Producer
A full time position at Blanchard House, London, UK
Salary: £60,000 (yearly rate)
Key Information
- Location: London (flexible remote working options available)
- Contract: Full-time, 12 month initial contract, possibility of extension
- Role type: Hybrid – partly remote, partly from our London office
- Salary: £55-65k per annum, depending on experience
- Deadline: 23 February 2025
- Start: April 2025
About Blanchard House
We created Blanchard House with a singular vision: to tell the most captivating, acoustically immersive non-fiction stories anyone would ever hear. Our multi-award-winning team has created original narrative podcasts for global media networks including Apple, Wondery, Audible, Exactly Right and Corus. In everything we produce, Blanchard House represents the very best storytelling, the most trusted journalism and the highest production values which are truly cinematic in scale – with bold, original soundtracks and rich, arresting sound design.
Blanchard House tells true stories with the power to endure. Good stories never die.
Your Role
We are looking for a Producer to join our award-winning team and lead the production of an exciting new narrative podcast series. We want to hear from seasoned producers with extensive experience of long-form audio and narrative story-telling who have availability to start ideally during April.
You will be part of a truly independent company working with global partners on critically acclaimed narrative non-fiction audio. You'll be joining a small, highly skilled team where differences are valued and we set the highest standards for ourselves – from the fundamentals of journalism to the creativity of our story telling. You will drive every aspect of this new production, shaping the series and working closely with internal executives and commissioning networks.
Responsibilities
Development
- Confidently take ownership of a commissioned project and develop it fully through deep research.
- Conduct rigorous research and reporting, with the highest journalistic integrity and ethics. Will require confident and responsible solo travel.
- Secure remaining access, establishing, building and managing relationships with contributors on complex and sensitive issues.
- Structure and develop series and episode arcs, iterating through feedback from executive producers to find the most compelling way of telling the story.
- Identify potential legal concerns at an early stage and work with lawyers and executive producers to resolve.
Recording
- Conduct in-depth, sensitive interviews that respect the contributor and enable faithful, vivid storytelling.
- Record interviews and location sound in high quality, with or without an accompanying engineer.
- Produce host narration and enable the very best host performance.
- Log and organize large volumes of audio material for easy reference.
Edit
Confidently select strongest material to build compelling, multi-part audio series. Write host scripts, with sensitivity to both subject material and host voice. Confidently edit multitrack audio, ideally in Reaper – or willingness to learn Reaper (we will provide training in Reaper to producers used to other DAWs eg. Audition, ProTools or Sadie) Work with managing producer to optimise production timelines and workflows, ensuring deadlines and budgets are met. Welcome and constructively respond to feedback from internal and external commissioning executives, working collegiately to refine episodes for publication.
Other
- Ensure all potential legal concerns are resolved, including clearing all third-party material and maintaining all contributor release and production compliance paperwork, in collaboration with lawyers and executives.
- Communicate and collaborate collegiately with composers and sound designers who will score and mix the series.
- Draft promotional materials, including trailers and material for press releases. Contribute to launch strategies and audience engagement efforts.
The right candidate will:
- Have a minimum of 5 years in audio production, with a proven track record of long-form and complex narrative work.
- Be an exceptional journalist with well tuned antennae for pursuing and standing up a story and identifying at an early stage the editorial opportunities and challenges of a story
- Be a creative storyteller with strong interview skills and the ability to craft complex, multi-layered narratives across 6, 8 or 10 episodes.
- Be detail oriented, with a thorough approach to research and a laser sharp focus on accuracy
- Be comfortable working with executive producers, commissioners, and external stakeholders.
- Be able to manage their time effectively, work independently and respond positively to feedback.
- Be comfortable and experienced recording and editing audio for projects at this scale.
- Value collective excellence over individual ambition, collaborating with expert colleagues to optimise post-production, editorial, administrative and legal processes, where each team member’s contribution and effort is valued and respected.
- Have a deep knowledge of Blanchard House series and of narrative audio storytelling in general.
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