Rights Manager - 10 Month FTC

What you'll be doing…

The Rights Team is a central operations team working alongside the Legal Team, based in Bath but working for all of Future’s global offices. The role of a Rights Manager is to ensure content used across the business is cleared for use in the way Future brands, platforms, and licensing partner’s require. 

The role also involves advising, informing, and training editorial teams around the business to ensure standard procedures are followed.

Key Responsibilities:

Contracts

• Assist with the sending out of contributor contracts and ensuring each contributor is allocated the correct type of contract for their work type/commission type.
• Assisting with resolving contract issues (working with relevant teams where required) and issuing amended documents when necessary
• Sending out monthly contract chasers using the Rights Dashboard and updating monthly stats for the business.

Training

• Run/assist with monthly training sessions for all relevant internal staff, including new starters, using Zoom webinars and a live chat/Q&A  feature.
• Keep the training sheet up to date with live/online training completion, rights quiz completion, new starters, and leavers.

Music

• Renew annual PPL license to play music in the workplace. This involves auditing the offices owned/occupied by the business to establish no. of employees listening to music out loud.
• Renew annual LOML/ASCAP licenses for any of our websites that require a license to play copyrighted music hosted on their sites - currently GuitarWorld, LouderSound, and MusicRadar.
• Renew Annual PRS IPC Licence for Future Studios - this covers us for music contained within our TV productions.

General

• Assisting the Head of Rights with projects and tasks where required including acquisition migration tasks if applicable 
• Assisting with general queries in Rights inbox and via Rights Slack channel.
• Ensure the Rights Wiki site is kept up to date in terms of information and branding.

Experience that will put you ahead of the curve…

• Ability to manage workflow successfully across a portfolio of media brands
• Have an understanding of copyright law and feel confident enough to answer general rights queries
• Ability to work efficiently under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Excellent self-discipline, communication, organisational, and time management skills. 
• Ability to cover the basics of roles of other team members during holidays/sickness. 

What's in it for you…

We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff.  We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed in to one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.

Internal job family level Editorial 6

The expected range for this role is £25,000 - £32,000

This is a Remote based role

Who are we…

We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it. 

Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made so we can give you the best experience!

Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

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