Production Assistant, Originals, Peacock

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

The Production Assistant provides support to the Peacock Originals team. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Effectively communicate on-going workflow process with supervisor and other key personnel.
• Flag content, branding and technical concerns to supervisor and key production point people. Keep detailed track of all redeliveries and ongoing changes of deliverables by knowing all work orders and daily shiplists in great detail.
• Additional responsibilities as needed
• Facilitate video production by working with department coordinator to collect, organize and upload a high volume video assets and other source material for external creative vendors and various internal partners.
• Screen, log and sub-clip footage for Creative Directors, Writer/Producers and Preditors often under deadline.
• Keep track of all department activities and support the overall workflow by knowing in detail how department software applications function and helping others know how to use applications correctly.
• Run point with messenger services and FedEx to send and receive hard drives and other time-sensitive materials.
• Perform quality control of all final video deliveries to ensure execution is as intended by the creative producers, and that tags, branding, captions, spelling and messaging within creative is curate and on-brand, checking that file names and technical specification are correct.
• Along with Production Coordinator, maintain log of incoming and outgoing video assets and hard drives.

Qualifications

• Experience with digital delivery/video asset management a plus
• Must be willing to work some overtime and travel when necessary
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Minimum 1 year of creative, production or post production experience
• Working Knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook and ability to learn a variety of software apps; experience with the Adobe Suite (i.e.,Photoshop, Premiere) preferred

Desired Characteristics

• A demonstrated interest in supporting a large creative and operations team; self-starter, problem-solver and extremely motived to collaborate with creative and production team members
• Team-oriented and ready to work hard on any task with enthusiasm and an interest in the outcome.
• Has patience to trouble-shoot issues from the technical to the mundane with a constant eye on quality control.
• Can observe processes and make suggestions to improve them to make the team better
• Exhibits diplomacy and cooperation: is organized, responsible, accurate, and able to work well under deadline.
• Excellent written and verbal skills; has a positive outlook when problem solving and strong multi-tasking skills.
• Hard-working and committed to the high volume demands of post production
• Flexible, can track priorities in a fast changing environment, and adjust as needed
• Excellent communication skills â€'' able to articulate issues with an eye toward successful resolution.
• Strong sense of responsibility.
• Able to work as a team player with a flexible schedule.
• Able to track a high volume of loose ends and report issues to the appropriate parties; able to juggle multiple projects all with moving parts; works well under pressure

Salary range: $45,000 - $55,000

Additional Information

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