Position Description

Duties may include planning and coordinating technical production work involved in live, film, and videotape media. May assist faculty and staff in integrating educational plans into effective television teaching programs. May supervise other personnel.

About the Department and/or College

Educating. Innovating. Inspiring. Public Media for El Paso, Lubbock, and San Angelo.

Major/Essential Functions

Guides all projects through the production press to meet or exceed deadlines, budget, quality expectation, and distribution requirements.
Select and research topics; contact and interview sources, maintain notes and video recordings, write, and edit reports, produce and shoot video reports for air and digital distribution.
Develop content ideas with CCO and oversee the execution of projects of producers.
Oversees the production of multi-platform stories. Reports stories in appropriate forms of broadcast (live on-air, copy, actuality, cut & copy, voicer, wrap, feature, series, documentary, studio, etc.).

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in directly related field plus one year experience in a video/multimedia environment; OR a combination of education and/or experience to equal 5 years.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques/methods, including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
Understand video pre-production, production, post-production, DSLR and video camera shooting, current media trends and current methods of production of storytelling.

Occasional Duties

Attends meetings and is responsible for appropriate record-keeping, correspondence, phone calls and supplies and equipment. Proactively participates n the creative cycle of story and program origination with CCO and other producers.
May be asked to participate in station membership campaigns and community-building events.