Bath Spa Live

Story Operations Lead

Bath Spa Live

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £44,746 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Please note, this role is open to internal canidates only and applications from external candiates will not be considered.
  • The Story Society is seeking a Story Operations Lead to unify our ambitious multi-platform publishing portfolio — spanning books, video, live events, and interactive media productions.
  • Shape robust systems and operational structures that serve others, enabling emerging writers and producers to deliver work of international quality and impact.
  • Design and run a publishing production line that integrates creative vision with financial and logistical discipline.
  • Role has a strong creative production component, but is not an opportunity to develop one’s own career as an author, researcher, or lecturer.
  • This is a fixed term contract for a period of 13 months.
  • Ensure seamless project execution, compliance, and the highest standards of creativity and efficiency; lead commissioning and production cycles and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver integrated publishing outputs.
  • Financial and Data Oversight: Strategically interpret and apply financial and operational data to ensure sustainable delivery of ambitious, multi-platform publishing portfolios.
  • Story Governance and Compliance: Uphold publishing, editorial, branding, legal, ethical, and organisational standards, proactively managing risks to safeguard public identity and reputation.
  • Operational and Editorial Logistics: Programme, produce, and deliver ambitious multi-platform publications with editorial coherence, logistical discipline, and operational precision.
  • Pre- and Post-Award Commissioning Cycles: Design and implement robust commissioning and production systems that provide clarity, accountability, and consistent quality across multiple projects and collaborators.
  • External and Inter-Departmental Literary Ecosystem Planning: Build and sustain strategic partnerships, contracts, and operational structures that enable long-term coherence, innovation, and sector impact.
  • Personal Qualities in Action: Demonstrate value-based leadership, resilience, and a solutions-driven approach, inspiring teams and collaborators to achieve ambitious goals while serving the vision of others.

Requirements

  • A degree in English, Creative Writing, Publishing, Media, or a related discipline (with GCSE Maths Grade A or equivalent), or equivalent experience
  • Extensive professional experience in multi-platform publishing operations, including designing, commissioning, and delivering high-quality outputs (must be able to produce books, films, manuscripts, live/online events, & interactive productions).
  • Proven track record in overseeing and integrating complex portfolios, including financial planning, budget oversight, and resource allocation, with evidence of delivering multi-strand, national-level productions on time and within scope.
  • Demonstrable experience of pre- and post-award management, including preparing reports, monitoring compliance, and ensuring accountability to funders and partners.
  • Experience liaising with and influencing diverse stakeholders within UK Creative Writing ecologies, including funders, collaborators and external partners.
  • Financial and Data Oversight: Able to strategically interpret financial and operational data to ensure the sustainable delivery of complex, multi-platform publishing portfolios.
  • Story Governance and Compliance: Ensures all outputs meet branding, legal, ethical, and organisational standards, managing risk while safeguarding operational integrity across diverse projects.
  • Operational and Editorial Logistics: Expert in programming, producing, and delivering ambitious multi-platform publications with editorial coherence and operational precision.
  • Pre- and Post-Award Commissioning Cycles: Designs and implements commissioning and production systems that ensure clarity, accountability, and high-quality output across multiple projects and partners.
  • External and Inter-Departmental Literary Ecosystem Planning: Builds and maintains internal and external partnerships, operational structures, and initiatives that support sustainable, coherent, and ambitious multi-platform publishing.
  • Personal Qualities: Demonstrates value-based leadership, resilience, and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset, inspiring teams and collaborators to achieve ambitious, multi-platform outcomes while balancing operational, editorial, and strategic priorities.