What You'll Do
As a Rights Coordinator, you’ll play a key role in supporting the Rights Manager and Archive Producers with the clearance and use of archive footage, stills, and audio. Working as part of the Research & Rights Management team, you’ll help manage the end-to-end process - from sourcing and clearing rights to maintaining accurate documentation and supporting financial administration.
You’ll liaise with internal teams and external rights holders, ensure all usage is fully cleared and compliant, and keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes to support content delivery for a key client account.
This is a great opportunity to be at the heart of content production, ensuring everything from archive footage to audio is cleared, organised, and ready for use.
Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities
- Acting as the point of contact for both internal and external footage suppliers.
- Offer consultation to client’s production partners on research and archive clearance best practice.
- Proactive management of archive footage clearances, contracts and licences across multiple productions including delegation of work to the rights assistant.
- Proactively maintaining key administrative documents relating to footage archive, rights clearance including tracking of all rights in place and their expiration dates.
- Manage all budgets, cost reports, payments and invoicing associated to all footage, archive, stills and audio usage and clearance fees.
- Assisting the Production Accountant with monthly financial reports.
- Assist Rights Manager and Archive Producers in the development of training materials and facilitate sharing of knowledge of rights clearance processes.
- You may also be required to carry out any other duties, which are within the scope and purpose of the job.
Skills And Abilities
- Excellent client liaison/management skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Keenness to learn and take on more responsibility
- A team player and able to work well under pressure
Knowledge And Experience
- Experience with licensing and/or rights
- Experience of liaising with clients and agencies or similar customer facing experience
- Experience maintaining and reporting on budgets
- Experience with PowerPoint, Excel and Word software packages
Working Conditions
- The work location is Chiswick Park, London.
- This is a fixed term contact until May 2027
- Working hours are 9-5 pm with occasional work outside of working hours where necessary for the business
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