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. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced, and heard. We believe that our workforce should represent the communities we live in, so that together, we can continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world. Click here to learn more about Comcast NBCUniversal's commitment and how we are making an impact.
Job Description
You'll be at the core of NBC News's international operation, working alongside the Senior Desk Editor in coordinating and supporting teams in the field and in the newsroom as they produce content for our key platforms, including TODAY, Nightly News, MSNBC and NBC News Digital. We'll look to you to draw on your experience of working on assignment desks and be resourceful in juggling various tasks, including organizing lives and pre-tapes, managing requests, setting up interviews, deploying personnel and booking travel -- all while keeping the company and field teams up to date with the latest developing news stories and video. You'll ideally be familiar with video transmissions from the field and will be comfortable editing short video clips to send to field teams or across the network. We'll also expect you to use social media and research tools to quickly pick up on interesting stories and be first in our coverage. You will have excellent communication skills and be able to persuade people both inside and outside the organization on tight deadlines and during difficult and stressful periods. You'll need to be meticulous and have excellent attention-to-detail to keep across all the work that goes on for the International Desk on a daily basis.
Key Responsibilities
Main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Coordinating resources and communicating with the senior desk editor, field teams, show producers & editing producers, content platforms & platform editors
- Working with the live request coordinator to assign and manage live requests for various NBC News platforms & partners
- Coordinating with SatOps, MCR and field teams on live shots
- Updating the network, editors and field teams with breaking news updates & compelling video
- Compiling accurate staffing logs, editorial updates & output records
- Handling and booking live transmissions or tape windows with third party vendors
- Deploying teams on short notice to travel abroad & booking travel
- Assisting field teams with risk assessments & managers in ensuring safety protocols
- Working with the senior desk editor or individually to identify and pitch key stories & editorial themes
- Verifying stories by contacting local sources, government officials, companies, or related individuals
- Working with NBC News's partners & affiliates to request video, editorial information, or assistance
- Finding & transmitting key video from agencies, archives or elsewhere for news stories across the network
- Supporting the edit room or field edits
Qualifications
Skills and Experience
- Experience working on the news desk of a leading international TV news organization, ideally with a US outlet
- Capacity to work in a fast-paced and demanding live news environment
- Strong news judgment, knowledge of current events & familiarity with previous key news stories
- Strong attention to detail & accuracy
- Ability to multi-task
- Excellent communication skills & professional conduct, especially in high-pressure & stressful situations
- Experience with managing & booking satellite operations, preferred
- Strong understanding of the role of social media in news broadcasting and multi-platform delivery
- Experience with iNews & Avid preferred
- Experience of using video agencies, preferred
- Understanding of video and photo licensing, legal principles, and rights of usage, preferred
- Familiarity with NBC News output and editorial standards
Requirements
- University degree or equivalent experience
- Eligible to work in the UK
- Must be able to work flexible hours, including overnights
- High standard of written English
- Polite phone manner and good communication skills
- Strong teamwork ethic
- Additional languages preferred
Additional Information
NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants
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What We Do
From film, television, news, theme parks, interactive media, and streaming, our people are at the center of it all. Here, we solve complex and business-critical problems. That’s why we’re looking for people to help us continue our evolution, imagining and delivering the most innovative and disruptive products and services through the latest tech advancements in the industry.
Here you can develop solutions. You’ll develop solutions that allow engineers to broadcast live TV from the comfort of their homes. These solutions will enable the use of our collection of hundreds of thousands of distinct intellectual properties across our film, television and streaming brands.
Here you can transform. You’ll make decisions and solve complex problems by leveraging insights that come from data, building AI to help enable solutions to optimize every aspect of our content eco-system.
Here you can build. You’ll build emerging immersive technologies that are used to power the broadcasts and streaming of global events like the Super Bowl and Olympics. You can create secure, elastic cloud-based services connecting parts of our global platform ecosystem that effect tens of millions of viewers, consumers and businesses that consume and love NBCUniversal’s content. And while you design, build and architect your career, we have the culture to make sure you’re supported.
Here you can work and still live your best life!
We’re leaders in our fields. We hire smart people and trust them to get the job done. We are never too busy to develop a fellow colleague. We understand our goals – or we ask. When we see something that needs doing – we do it. We make data-driven decisions. We fiercely believe in our talent and their growth. If you're ready to make an impact, here you can.
Why Work With Us
For us, it's more than just a work life. It's a daily passion. We take great pride in our legacy. We find fun in the challenge. We collaborate and inspire others. We're always creating, always solving and always ahead of competition.
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