Sr. Coordinator, Awards Jobs

Location: Santa Monica, CA, US, 90404. This position sits in our Santa Monica office 4 days a week. Fridays are work from home.

Summary of Position

The Sr. Coordinator, Awards will report into the Executive Director, Awards & Talent Relations and support across all phases of the awards process: pre-entry through post-ceremony over 50 awards programs each year.

Responsibilities

• Assist with budgeting, invoicing and coding expenses
• Cover awards screenings and events both during the workday and some after hours and weekends
• Help with all aspects of awards submissions and logistics, including heavy proofreading, mailing procedures, materials review, copy editing, and coordination between studio awards team and guilds, mailing houses, critics' groups and other awards organizations
• Maintain historical data for awards and network including tallies
• Coordinate talent, producer and executive requirements for all award show attendees, including ensuring travel and grooming are appropriately executed and that itineraries are correctly delivered in a timely fashion
• Assist with communications to awards organizations relating to all submissions, ceremonies, FYC events, and outreach
• Maintain Awards recordkeeping for Starz, keep information up to date and press ready
• Assist Executive Director with coordinating award show seating, ticketing, and program ads for talent and executives
• Organize and coordinate eligibility and outreach for annual TV Academy membership drive
• Cover Awards email inbox
• Assist with eblasts creation and obtaining internal and external ATAS and Guild approvals for various FYC invitations/written materials
• Responsible for selecting (in collaboration with the publicity team), reviewing, routing, and submitting all clips necessary for both awards submissions and award show needs
• Work with the Executive Director on annual awards submissions and coordinate entry information and assets required for submissions across all appropriate awards opportunities
• Together with the Sr. Manager, Events & Awards, coordinate Guild and ATAS FYC event and panel needs - including invite creation and dissemination to members and participate in onsite staffing of events

Qualifications & Skills

• 2+ years of awards & talent relations experience at a studio, network, agency or PR/marketing firm is preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Multi-tasker and ability to efficiently prioritize a large volume of tasks and responsibilities
• Deadline driven, meticulously detail oriented and extremely organized
• Adaptable to the ever-changing awards landscape
• Experience escorting talent at awards events and FYC panels is a plus
• Ability to calmly and professionally navigate stressful situations with a positive approach

About the Company

STARZ (www.starz.com), a Lionsgate company, is a leading global media streaming platform committed to delivering premium content that amplifies narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences. STARZ is home to the highly rated and first-of-its-kind STARZ app that offers the ability to stream or download STARZ premium content, as well as the flagship domestic STARZ® service, including STARZ ENCORE, 17 premium pay TV channels, and the associated on-demand and online services. In 2018, STARZ launched its international premium streaming platform STARZPLAY, now LIONSGATE+, to provide subscribers access to bold, curated storytelling. LIONSGATE+, coupled with the STARZPLAY ARABIA joint venture in MENA and Lionsgate Play in South and Southeast Asia, has a footprint that extends across the globe. STARZ and LIONSGATE+ are available across digital OTT platforms and multichannel video distributors, including cable operators, satellite television providers, and telecommunications companies around the world. In February 2021, STARZ launched #TakeTheLead, a multi-faceted and innovative inclusion initiative expanding its existing efforts to improve representation on screen, behind the camera and throughout the company.

Business Unit Overview

STARZ

With the Company aligning its studio operations behind the growth of its streaming business, STARZ has become one of the pre-eminent modern premium global streaming platforms. Offering subscribers more than 7.500 television episodes, including STARZ original series and provocative documentaries, along with a broad catalogue of first-run movies, STARZ is taking the lead in delivering relatable premium content that makes it the platform of choice among a wide spectrum of female, African-American and other historically underrepresented audiences. Its focused brand, premium content and freedom from legacy relationships position STARZ at the forefront of the new bundles emerging throughout the media ecosystem, a compelling value proposition to complement virtually every kind of subscription platform.

Distinguished by its successful and focused content strategy, top programming, exceptional curation and speed to market, STARZ has quickly scaled its platform to become one of the most widely distributed and fastest-growing OTT services in the world, with OTT subscribers making up more than half of its global subscriber base. The company’s international premium subscription service, LIONSGATE+, offers subscribers access to bold, curated storytelling around the world. LIONGATE+ has a footprint that extends across the globe and continues to expand its network of distribution partners. In addition to its LIONSGATE+ markets, it reaches audiences in the Middle East and North African region through STARZPLAY ARABIA and in South and Southeast Asia with Lionsgate Play. The proprietary and highly-rated STARZ app, a proven hit with U.S. audiences, continues to roll out internationally.

Our Benefits

• Work/Life Balance – generous sick days, vacation days, holidays, and Impact Day
• Tuition Reimbursement (up to graduate degree)
• 401(k) company matching
• Full Coverage – Medical, Vision, and Dental

Compensation

$60,000 - $65,000

EEO Statement

Lionsgate is an equal employment opportunity employer. All employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws. In addition, Lionsgate will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Lionsgate will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and federal law.