Key Responsibilities:
1. Scheduling & Timecard Management
- Verify submitted timecards against weekly schedules.
- Create and approve any missing or pending timecards.
- Distribute OT breakdowns to designated team members.
2. Weekly Staff Scheduling
- Maintain and update weekly schedules in Microsoft Teams.
- Incorporate PTO and calendar events.
- Post schedules to shared locations and notify staff.
3. Graphics & Content Creation
- Design Network Sports full screens and Sports Friday boards in Photoshop.
- Maintain team and game graphics for football broadcasts using Adobe, Xpression, and After Effects.
- Export, test, and upload graphics and packages to Mira and other systems.
4. Video Production
- Use Adobe Premiere for creating billboard spots, game promos, and pregame segments.
- Export media using Ross Replay settings and alpha channels as needed.
- Organize video content for control room playback and dashboard integration.
5. Control Room and Production Trailer Operations
- Reboot and update all control room equipment weekly.
- Test Xpressions, FSIO, and custom controls.
- Troubleshoot technical issues and coordinate with Ross tech support when needed.
6. Director Training
- Onboard and train new directors using WTOV documentation.
- Supervise initial punching, scheduling, and transition to full directing.
- Provide continuous training and development.
7. Special Programming
- Direct 30-minute weeknight sports program
- Build rundowns in iNews for special shows.
- Coordinate with producers, editors, and graphic designers to finalize content.
- Export and segment shows for air, ensuring captioning and formatting compliance
Skills Required
- Manage staff scheduling and timecard verification, approval, and OT distribution
- Maintain and post weekly staff schedules in Microsoft Teams including PTO and calendar events
- Design and maintain sports graphics using Adobe Photoshop, Xpression, and Adobe After Effects
- Edit and produce video promos, billboards, and segments using Adobe Premiere Pro and export with Ross Replay settings
- Export, test, and upload graphics and packages to Mira and other broadcast systems
- Perform control room and production trailer equipment maintenance, weekly reboots, updates, and testing (Xpression, FSIO, custom controls)
- Troubleshoot technical issues and coordinate with Ross tech support or equivalent vendors
- Onboard, train, and supervise new directors through initial stages to full directing responsibilities
- Build rundowns in iNews, coordinate with producers/editors/graphics, and ensure captioning and formatting compliance for air
What We Do
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the country. Sinclair owns and operates, programs or provides sales services to more television stations than anyone and has affiliations with all the major networks. In addition, Sinclair is the leading local news provider in the country, as well as a producer of sports content. Sinclair owns a multicast network, four radio stations and a cable network. Sinclair’s broadcast content is delivered via multiple-platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program distributors, and digital platforms. Sinclair, either directly or through its venture subsidiaries, makes equity investments in strategic companies. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. was founded in 1986, went public in 1995 and is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol SBGI. Throughout our history, Sinclair Broadcast Group has been at the forefront of industry-changing events and technological advances. Our vision and first-to-market mentality drives our ‘next generation’ thinking; stimulating conversations, innovating through our expertise, and advocating for the development of technology and evolving business models. As a leading over-the-air broadcast television company, our primary business is to engage consumers on multiple platforms with relevant and compelling news, entertainment and sports content, and to provide advertisers and business efficient means and value to connect with our mass audiences. We recognize the vital role broadcast television plays in branding and local content delivery, and therefore strive to constantly be at the forefront of leading edge technology and structures to advance the industry.
