Multimedia Production Supervisor

Under general direction, will perform complex, technical and professional level duties; will develop, organize and coordinate the daily operation of the City's Cable Television production facilities, including pre-production, production, and dissemination of all programming. Provides functional supervision over the production staff.

The incumbent must have the ability to:

• Participates in the production of government access programming and other city broadcast events. Participates in the production of weekly broadcast and videotaping of city meetings and special events.
• Prepares scripts, shot sheets and storyboards for production project concepts
• Establishes project production schedules; assists with staff training and certifications; provides quality control on all video projects; coordinates the direction and work of crew assigned to video projects.
• Plans and organizes video projects in pre-production phase to ensure final project meets conceptual goals; operates all related video production equipment; assists in locally originated program planning.
• Will be responsible for assessing community needs, and developing and marketing programs as needed.
• Plans, organizes video productions, including script writing, and directing of scripted and unscripted program; performs editing and quality control
• Interface with City departments and community organizations to develop production concepts.
• Oversees the tape blocking duplication and playback; coordinates and conducts public access training and production; maximizes use of available production and post production equipment.
• Writes clear and concise reports and correspondence; assists with budget preparation; maintains records and files
• Oversee the training and work scheduling of staff and interns.
• Oversees the production of selected in-house training videos.
• Edits and dubs videotapes.
• Writes and edits scripts utilized in the production of city broadcast videos.
• Operates camcorder, remote pan and tilt cameras.
• Operates and maintains city's production facilities and equipment.
• Provides courteous and expeditious customer service to the City department, staff and general public
• Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Establish and maintain cooperative-working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Perform any other tasks or functions deemed necessary to the daily operations of the employer.

A combination of experience and training that would provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. The employee must have the knowledge of:

• Technical requirements of operating a cable access station.
• Basic operations, services and activities of a cable access program.
• Principles and practices of program development and implementation.
• Recent developments, current Federal and State laws, and local codes relating to cable access television.
• Television and video equipment and production techniques for directing, editing, camera, audio, and graphics.
• Principles of marketing.
• Principles and procedures of record keeping and reporting
• Modern office organization and equipment and the use of a computer and related software applications.

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