PRODUCTION ASSISTANT / PRODUCTION MANAGER

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Job description

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT / PRODUCTION MANAGER (Film/Videography/Photography) Our company is a growing film, videography, and photography production company based in Addis Ababa. We are looking for a dedicated, reliable, and organized Production Assistant / Production Manager to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis. This is a hands on role, at the centre of everything we do, from pre-production paperwork to being the last one standing on a long shoot night. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is NOT a standard 9-to-5 position. Before applying, please understand the following: • Shoot days regularly run 12–16 hours or longer • Back-to-back shoot days are common • Saturdays are MANDATORY — no exceptions • Sundays are off only when there is no active production demand • A minimum 6-month commitment is required • This is a salaried role — extended hours are part of the position, not overtime If predictable hours or weekends off are a requirement for you, this role is not the right fit at this time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Documentation & Administration • Prepare and manage production documents: contracts, call sheets, shot lists, permits, talent releases, official correspondence • Produce client-facing materials: technical proposals, creative briefs, PPM decks, and presentation documents • Track expenses, manage receipts, and assist with financial reporting across departments Casting, Auditions & Crew Hiring • Coordinate casting calls, audition sessions, and talent scheduling • Source and vet crew members, freelancers, and contractors • Maintain an updated database of talent and production contacts Location Scouting & Logistics • Research, visit, and document shoot locations • Handle location permits, agreements, and access coordination Contracts & Legal Documents • Draft and manage contracts for cast, crew, locations, and vendors • Maintain an organized archive of all agreements Financial Coordination • Track departmental expenses and reconcile against approved budgets • Flag cost overruns early and assist with petty cash management Pre-Production Support • Manage scheduling between crew, talent, clients, and locations • Coordinate equipment checklists and rental logistics On-Set Support • Arrive on time and prepared — always • Assist with equipment setup, transport, and wrap • Run errands, solve problems, keep production moving Safety, Conduct & Client Relations • Communicate safety protocols to all crew before each shoot • Maintain a professional and respectful attitude with all clients, talent, crew, and vendors, every interaction represents Qene Films. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REQUIREMENTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Proficient on a laptop, smart phone & digital communication platform, Mac / iPhone experience is a strong advantage • Able to write professional documents and communications in both English and Amharic • Strong organizational skills and high attention to detail • Calm, solution-focused mindset when working under pressure • Punctual and dependable; on time, every time • Willingness to work irregular hours without complaint • Genuine interest in production work, not just any available job ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT WE OFFER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Stable monthly salary — full-time, permanent position • Real, hands-on experience across diverse productions • A small, committed team that values competence and reliability • Long-term growth opportunity for the right person ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO APPLY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ On your cover letter, write or share; Your Full Name (including Grandfather); Your phone No.; Your neighborhood; And a short cover letter written by you, not a template, explaining: • 1.why you want to work in production specifically & 2.what makes you reliable and committed. (Applications that show you have read and understood this posting will be prioritized. Copy-pasted or generic applications will not be considered.)