Director, Sustainable Film Production & Content

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

The Film Content Strategy and Business Development department is a highly visible group that works closely with high-profile management across Comcast and NBCUniversal worldwide. The group works in conjunction with other business units within the Filmed Entertainment Group of NBCU on a wide range of strategic initiatives.

The Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG) is the motion picture division of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. UFEG develops, produces, markets and distributes feature films on a worldwide basis across all consumer platforms. UFEG’s films are released under several owned film labels that include Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Illumination and DreamWorks. Major recent releases include Jurassic World: Dominion, F9: The Fast Saga, Minions 2 and Nope. More information can be found at www.universalpictures.com.

We are seeking highly qualified candidates for the position of Director, Sustainable Film Production & Content. This position will manage sustainability processes for content development and productions across UFEG. Specific projects will include managing the newly launched GreenerLight Program to incorporate sustainability within the development, greenlight, production and post-release processes, as well as overseeing the sustainable production efforts for UFEG releases. This role reports to the Vice President of Film Strategy & Operations. In addition, the role has accountability and reporting to the NBCU Enterprise Sustainability Production Content Leader. The role’s focus is on Film Sustainability efforts but with a strong tie to the company-wide commitments made for Sustainability.

UFEG Responsibilities Include:

Oversee the GreenerLight Program efforts from script to screen:

• Work closely with top level creatives and Executives across the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group to integrate streamlined climate storytelling into greenlighting and script review processes  
• Prepare individual sustainability program descriptions to insert into title’s Greenlight packages
• Collaborate with outside experts to provide script consultations on climate messaging for select projects
• Partner with outside experts to gather data-driven audience insight
• Partner with climate-concerned UFEG talent and filmmakers
• Collaborate with story department and creative executives to seek out climate stories
• Working with franchise management, UFEG comms and publicity and more to identify ways beyond the script to create climate messaging (i.e. brand partnerships, “edutainment” series, etc)
• Identify opportunities to roll out impact campaigns & PSAs tied to UFEG titles
• Oversee Eco-advisor selection and hiring process, and serve as their main studio contact
• Oversee kickoff, pre & post mortem calls for individual films, and join other standing UFEG meetings
• Update materials including prep and wrap deliverables, carbon and KPI data, and EMA applications
• Support crew and production personnel on sustainable production issues and opportunities
• Oversee execution of food and set material donation program and partnerships on UFEG productions
• Expand beyond directly-produced productions, offering resources to Joint Ventures, Term Deals, Animation, etc.

Enterprise Sustainability Responsibilities Include:

• Champion the Company’s Sustainability strategy within Film
• Report progress, wins and challenges regularly to the Corporate Enterprise Sustainable Production & Content department
• Partner on collection and delivery of carbon data for company disclosure, tracking procedures within finance, and data a