Creative Projects & Partnerships Associate

About the Role

We're looking for someone who enjoys connecting with people, organizing work, and helping ideas become real projects. You’ll work closely with the founding team to turn dreams and ideas into workable plans, coordinate with stakeholders, and keep projects moving. Building relationships is central to this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Build relationships: Research and reach out to potential guests, collaborators, venues, and organizations. Represent Disblur in conversations, build rapport, and follow up towards agreed next steps.
• Plan projects: Break ideas into tasks, timelines, and practical requirements. Keep track of responsibilities, progress, and decisions that need attention.
• Coordinate production and activities: Help organize interviews, documentary shoots, workshops, and events, including locations, freelancers, equipment, and permissions.
• Manage schedules: Arrange meetings and project activities, maintain calendars, and keep everyone informed of plans and changes.
• Organise travel: Plan itineraries, transport, and accommodation within agreed budgets. Travel with the founder and collaborators when projects require it.
• Keep information organised: Maintain contact lists, meeting notes, project documents, and expense records.
• Support consistent progress: Help maintain a steady working rhythm through clear priorities, timely follow-ups, and realistic commitments.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Ability to communicate, plan, and take responsibility.
• Comfortable working with calendars, spreadsheets, shared documents, and task-management tools.
• Willingness to travel.

Qualifications

• Early-career applicants are welcome.
• Curiosity about people, ideas, and creative work.
• Examples of taking responsibility (from college activities, volunteering, independent projects, or employment).
• Clear communication skills.
• Comfort speaking with new people.
• Ability to take an idea, ask useful questions, and figure out practical steps.
• Ability to notice potential delays and communicate them early.
• Adaptability when plans change and ability to help find practical solutions.
• Experience in a startup, project coordination, partnerships, client servicing, community work, or events would be useful.
• Examples of how you have organized work and helped bring something to completion.

A particular degree or film industry background isn’t essential.

Salary: Up to ₹3.6 LPA, with potential for increments.

Approved work travel and project expenses are covered separately.