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Production Assistant
NBC Universal
New York, NY, United States
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About Us
NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBCUniversal’s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Responsibilities
Role Purpose: As a Production Assistant, you will work directly with producers, senior producers and executive producer to assist in production of live news. The work schedule for this position will be Wednesday through Sunday.
Job Duties:
Order and coordinate all graphic elements for air
Oversee the airing of all graphic elements in control room during live program
Work closely with producers to research, select, and locate required footage for broadcast
Print scripts for anchors and build scrolling crawl daily and maintain with continual updates and breaking news
Assist in compiling research for anchors, maintaining on air updates during live program
Gather information on breaking stories for anchors to relay on air
Qualifications/Requirements
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college
At least one year of news production experience
Additional Job Requirements:
Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered
Must be willing to work in New York, NY
Willingness to travel and work overtime, and on weekends with short notice
Must be willing to submit to a background investigation.
Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.
Desired Characteristics
Desired Qualifications:
Excellent knowledge of politics, history and current events
Must have the ability to work under deadline pressure
Knowledge of Avid/Interplay and iNews preferred