Post-Production Producer - The Council - Lebanon

The Council is looking for a full-time post production producer.

About The Council for Visual Affairs
We are a post-production company that specializes in Visual Effects, motion design and editing for Films, TV, Commercials, Documentaries, and innovative visual projects.
Becoming a Councillor
- Our team of Councillors are ‘serious amateurs’. We’re fun but productive. Self starters able to work in the usually challenging conditions of visually driven content creation environments.
- We stick together and foster an open development space for each other both as individuals and as a team. If you’re truly open to it, you can grow as far as your capabilities can take you.
- Working hours are from 9am to 6pm, but work tends to be carried out outside normal working hours, every now and then.
- Our employment package offers a possibility to work on various types of projects, and develop your skills across a wide range of fields.

Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts, Audio Visual or Graphic Design or a three year working experience in the Media field. Languages: English, Arabic. French is a plus.

Skills/Qualifications
Reporting Skills, Administrative Writing Skills, Microsoft Office Skills (MS Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint), Managing Processes, Organization, Analyzing Information , Professionalism, Problem Solving, Supply Management, Inventory Control, Verbal Communication.
In your job (Roles and Responsibilities).
Once appointed a Councilor, and to complement our team of VFX artists, motion designers, illustrators, and film editors, you will:
- Ensure that all The Council's resources are operating efficiently.
- Provide assistance to freelance resources, introducing facilities policies and procedures.
- Maintain and restock office supplies.
- Ensure efficient operation of the post production process, from the arrival of the original data files through the delivery of the final product to the client.
- Produce and follow up projects from beginning till completion.
- Maintain accurate scheduling of equipment, post production suites, meetings and deliverables.
- Schedule regular equipment maintenance.
- Assist artist to perform their tasks within the required schedule and budget.
- Respond to content delivery requests from clients.
- Create, initiate and maintain forms to track resource usage and expenditures.
Administrative responsibilities
- Resolve administrative problems by coordinating preparation of reports, analyzing data, and identifying solutions.
- Maintain workflow by studying methods; implement cost reductions; and develop reporting procedures.
- Send and prepare invoices and receipts for clients.
- Follow up on client payments.
- Ensure all company project transactions are well documented and archived.
Client servicing
- Host client visitors: meet and greet hospitality, provide assistance when needed.
- Complete operational requirements by managing job time sheets and project sheets; scheduling and assigning administrative projects; expediting and reporting work results.
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related tasks as needed.
Production assistance (If/When needed)
- Be a ‘data wrangler’: back up video material from cards and drives
- Encode files for DVD and web use
- Author DVDs, duplicate small quantities of DVDs
- Negotiate permissions and facilities fees for location filming
- Subtitle productions

info@thecouncil.com.lb

Graphic/Senior Designer - Africell - Lebanon

Description
Graphic Designer and Visual Communicator needed for a fast-growing firm involved with Telecommunication. Responsible for the conception, design, development, documentation and implementation of BTL and ATL projects for the company, as well as the strategic support on business operations.

Requirements
- 3+ years working within a design firm or other creative team environment
- Strong, conceptual thinker who possesses a wide range of design capabilities including a solid background in print, packaging, branding, typography, catalog production, retail graphics and also some web design experience
- Comfortable working with a team, under the supervision of a Senior person
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills and motivation for their work
- Successfully manages their time, work flow and schedule in order to meet strict and sometimes aggressive deadlines
- Open and receptive to design critique but also able to represent their own work and stand up for design they believe in
- Able to work quickly and efficiently
- Have some photo art direction experience
- Self-driven, proactive and a team player
- Must take pride in their work and be passionate about design
- Expertise in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator
- Candidate must be self-sufficient and have good English and French oral and written communications skills.

Send Resume along with a copy of work/Portfolio to pkaikati@africell.com