Licensing & Publishing Associate at Mavin Records

Mavin Records is Africa's leading entertainment company. Mavin Records is a Nigerian music corporation record label founded by record producer and recording artist Don Jazzy on 8 May 2012. The label's inception came to fruition following the closure of Mo' Hits Records, a record label owned by the aforementioned producer and D'banj.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Licensing & Publishing Associate

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Mavin Global is looking to hire a Licensing and Publishing associate to join our team. You will work closely with the Partnerships team and Management.

Responsibilities

• Conducting research on licensing and publishing opportunities locally and internationally.
• Review of external Artist release agreements, feature agreements, side artist agreements, split sheets, and other incidental release agreements.
• Registering catalogue with publishing partners
• Reviewing licensing requests
• Conducting research on licensing and publishing opportunities across the world
• Preparing business proposals for pitching new and existing works.
• Liaising with sync agencies, production companies & advertising agencies
• Developing creative strategies for new and existing works
• Regularly update artists’, songwriters’, publishers’, and rights holder’s repertoire with PPL, PRS, and other necessary collection societies.
• Regularly update publishers on releases.
• Reviewing and following up on licensing requests.
• Providing administrative support to Licensing and Publishing team.
• Follow up and execute projects as handed out from the Partnership Department.
• Build music portfolio locally and internationally
• Follow up on outstanding licensing deals
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Music enthusiast with LL.M and B.L in Law or other relevant discipline
• Excellent communication skills
• Good understanding of research
• Knowledgeable about market trends, music industry developments and innovations
• Highly motivated and organised with excellent time management skills

How we work:

• We love working async and this means you get to do your schedule.
• We empower ownership and proactivity and when in doubt default to action/asking instead of waiting.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.