PEP, Archivist

Company Description

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!,

SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golf Now and Golf Pass.

Versant is seeking a PEP Archivist to support the Archive team in researching, maintaining, archiving, restoring, and making media content available for teams across the Versant media landscape. This freelance role serves a broad range of internal and external clients, including show units, promotions and marketing, specials, long-form programming, digital teams, and Archive Sales operations.

This is an onsite role based in New Jersey and requires flexibility to support early mornings, nights, overnights, weekends, holidays, and short-notice breaking news requests. This role is overtime-eligible.

• Manage daily archival research requests for shows and teams across the Versant News landscape.
• Research, screen, log, tag, and make available video content for show units, promotions and marketing, specials, long-form programming, digital teams, and other internal or external clients.
• Fulfill external client requests in support of Archive Sales operations.
• Make archival retention decisions for incoming content and add essential metadata, visual shot lists, transcripts, restrictions, and other required information.
• Partner with Producers and Rights & Clearances to support proper footage use in accordance with Versant Media’s Standards & Practices.
• Coordinate digitization, retrieval, return shipment, storage, and technical support needs for physical and digital media assets, including work with external storage and internal support or engineering teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, liberal arts, or a related field preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of current and historical general and business news, including local and international events, world leaders, and places in the news.
• Strong computer research skills, including experience searching and entering information in database applications.
• Familiarity with media asset management systems and non-linear editing platforms.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and deliver accurate, high-quality work in a tight deadline environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills, clear communication, and a customer‑focused approach.
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently as business needs require.
• Flexibility to work early mornings, nights, overnights, weekends, holidays, and short-notice breaking news coverage as requested.

Bonus points for 3+ years of experience in an archival or library setting, experience logging and researching archival material, or knowledge of AVID Media Composer, Interplay, Media Central Cloud UX, Stratus, and iNews.

You’ll be part of a fast‑paced media environment where research, journalism, technology, and preservation come together every day. This freelance PEP role offers the opportunity to support high‑impact news, business, entertainment, sports, digital, promotional, and long‑form content needs while helping teams access and use Versant’s media assets responsibly.

This role is based onsite in New Jersey and requires flexibility to support business needs, including early mornings, nights, weekends, holidays, and short-notice breaking news coverage.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in‑person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender,…