Producer, Live Events – Contract

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🕒 April 16

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $8k / month

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎪 Events

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Copper Courier

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1 - 10 employees

📱 Media

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Media • Education • Non-profit

Copper Courier is a local news outlet focused on delivering news and information relevant to Arizona communities. It emphasizes topics such as local elections, the economy, education, healthcare, housing, and infrastructure. Copper Courier also explores lifestyle topics including Arizona history, food and drink, outdoor activities, sports, and things to do. The publication is part of Courier Newsroom, Inc. , and provides free journalistic content to engage and inform its readers about community and legislative matters.

📋 Description

• Develop the editorial, creative, production, and operational blueprint for COURIER’s live events (town halls, debates, etc). • Build event formats that are designed from the outset to produce high-performing multi-platform content, including vertical video, long-form, newsletters, and live-stream. • Translate high-level editorial and brand vision from the CEO, leadership team and key sponsors/partners into a detailed, actionable production roadmap. • Lead all show production elements including staging, lighting, audio, video, livestream/broadcast, venue operations, scenic design, and technical direction. • Manage event budgets, vendor selection, contracting, and accountability across production categories. • Oversee timelines, run-of-show, production schedules, rehearsals, and technical checks for all events. • Work closely with COURIER’s CEO, editorial leadership, state newsroom and revenue teams to develop programming that is journalistically strong, accessible, audience-minded, and achieving key sponsor and partner objectives. • Coordinate with talent, guests, subject-matter experts, moderators, elected officials, and public figures. • Serve as a senior advisor to other COURIER National video products/series and talent. • Partner with local hosts, venues, civic organizations, political offices, and community groups to ensure seamless execution. • Collaborate with internal teams (Social, Video, Growth, Newsletter, Events, and Sales/Underwriting) to fully integrate event content and maximize post-event distribution. • Manage sponsor expectations for events that include underwriting or branded content integrations. • Build and manage a comprehensive production budget, with strong attention to cost efficiency and operational rigor. • Ensure compliance with venue, legal, political, and safety requirements.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong political and cultural editorial content, talent, and digital distribution strategy instincts • Proven success producing high-impact live events: political town halls, debates, broadcast specials, civic forums, major conferences, or large-scale entertainment. • Experience leading multi-department production teams (technical, creative, editorial, and operations). • Strong vendor relationships and the ability to negotiate and manage complex production ecosystems. • Demonstrated ability to produce events that generate content beyond the room — built for distribution across social, video, and owned channels. • Ability to thrive under pressure with fixed deadlines and high public visibility. • Comfort navigating politically sensitive environments and working with elected officials, talent, and public figures. • Preferred Background in political media, live journalism formats, or civic-focused programming. • Experience producing events optimized for vertical video and multi-platform content distribution. • Familiarity with digital newsrooms and audience-first storytelling. • Experience working with event and content sponsorship and advertising partners.