Media Coordinator

Job Description

Freelance Media Coordinator

Responsibilities

Role Purpose:
This position is responsible for the organization, tracking, and management of digital content for use by our various Production units within the NBC Sports Group. The role serves as a first line of support for Production that runs 24/7, both at our NBC Sports Facility (Stamford, CT) and our various broadcast remote locations. This individual will be part of a team that involves all aspects of Production workflows (creation, documentation, support) and ensuring that they meet their deadlines. This role will work alongside our Broadcast & Post Engineering group, triaging the day-to-day issues and escalating as needed.

Responsibilities:
• Familiarity with Content Metadata and/or Enhanced Descriptive Metadata entry & editing
• Partner with business units and teams to ensure data needs are met and ensure the operational excellence and on-time delivery of all requisite data to distribution partners
• Support documentation of workflows, operational processes, and migration of documentation into team collaboration tools (Asana, Teams)
• Assist with onboarding of new clients into our distribution platforms (GolfPass, Peacock) including communicating with contacts, creating specifications and test files, client profiles, and troubleshooting
• Support of infrastructure, software tools, and physical equipment related to the Mastering and Archive of digital content
• Creation of ingest specifications and workflows for incoming media, creation of delivery specifications and workflows for recipients and emerging distribution outlets.
• Review and QC digital audio and video delivered by partners for publish to CDNs
• Understanding of file transfer tools such as Aspera, Sigiant, FTP
• Strong understanding of various audio and video containers/codecs used in professional and consumer environments (J2K, ProRes, MP4 video codecs, AAC, AC3, PCM audio codecs)
• Experience with Live and VOD stand-alone and cloud based video encoding solutions such as ffmpeg, Elemental, vMix, Haivision.
• Ingesting camera ENG and applying LUT's appropriately using a variety of tools (Avid, Adobe, Davinci, Telestream); processing/relinking HDR, 2K+ file based media.
• Ensuring production assets are archived so that they can easily be retrieved
• Managing the daily ingest of recorded events (pressers, shows, sporting events) and cataloguing appropriately
• Monitoring & managing the storage levels of multiple workgroups and workspaces and acting accordingly
• Providing daily support to Production in prioritizing asset restore requests in a timely period
• Assisting Production in both the distribution and retrieval of content using various digital deliveries (MediaShuttle, DropBox, etc.)
• Transcoding content to required specifications using a variety of tools (Avid, Adobe, Telestream, EVS)
• Able to assist Production on a technical level with media issues throughout facility and escalating to Engineering when required
• Taking the time to educate Production of the various workflows available to them
• Ensuring the proper assembling and delivery of media for various remotes via hard drives (Tour de France, NASCAR, etc.)

Qualifications/Requirements
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in TV Production or related field
• Minimum two (2) years of experience and working knowledge of Avid products (Interplay, Access, and Media Composer) or similar editing product
• Experience with ingesting footage//camera masters preferred
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to understand immediate issues and respond to meet day-of-air deadline.

Eligibility Requirements:
• Must be willing to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends and holidays and must be able to adapt with little notice.
• Must be willing to travel on occasion
• Must be willing to work in Orlando, FL
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
• It is the policy of NBCUniversal and NBCUniversal' s affiliated businesses to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Desired Characteristics

Desired Characteristics:
• Asset Management system knowledge a plus
• Vantage knowledge a plus
• Cursory knowledge of video codecs
• Individual embracing and enthusiastic with new technologies
• Experience within a broadcast and/or post production environment
• Excellent communication and client skills
• Attention to detail and responsiveness
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Knowledge of Edit products preferred (Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premier/MediaEncoder)
• Technologically Proficient
• Is self-motivated, capable of working independently but also alongside a team as required.
• Able to handle and prioritize a high volume of production requests within a timely period

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d88226-3-149-230-44-42 in your application.