Development Coordinator

• Liaising internally with SMEs, executives, creative development, visual development, and toy-for-entertainment teams, and externally with agents, showrunners, writers, and clients to ensure the day-to-day organization and tracking of key development deliverables.
• Responsibilities include initiating and booking meetings with key creatives, taking detailed meeting notes, managing and collecting start-up paperwork, and distributing NDAs and other support materials as needed.
• Distributing scripts and other creative support documents as required.
• Under supervision, breaking down scripts; proofreading; and inputting, evaluating, and tracking scripts and properties in development.
• Tracking and maintaining script schedules for all series and projects in development.
• Managing asset organization for development projects, including filing materials within internal systems and recording visual assets in an ongoing art history / visual reference deck.
• Filing, logging, and tracking submissions and acquisitions for review; creating agendas for submission review discussions with the Director and Development Executive; and flagging projects requiring follow-up or response.
• Updating departmental presentations on a monthly basis to reflect the latest visual development assets and ensure written creative updates accurately represent current project status.
• Handling accounts and expenses related to development projects, including resolving issues with oversight from the Line Producer.
• Providing general support to the Development team, including but not limited to script/creative, visual development, departmental presentations, and toy-for-entertainment teams.

•  Experience in animated children’s television series productions, in a production assistant or production coordinator role.
• A high level of proficiency in Word, MS Outlook, Final Draft, Power Point and Excel.
• Must have initiative, flexibility, adaptability, common sense, resourcefulness and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and alone; to identify issues, troubleshoot, ask questions, and propose solutions.
• Ability to prioritize and handle last minute changes in a positive and professional manner.
• Enthusiastic and passionate about storytelling and a love for children’s animation.

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The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in Ontario is $60,000 to $65,000 Per Annum. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Growth and Career Opportunities

• Flexible Work Hours

• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun

• Comprehensive Benefits

• Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.