Archive Producer, Studios

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Job Title: Archive Producer, Women’s World Cup 2027

Department: Football Department

Overview of Job

An exciting opportunity to oversee our archive clearances for the Netflix Production of the Women’s World Cup 2027.

 

Working with the Edit & Live Producers this role will deliver archive clearances live match presentation programming and non-live content.

 

This role will require close working and alignment with the Edit & Live producers across the English, Spanish and French productions as well as managing archive clearances for the third party creative agency engaged by Netflix.

Reports To: Head of Football, Executive Producer, Snr Production Manager

Direct Reports: None.

Hours of Work: 40 hours per week on average. During event times hours may vary.

Contract Type / Length: Fixed Term/ approx. 8.5 months

Location: Stockley Park, Uxbridge

 

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Lead the end-to-end archive clearance process for live match presentation programming and non-live content across the Women’s World Cup 2027 production.
• Work closely with the Edit & Live Producers (IMG & third party agency) to identify archive requirements, assess feasibility and ensure requests are progressed in line with editorial and production schedules.
• Manage archive clearances across the English, Spanish and French language productions, maintaining clear communication and alignment between teams.
• Manage archive requirements and clearances for the third-party creative agency engaged by Netflix.
• Liaise with archive owners, rights holders, broadcasters, federations, agencies and other external suppliers to obtain permissions, costs, terms and delivery requirements.
• Maintain accurate records of archive requests, rights status, usage restrictions, costs, approvals, contracts and supporting paperwork.
• Ensure all archive is cleared for the intended platform, territory, language, programme, duration, transmission window and promotional use, as required.
• Work to ensure efficiencies are achieved where duplicate use of content/clearance bulk deals ae in place.
• Provide clear and timely updates on the status of archive requests, highlighting risks, delays, cost implications or rights limitations to the relevant production leads.
• Work with Production Management to monitor archive budgets, commitments, schedules and purchase order requirements.
• Coordinate the delivery, receipt and technical management of archive materials, working with the IMG Studios Media Management team and relevant editorial departments.
• Ensure archive material is correctly labelled, logged and available to the relevant edit and live production teams.
• Work with the Production Management and editorial teams to establish efficient workflows for archive requests, approvals, usage reporting and paperwork.
• Ensure archive usage is accurately documented for programme-as-produced paperwork, cue sheets, transmission records and any other required reporting.
• Support the resolution of archive queries during production, edit, transmission and post-production.
• Maintain a frequent and regular meeting cadence with Edit, Live, Production Management, Media Management, Netflix and third-party agency teams as required.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with key departmental personnel, clients, rights holders and suppliers.
• Respond effectively to feedback
• Support the delivery of high-quality and consistent programming on time, within budget and in accordance with client requirements.

 

Knowledge and Experience

Mandatory 

 

• Considerable experience as an Archive Producer/ Clearance Producer.
• Proven experience managing archive clearances from request through to approval, delivery and reporting.
• Good knowledge of rights, permissions, licensing terms and usage restrictions.
• Experience working with rights holders, broadcasters, agencies and external suppliers.
• Experience managing archive budgets, schedules and supporting paperwork.
• Experience working with Editors, Edit Producers, Live Producers and wider production teams.
• Understanding of football content, international sports production and live match presentation.

 

Desirable

 

• Experience working on a major international sporting event or tournament.
• Experience across multilingual productions.

§  Experience of scheduling tools.

§  Understanding of Remote Production Workflows.

• Knowledge of women’s football.

 

 

Skills and Abilities

Mandatory

• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple requests and changing priorities.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Clear and confident communication
• Ability to identify clearance risks and find practical solutions.
• Strong negotiation, relationship-management and collaboration skills.
• Able to work independently, make informed decisions and meet deadlines under pressure.
• Financially aware, with experience monitoring costs
• Proficient in standard office and production administration tools.

 

Desirable

• Technical understanding of broadcast, post-production and media management workflows.
• Fluency in Spanish and/or French.

 

In addition, success at IMG is driven by four core competencies that apply to all employees:

Business Acumen – Understanding financial drivers, interpreting business data, aligning decisions to strategic outcomes

Operational Excellence – Driving efficiency, governance, and continuous improvement in delivery & operations

Innovation Mindset – Cultivating curiosity, experimentation, and forward-looking capability development

Leadership & Collaboration – Inspiring others, building trust, and enabling collaboration across teams

 

 

Working Conditions

This role is based at IMG Offices, Stockley Park

 

This is a Fixed-Term contract for 8.5 months.

 

You will be required to work across all live output for Netflix’s coverage of the Women’s World Cup 2027 – this may require overnight work.

 

Our team is based across multiple time-zones, some online meetings will need to take place in the evening.

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