Production Assistant, College Football

Job Description

Freelance Production Assistant, College Football - NBC Sports

Responsibilities

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Job Description

This is a part-time project / limited term position with an estimated duration for College Football season (Mid-Late May to December) unless otherwise amended.

As a Production Assistant, you are responsible for assisting production personnel in all phases of sports production for NBC's College Football coverage.

Responsibilities:
• Organize weekly edit projects for producers and editors
• Gather video and photo assets to use in packages and other elements
• Reach out to PR teams and third parties for asset collection
• Pitch game or studio ideas in weekly meetings with the assigned production team
• Help create select sequences for producers to use when editing teases – assisting with shot selection and securing footage
• Restore and manage offline media and retrieve archived assets from MAM
• Archive and catalogue footage
• Create screeners to send out to the production team and other parties
• Create and log melts for College Football games and distribute to various networks
• Clip off production elements that aired during games each week
• Key liaison to the lead producers of College Football
• Responsible for relaying and disseminating information on a weekly basis to the production staffs
• Ability to dissect the intricacies of football using graphics and telestration (Piero)
• Run the edit for sports Emmy submissions throughout the year – clipping off Emmy segments from games to create 'selects' cutdowns

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:
• Bachelors' Degree or equivalent work experience
• 1-2 years minimum of professional production experience
• Must be available to start mid-May/June 2024

Desired Characteristics:
• Solid knowledge of College Football
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
• Interest in sports television production
• Possess a high level of initiative
• Team player

Additional Requirements:
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
• Must be willing to work in Stamford, CT
• Must be able to work weekends

Required On-Site: This position is required to be performed full-time from an NBCUniversal-designated worksite - Stamford, CT.

Additional Information

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gm02e6-3-142-195-24-42 in your application.