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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 a Production Assistant, you are responsible for assisting production personnel in all phases of sports production for Amazon’s Thursday 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 TNF games and distribute to various networks
- Clip off production elements that aired during games each week
- Proficiency in Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
- Key liaison to the lead producers of TNF
- Responsible for relaying and disseminating information on a weekly basis to the production staffs of TNF
- 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
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills
- Possess a high level of initiative
- Must be a team player
Eligibility Requirements:
- Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered
- 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.
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