Production Assistant, College Football

Job Description

Freelance Production Assistant, College Football - NBC Sports

Responsibilities

This is a part-time project / limited term position with an estimated duration for College Football season (August 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
• Run the edit for sports Emmy submissions throughout the year – clipping off Emmy segments from games to create 'selects' cutdowns

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelors' Degree or equivalent work experience
• 1-2 years minimum of professional production experience

Desired Characteristics:
• Available to start July/early August 2023
• 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

Eligibility Requirements:
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
• 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

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re2ee5-3-129-45-92-42 in your application.