PEP, Archivist

Versant•Englewood Cliffs, NJ

16h•Onsite

About The Position

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. The Archivist/Researcher helps ensure VERSANT’s media assets are discoverable, accurate, rights-aware, and available when teams need them. This role supports daily coverage, breaking news, historical research, editorial planning, and long-term preservation of valuable media content. 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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

3+ years of experience in an archival or library setting
Experience logging and researching archival material
Knowledge of AVID Media Composer, Interplay, Media Central Cloud UX, Stratus, and iNews

Responsibilities

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.