Employment Opportunity – Assistant Production Director
Positions Available : 1
Latest Deadline To Apply: May 31, 2010
Type of Position: Part Time Entry Level with potential of almost Full Time.
Compensation: Based on experience; Starting $7.25/hr
Description:
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. is seeking an entry level Assistant Production Director. The successful candidate must exhibit strong positive energy and work closely with a team that spans multiple radio stations.
The successful candidate must multitask and prioritize.
They will produce spots, follow daily task lists, complete detailed checklists, catch and fix problems, work closely with traffic, undertake some programming tasks, edit sound files, create sound files, manage and maintain various music and production libraries, effectively use various software to achieve goals in a timely manner. They will communicate regularly with management through reports.
After training, occasionally act as traffic manager assistant. Some board op duties will be required. During sport season, evening and weekend duties may increase significantly. After training, basic computer maintenance and troubleshooting tasks and staff computer training with network tools will also be carried out by successful candidate.
Programming daily and weekly scheduling logs and on-air machines will be expected after training. Verification of spots plays before and after play date will be required.
Will have to master scheduling, voice tracking, and sound editing software. Will schedule streaming and recording of shows, sports, and special events. Successful candidate will closely work with sports staff, software, sports programming, and sports details across all stations of Great Lakes Radio, effectively acting as a assistant to the Sports Director.
The successful candidate gets bottom results through intense work, attention to details, and ability to learn and apply new learning to various and changing tasks.
The successful candidate will solve problems and bring unresolved problems quickly to the attention of supervisors and management.
Duties:
Help do production, assist with program director duties, follow all rules and directives of management.
Basically, it is an entry-level catch all job where employee will do all labors required or requested by managment, including but not limited to daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly log reports, filing of reports, log verifies, setting and configuration checks, produce spots, rip cds, download and process spots, diagnose and fix errors, assist on special projects, run board, sit in on-air, subsitute when people are sick, update periodically changing spots/promotions, run errands for various persons in management, check computer settings, clean work areas, provide voice and other talents on advertising spots, work evenings and and weekends when requested, be available most times of days as needed for miscellaneous duties.
Additionally, there may be regular shift or times to assist with the frontdesk/reception area/shopping show sales to public.
Requirements:
Ability to many tasks at once and get good results in a fast paced work environment.
Technical skills with sound files and editing a big positive. Knowledge of Adobe Audition, Audacity a very strong desired skill. Creative attention to serving commercial clients is a must.
Ability to help sales and marketing staff to turn scripts or script ideas or in-field needs analysis from average presentation to excellent results is a must. Helping team to serve client needs is highest priority.
Excellent work ethic a must. Good attitude a must.
Ability to work flexible hours a must. Ability to cover on-air shifts, including Voice Tracked shift from time-to-time.
Good Production voice and experience highly desirable, but ability to become excellent a must! Communication abilities a must.
Additional Requirements
Comfort and confidence in completing details while adhering to company policies designed to satisfy clients and community with timely, professional, and creative results.
Proficiency with basic computer skills including but not limited to: typing, e-mail and webmail, phone, fax machine, Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org (Great Lakes Radio, Inc. uses open-source Office clone). Ability to learn new tools with ease and effectively use such tools. After training, candidate will be expected to post to websites, manage online audio archives, write public announcements and post them to any of more than a dozen websites is a must as well.
Ability to listen and accurately communicate, file required reports and keep all station operations legal.
Ability to be trained quickly and learn to creatively apply learning to the needs of company a must, including but not limited to producing on-air commercial spots, promotional materials, and assist with event management and/or on-air tasks, and other tasks as requested management.
How To Apply
Resumes, cover letters, salary requirements, schedule and so on may be sent to:
Network Offices
Great Lakes Radio, Inc.
3060 U.S. 41 West
Marquette, MI 49855
Fax: (906)-228-8128
Contact: employment@greatlakesradio.org with Cc: to employment@broadcasteverywhere.com
Great Lakes Radio, Inc. and WQXO Am 1400 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minorities to apply.
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