Specialist, Media Operations

About the job

Hybrid/Full Time

Are you passionate about the technical side of media production and ready to play a crucial role in delivering high-quality content to audiences nationwide? The E.W. Scripps Company is seeking a detail-oriented Media Operations Specialist to ensure the accuracy, quality, and timely processing of all long-form media for our networks. You’ll be at the heart of our media workflow, working with cutting-edge technology and collaborating with teams across the organization to maintain the exceptional standards that define Scripps content.

This is your opportunity to contribute to the seamless delivery of programming that informs and entertains millions of viewers.

• Create and maintain folders; download media, confirm CC
• Receive timing sheet from editors; confirm TRTs, house number and title info;
  Deliver to QC Operator;
  Return QC’d Sheets to Editors
• Download media off distributor hard drives and ingest media off tapes
• Occasionally create and post Ingest Sheet
• Receive media deliveries (shipments) & return as requested
• Create and distribute screener to the necessary departments
• Assist with archiving and media retrieval
• Assist Media Management Manager, as needed

• College diploma in Mass Communication/TV Broadcasting preferred
• 3 years experience in a broadcast network environment

• Strong proficiency with Adobe Premiere and Adobe Media Encoder
• Basic editing skills
• Knowledge of broadcast formats and aspect ratios
• Basic math skills, familiarity with timecode
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment and can also work independently and self-manage workload
• Ability to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management and other departments
• Can communicate technical issues in layman’s terms when liaising with non-technical colleagues
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-traffic, deadline driven environment
• Flexibility to work when required, weekends, holidays, after hours, if needed