To Apply: To ensure consideration, please use the following link to submit your application. 

NYU-TV seeks a media technician to join New York University's in-house video production department situated in the Division of Libraries.    At NYU-TV, we capture, create, and distribute exciting content through comprehensive, professional video production and post-production services.  Our mission is to inform, educate and entertain the global NYU community and beyond. 

With over 150+ live events and video projects per year, this is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in an ever-changing production environment.  We're looking for someone who is enthusiastic about joining a highly collaborative team, excited about new technologies, and who seeks the rewarding experience of working in an academic environment with staff, faculty, and students.  The ideal candidate has a wide variety of video production experience as a videographer and editor for live and original content production along with an understanding of digital workflow and media management for field, studio, and post-production.  Additionally, this role entails using a digital asset management system and working with live webcast, and video-on-demand platforms.

This is a full-time position with benefits. Shift hours are subject to change as determined by the production schedule.

Productions are held at the NYU Television Center and a variety of other spaces on NYU campuses.  The candidate needs to be able to lift up to 30lbs and transport gear via carts to various venues.

POSITION SUMMARY/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical support for NYU-TV and the TV Center’s activities, within guidelines: open and close facility; determine and set up studio configurations; power, set up, and operate studio and field equipment; 
• Ensure equipment availability; 
• Oversee use and operation of facilities and equipment; 
• Train, and assign/review work of student and casual employees. 
• Provide technical support and assistance to staff, students, and clients in the field, studio, and TV Center facilities. 
• Train users in technical procedures and operations, including editing, NYU-TV video-on-demand streaming platforms, post-production, graphics and animation work, and media technology, including software and post-production servers to manage media. Recommend capital equipment purchases and perform system analysis and design; research, evaluate, test, install, and operate equipment.
• Maintain inventory and order supplies and equipment.

Qualifications

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• Expertise in both network hardware and software to serve as a resource to junior technical support staff on the majority of standard procedures and some non-recurring problems and non-standard situations. Knowledge of live video event production, and of Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Motion, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Motion, DVD Studio Pro, audio software (such as izotrope, Pro-tools, Adobe Audition) Pro-tools, digital media file management organization, live webcasting and Streaming media formats and codecs, operation of video cameras (such as ENG, DSLR, studio cameras). Expertise in both network hardware and software to serve as a resource to junior technical support staff on the majority of standard procedures and some non-recurring problems and non-standard situations.

Preferred Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• Internet applications, podcasting, Streaming, and media recording codecs (h.264, Quicktime). PTZ/robotic, EFP and ENG, DSLR Production and post-production workflows, and broadcast streaming operations. Event/stage and studio lighting.

Additional Information

In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the hourly rate for this position is USD $33.72. This rate is based on bargaining unit contracts. This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items.

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Library facilities at New York University serve the school's 40,000 students and faculty and contain more than 5 million volumes. New York University Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the HathiTrust, the Research Libraries Group Partnership of OCLC, and the Digital Library Federation, as well as regional resource sharing consortia. 

To Apply: To ensure consideration, please use the following link to submit your application. 

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