President of Production (Volunteer)

Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills. Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward.
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President of Production (Volunteer)
PromiseStudios | Studio Production, Creative Operations & Content Delivery
Organization Mentor A Promise (MAP)
Division PromiseStudios
Location Fully Remote — United States, with NYC-based production and collaboration as needed
Type Volunteer Senior Executive Creative Leadership
Commitment Approximately 5–10 hours per week
Minimum Commitment 6 months
Reports To Chief Creative Officer / Executive Leadership
Leads Production across PromiseStudios
Directly Oversees Producers, Senior Producers, Production Managers, Project Managers, and designated production leadership
Works Closely With Creative Directors, Animation, Film & Cinema, Photography, Music & Sound, Post-Production, Motion Design & VFX, Studio Operations, PromisePages, PromiseBrands, PromiseVoice, PromiseTrust, PromiseShield, and other MAP teams
About Mentor A Promise
Mentor A Promise (MAP) is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth ages 5–18 experiencing housing instability through mentorship, education, enrichment, creative expression, career development, advocacy, and community-centered opportunity.
Through PromiseStudios, MAP brings together creative professionals to develop original stories, films, animation, music, photography, audio, and multidisciplinary media capable of reaching audiences while creating meaningful opportunities for young people.
About PromiseStudios
PromiseStudios is MAP's multidisciplinary creative production division.
The studio brings together specialized creative disciplines including
Creative Development & Originals
Film & Cinema
Animation
Photography & Visual Storytelling
Motion Design & VFX
Music, Audio & Sound
Post-Production
Creative Production
Studio Operations
PromiseStudios should operate as a studio of specialized creative disciplines—not a collection of disconnected projects.
The President of Production helps make that possible.
Role Overview
MAP is seeking an experienced President of Production to serve as the senior production executive responsible for how PromiseStudios turns creative ideas into completed work.
This leader will build and oversee the production infrastructure connecting development, pre-production, production, post-production, delivery, and archival across the studio.
The President of Production does not replace MAP's creative leadership.
Creative leaders determine what PromiseStudios should create and establish the creative vision.
The President of Production determines how the studio can responsibly produce it.
The central question is
How do we build a production organization capable of taking ambitious creative ideas from concept to completion—without losing the vision, the people, or the discipline required along the way?
Studio-Wide Production Leadership
Lead production strategy across PromiseStudios.
Provide production oversight for projects involving
Film
Animation
Photography
Music
Audio
Podcasts
Motion graphics
Visual effects
Original content
Digital media
Branded creative work
Cross-disciplinary productions
Special creative initiatives
Establish production standards that can accommodate different creative disciplines without forcing every project through an identical process.
A short animated film and a photography project should not require the same production system.
They should require the same level of production discipline.
From Development to Delivery
Build a studio-wide production lifecycle
Concept → Development → Greenlight → Pre-Production → Production → Post-Production → Review → Delivery → Distribution Readiness → Archive → Learning
Establish clear expectations at each stage.
Before production begins, teams should understand
What are we creating?
Who owns the creative direction?
Who is producing it?
What resources are required?
What is the scope?
What are the deliverables?
What dependencies exist?
What rights must be addressed?
What is the timeline?
What does finished mean?
Production should not begin simply because everyone is excited about the idea.
Production Portfolio
Maintain visibility across PromiseStudios' complete production portfolio.
Develop systems for understanding
Projects in development
Projects awaiting approval
Active productions
Production schedules
Creative ownership
Producers
Staffing requirements
Dependencies
Resource needs
Production risks
Post-production status
Delivery dates
Completed projects
Paused projects
Studio leadership should be able to understand what PromiseStudios is making without asking twenty different people.
Greenlight & Production Readiness
Help establish a disciplined process for determining whether a project is ready to enter production.
Evaluate
Creative Readiness → Scope → Talent → Resources → Schedule → Rights → Risk → Production Capacity → Delivery Requirements → Decision
The President of Production should be empowered to identify when a project is creatively exciting but operationally unprepared.
Sometimes the most responsible production decision is
Not yet.
Production Planning
Ensure significant productions have appropriate plans covering
Scope
Production stages
Staffing
Schedules
Milestones
Assets
Locations
Equipment
Technical requirements
Production dependencies
Post-production
Rights requirements
Accessibility
Distribution deliverables
Contingencies
Final delivery
Creative ambition should be supported by production reality.
The President of Production should not make ambitious ideas smaller simply because they are difficult.
The role should help the studio understand what those ideas require to become real.
Producer Organization
Build and lead PromiseStudios' producer structure.
This may include
Executive Producers
Senior Producers
Creative Producers
Animation Producers
Film Producers
Podcast Producers
Music Producers
Associate Producers
Production Managers
Production Coordinators
Clarify responsibilities and decision authority across production roles.
Develop producers who can independently manage increasingly complex projects.
The President of Production should not become the producer of every project.
The President should build an organization full of people capable of producing them.
Production Management
Establish strong production-management practices across the studio.
Ensure projects have
Owner → Producer → Creative Lead → Team → Milestones → Dependencies → Reviews → Delivery
Build systems for
Scheduling
Production tracking
Resource planning
Status reporting
Asset management
Production meetings
Reviews
Approvals
Escalation
Delivery
Archiving
Creative freedom benefits from operational clarity.
Creative Leadership Partnership
Work closely with the Chief Creative Officer and Creative Directors.
Maintain a clear distinction
Creative leadership owns the vision.
Production leadership owns the pathway that makes the vision executable.
When creative leaders propose changes, production should explain the implications
What changes?
What work must be redone?
Who is affected?
What additional resources are required?
What happens to the schedule?
What alternatives exist?
The answer should not automatically be no.
The answer should explain what yes requires.
Cross-Disciplinary Production
Build production systems capable of coordinating projects ac

Work arrangement
Yes