National Public Media is hiring a Production Coordinator to support NPM’s in-house custom sponsorship team, NPM Creative. The Production Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating the delivery of all custom creative executions to our clients, managing our custom metrics reports, and coordinating across NPM’s various support teams.
NPM Creative is responsible for both building and maintaining NPR’s digital sponsorship product offerings, and creating custom creative executions for corporate sponsorship clients. This team manages multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously and we need a Production Coordinator who can help us manage communications, assets, and resources.
- Coordinating the details of our custom creative executions. This includes keeping track of all deadlines and deliverables, and ensuring that the design team has all necessary assets and client feedback
- Aiding our Ad Operations team in the launch of custom creative campaigns on our various digital platforms, according to campaign requirements for deployment and tracking implementation.
- Ensuring that digital activations for Events campaigns are delivered on time and according to necessary specifications. This includes sponsorship video assets, custom sponsorship placements across various event-related NPR digital properties, and social media tagging for sponsors.
- Assisting our audio producer with editing tasks, including transcribing audio, pulling compelling audio cuts, and creating custom-captioned videos using our social audio tool.
- Managing our metrics reports. Custom campaign performance indicators need to be sent to clients and internal teams regularly. You’ll make sure metrics spreadsheets are accurate and updated in a timely fashion.
- Facilitating communication with clients to ensure that they understand expectations for asset delivery and production schedules before the campaign begins, and creating decks to walk clients through campaign success metrics upon completion.
- Assisting with quality assurance testing. You will help coordinate and participate in testing our products and reporting bugs.
- Examining the team’s work performance to to show how the team spends time on different projects and alerting the Project Manager if we aren’t meeting workload efficiency goals.
- Compiling and disseminating resources for intra-departmental communications. When team members need information or assets, we’ll look to you to know where resources live, and help to collect and distribute them.
- Assisting with scheduling meetings and documentation requirements as determined by the Project Manager and Product Owner.
The type of person we are looking for is:
- Extremely organized. A person who loves nothing more than checking things off their list, gets excited about things like color-coding, and makes packing spreadsheets for vacations.
- An expert task-juggler, able to keep multiple complex, concurrent projects in the air without dropping the revenue ball.
- Able to stay positive and focused in a world of constant potential distractions, and able to be patient with those of us with short attention spans.
- Kind and respectful to others, but not afraid to voice their opinion.