV industry.
Skills and requirements
Essential:
We don’t expect you to meet every point, and we welcome applicants whose skills come from a mix of areas. If you’re excited about this role and meet most of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you. We don’t expect you to be an expert on climate change, but you must be motivated to translate climate and sustainability into TV shows that audiences genuinely want to watch.
● Significant experience working as a Production Manager (or equivalent) within the TV industry
● Strong track record of managing multiple productions, projects or workstreams simultaneously
● Experience managing:
• schedules and timelines
• budgets and resources
• stakeholders across different levels
● Comfortable working in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
● Strong organisational and problem-solving skills
● Excellent communication skills, particularly when working with external partners and creative teams
● Ability to bring structure, clarity and delivery focus to complex projects
Desirable
● Experience working across both production and development
● Experience managing freelancers, consultants or collaborators
● Interest in storytelling, narrative or social impact work
Application deadline: 4th May 11:59pm
Contract: Fixed-term until March 2027 with possibility of extension
Salary: £45,968
Location: London, coming into the office (Bethnal Green, London) at least two days a week + additional days in the office as needed for attending events, trainings, internal or external meetings. Our team embraces hybrid working
Hours: Full-time* (35 hrs/week)
*Heard is trialling the Four-Day Week as part of our commitment to well-being, sustainability and effectiveness. This means our full-time equivalent has reduced from 35 to 32 hours. Our trustees will review whether to permanently adopt compressed hours later in 2026, at which point we will work carefully with all our team to ensure all work patterns are sustainable for them, regardless of the decision.
We especially welcome applicants from groups underrepresented in the climate or TV sectors, including Black and Global Majority people, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, and those from working class backgrounds.
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Location
London
Posted on
22nd Apr 2026
Apply by
4th May 2026