Production Assistant - Studio

Informa Festivals marks an exciting new chapter in B2B events, bringing some of the world's most influential creative, technology and business festivals together. We're combining prestigious brands like Cannes Lions, Black Hat, Money20/20 and London Tech Week with cutting-edge marketing intelligence platforms and advisory services to deliver unmissable experiences and insights. Our festival-led approach reimagines traditional B2B events, creating powerful, immersive experiences that drive innovation and industry advancement.

This role is based in London, UK Office. We're looking for a Production Assistant to join our team as part of our Content function.

Your Role: You will support the studio team with day to day operations, maintaining, organising, handling and observing safety procedures for the equipment and studio space. You will also help ensure compliance with studio standards and procedures. You will help the Video team in London to produce various types of video assets, with special emphasis on live video content produced from our studio in our office in central London.

Key Responsibilities:

• Booking equipment for video productions
• Liaising with the Producer / Director to discuss requirements and plans for each project
• Organising and ingesting footage for post-production as well as archiving content
• Organising and executing kit maintenance, filming studio duties and other organisational tasks, liaising with external suppliers when needed
• Supports on set including camera operating, lighting, audio and streaming
• Receive briefs for, and produce, a simple packaged edit for production
• Facilitate & manage low risk, low maintenance livestreams with support from a more senior team member
• Support in the shipping and delivery of kit to our events

Qualifications:

• This role would be suitable for someone looking for their second role in video production
• Previous experience organising video productions in either the corporate or film industry is useful
• Knowledge of broadcasting and filming kit including cameras, tele-prompters, audio, capturing and streaming equipment with the purpose of supporting the Live and Video Technology team in their day-to-day usage
• Comfortable managing conflicting priorities and deadlines, ensuring a positive outcome with confident and concise communication
• This role requires someone who is personable as you will be very people orientated
• You are comfortable commuting regularly to meet production requirements

Additional Information:

We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Our benefits include:

• Time out: Take up to four days per year to volunteer, plus a day off for your birthday!
• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely.
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares.
• Company funded private medical insurance.
• The opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning.
• When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves.
• Great community: a welcoming culture, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active colleague run diversity and inclusion networks.
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world.

At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law.