Production Assistant

Job Description

Freelance Production Assistant - NBC Sports

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Job Description
This is a part-time project / limited term position with an estimated duration of up to 6 - 12 months, unless otherwise amended or terminated as deliverables within this project are completed.
As the Production Assistant, you are responsible for assisting production personnel in all phases of sports production for NBC's Sunday Night Football.

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, NFL agents, and third parties for asset collection
• Pitch game 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 SNF game and distribute to various networks
• Clip off production elements that aired during games each week
• Assist with the production of Sunday Night Football's Carrie Underwood Open each week
• Key liaison to the lead producers of SNF
• Responsible for relaying and disseminating information on a weekly basis to the production staff of SNF
• 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 Requirements:
• Bachelors' Degree or equivalent work experience
• 1-2 years' minimum of professional production experience

Desired Characteristics:
• Proven high level of NFL knowledge
• Sound knowledge and interest in sports television production
• Proficiency in Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Possess a high level of initiative
• Team player
Eligibility Requirements:
• Must be willing to work in Stamford, CT
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
Required On-Site: This position is required to be performed full-time from an NBCUniversal-designated worksite.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-02nvnm-216-73-217-88-42 in your application.