Video Production Specialist (Austin Communications and Engagement ATXN)

City of Austin • Austin, TX

1d • $28 - $34 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Video Production Specialist serves as a creative producer on ATXN’s award-winning media team. This role produces multimedia content by generating story ideas, conducting interviews, writing scripts, recording and editing video, and publishing finished pieces. Collaboration with producers, engineers, IT staff, and city departments is essential to create impactful content for training, communications, education, social media, and public information.

Requirements

• Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
• Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods, including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
• Knowledge of applicable processes, techniques, and methods.
• Knowledge of City practice, policy, and procedures.
• Skill in handling multiple tasks and prioritizing.
• Skill in working with Engineering News-Gathering (ENG) cameras.
• Skill in using computers and related software applications.
• Skill in controlling operations of equipment or systems.
• Skill in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Ability to work with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities.
• Ability to use non-linear editing systems.
• Ability to train others.
• Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
• Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Radio-TV-Film (RTVF), Electrical Engineering, and Telecommunications or in a field related to the job.
• Experience may substitute for education up to four (4) years.
• Valid Texas Class C Driver License.
• External New Hires must meet the City of Austin's Driver Record Evaluation (DRE) Requisite to be considered for a driving position, applicants cannot have more than three moving violations or a total of six Driver Record Evaluation points within a period of thirty-six (36) months.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience as a producer or in a TV studio environment
• Experience with using video cameras and other TV equipment
• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite and the ability to design graphics and visual effects
• Part 107 drone operation license, or the ability obtain one within six months of hire
• Bilingual (Spanish)

Responsibilities

• Confers with clients to determine program needs, identify production options, assist with script development, and determine overall program content.
• Conceptualizes, designs, and coordinates the production of video and audio programs to be used in training and staff development, public information and education presentations, promotional programs, and internal and external informational productions.
• Sets up, hauls, loads and unloads equipment; operates cameras, lighting equipment, teleprompters, microphones, and other audio equipment; and monitors and adjusts equipment during taping sessions.
• Shoots and edits video, selects music, designs digital video effects, and creates graphics in order to create a finished product using editing systems and equipment.
• Writes, either individually or as a member of a team, and edits scripts for video and audio productions.
• Duplicates and distributes video and audio programs on various media formats to department employees, the general public, the media, and other stakeholders.
• Maintains a video production library by cataloging productions into electronic format.
• Creates graphics for use in video production projects and for video bulletin board.
• Creates and maintains playback scheduling.
• May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, and guidance to others.

Benefits

• low-cost medical, dental, vision
• paid leave time
• a highly competitive retirement plan
• training opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level