The successful candidate will be a creative, collaborative producer and interviewer who can successfully work across NPR departments and programs to generate great content while embracing and expanding NPR’s storytelling aesthetic. We are looking for someone that can bring fresh ideas to the world of production. This position is an opportunity to expand the reach of public media.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Produces audio creative for NPR stations and platforms
- Creates daily, weekly and branding promos for major NPR programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
- Leads development of news responsive promos during active news cycles
- Records audio at NPR and on location as needed
- May serve as host/interviewer in the audio creative
- Edits audio into format suitable for NPR stations and digital platforms
- Manages promo production process with NPR programs
- Actively manages relationship with show EP’s and hosts
- Creates production timelines, as well as technical and creative standards.
- Coordinates scheduling and studio booking
- Facilitates creative reviews
- Works with colleagues in News and Programming to coordinate scheduling and deadlines
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
Skills/Experience:
- At least three years of audio production experience on broadcast digital audio workstations (i.e. MTE/DAVID, Dalet, ProTools or similar)
- At least five years of experience writing and producing creative material
- At least five years of experience working with daily deadlines
- At least three years of copywriting experience
- Immersed in daily news cycle and daily show production
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Strong connection to and affinity for a fast moving daily news cycle
- Ability to work with internal and external collaborators in a way that is constructive and provides a positive station focused/customer experience
- Demonstrated ability to assimilate and organize large amounts of information
- Ability and willingness to work varied shifts
- Proven ability to consistently work well with others
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Experience in promotion, fundraising, or advertising
- Strong sense of shaping big ideas and narrative arcs under daily deadline pressure
- Experience with producing multi-track sonic sequences and editing long-form and short-form interview feature segments
- Experience producing in and operating digital audio self-op facilities
- Deep knowledge of music
- Project management experience preferredNPR offers a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness benefits, retirement, and work/life balance programs, as well as opportunities for career growth and development.
Compensation/Benefits:
NPR offers a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness benefits, retirement, and work/life balance programs, as well as opportunities for career growth and development.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Mar 6 2018
Active Until:
Apr 6 2018
Hiring Organization:
National Public Radio, Inc.
industry:
Nonprofit