Project Manager, Television and Content Production

Forrest Johnson•Atlanta, GA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Project Manager serves as the operations manager for Leading The Way’s television and content department. The role ensures the Director has an up-to-date day-to-day schedule, priorities, and deliverable tracking, and collaborates with finance and IT to ensure projects receive appropriate support. The Project Manager coordinates schedules and deadlines across department and cross-functional teams, improves production and delivery processes, tracks project status and issues, and supports television, content, and online worship projects. The position also handles program quality control when time permits, quarterly APM reports, script and recording content management, editor and vendor coordination, contract and plugin renewals, Wistia video-count monitoring, and tracking requests from other departments and locations. The role is onsite and requires the employee to live within a reasonable commuting distance of LTW headquarters in the Metropolitan Atlanta area. Leading The Way is a Christian media ministry. Employees are expected to maintain a vibrant Christian faith, be members in good standing of a church whose doctrinal convictions do not conflict with LTW’s, subscribe to LTW’s Statement of Faith, and conduct themselves consistently with it.

Requirements

Mature Christian faith and an evident passion for Leading The Way’s ministry.
Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with notable experience handling multiple projects and tasks.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Willingness and ability to fill in for roles and responsibilities as assigned by the Director.
Demonstrated ability to influence other teams to meet goals.
Ability to collaborate with other teams to meet shared goals and willingness to work outside designated responsibilities and hours as needed.
Honesty, integrity, attention to detail, methodical project management, good organizational and teamwork skills, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Must live in the Metropolitan Atlanta area within a reasonable commuting distance of LTW headquarters.
Proficiency with project-management applications such as Basecamp, Slack, and Monday.com.
Employees must be members in good standing of a church whose doctrinal convictions and statement of faith do not conflict with LTW’s, subscribe to LTW’s Statement of Faith, avoid public statements that conflict with it, and conduct themselves consistently with it.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with visual, audio, and graphic-design production workflows and tools such as AVID, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and other production programs.
Experience with production management, creative agencies, or visual productions.

Responsibilities

Understand day-to-day department operations and set priority reviews with the Director.
Compile schedules and complete administrative tasks assigned by the Director.
Manage, track, and verify timely, high-quality deliverables.
Establish and advocate for an overall schedule aligned with cross-functional team requirements.
Lead the development of processes and tools to monitor and improve production and delivery efficiency, cadence, and program impact.
Regularly communicate project status to the Director and team members, analyze issues, and identify potential direction.
Identify and assign ownership of feature tasks to cross-functional team members and drive timely execution.
Ensure feature issues are tracked, managed, and communicated, with a clearly defined path to resolution.
Perform KSAT/INT and regular program quality control when time permits.
Produce quarterly APM reports and pass them to the Lead Program Editor.
Manage scripts and content for recordings with Dr. Michael Youssef and others.
Project-manage Weekly Worship Online, including delivery tracking and assistance with content scheduling.
Manage editor deadlines and work with the department Director to highlight areas requiring attention or production support.
Help organize, communicate with, and assist offsite and contract editors working on key television projects.
Manage the Wistia video count to help control departmental costs.
Work with the finance assistant to help renew key television contracts, plugins, and editor needs.
Use production plugins, including GFX and SFX plugins, to improve functionality.
Update the program editor when spots are complete and place them in their respective content folders in AVID Interplay.
Assist with and track external department requests, including requests from digital, Australia, and the UK, as well as podcasts, guest hosts with DMY, and outside vendors.