Sports Mmj/Anchor - Kosa

Gray Media • Odessa, TX

11d

About The Position

First Alert 7 / KOSA-TV: the #1 station in Odessa-Midland, TX, is looking for a SPORTS ANCHOR / MMJ to join our team. She/He will be responsible for producing and anchoring LOCAL sportscasts at 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm, as well as shooting, writing, and editing local sports stories. This is the home of the legendary “Friday Night Lights,” so we’re looking for someone who has a passion for high school sports. During football season, we throw everything we’ve got at covering local high school games on Friday nights. Then it’s off to Lubbock on Saturdays for Texas Tech football. This person is also expected to be able to do compelling live shots, post stories online and on social media, and enterprise story ideas that viewers can only see on our stations, digital, and social media platforms.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of local high school, regional college, and national professional sports.
• Must be willing to submit to a background and MVR check
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Ability and willingness to work overtime and weekends with short notice
• Must be available to work all shifts, including early mornings, evenings, holidays, weekends, late-breaking news, and weather emergencies
• Multitask, react, solve problems, and obtain results under the pressures of television production and multiplatform deadlines.
• Interact with a variety of individuals, including management, employees, and outside vendors/customers
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Act independently
• Display flexibility, creativity, and develop innovative solutions
• Be a team player

Nice To Haves

• Experience with non-linear editing a plus

Responsibilities

• Ability to write conversationally and quickly
• An outstanding can-do attitude, willing to listen, learn new skills, and execute
• Have a sense of urgency that causes you to work quickly and efficiently but with an eye toward details and accuracy.
• An open mind to cross-training and being a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ in the newsroom

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed