Scheduling Coordinator Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• A High School Diploma and relevant certification or Associate's Degree in Media or Communications, or equivalent professional experience in broadcast, digital, or post production role.
• A solid understanding of television production, broadcast operations, and/or news/sports/entertainment technical production requirements.
• 2+ years of professional experience working with traffic systems or any on-air scheduling system
• 2+ years experience working in a 24/7 broadcast operation
• Strong computer skills required, especially Microsoft Office products including, Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to learn new software programs
• Strong client service and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in fast-paced, high-pressure, team-oriented environment and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Must have unrestricted employment authorization to work in the United States.
• Must be at least 18 years old.
• Must be willing to work on-site in Stamford, CT

Nice To Haves

• Associates degree in related field or equivalent professional experience required

Responsibilities

• Maintains air ready schedules and program formats for play-out across the suite of NBCUniversal cable and broadcast properties, digital and linear, by way of NBCUniversal’s proprietary scheduling systems
• Coordinates the scheduling and reprocessing of quick turnaround primetime programming to ensure we provide a complete 24/7 continuous schedule across all networks and channels
• Performs traffic compares and any scheduling or formatting changes needed because of programming changes, traffic adjustments, or operational needs of the NOC
• Understands all technical programs required including but not limited to TLL, Webscheduler, OTTO, Wide Orbit, Sintec, and Streetlite
• Executes contingency scheduling for sports replays such as JIPs, filler programming, and sliding of schedules to bring networks back on time
• Validates webscheduler playlists for reliable resource and hardware assignments prior to play out
• Assists with troubleshooting as needed

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.