Part Time Temp. Meteorologist
Part Time Temp. Meteorologist
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About TEGNA
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) serves local communities across the U.S. through trustworthy journalism engaging content and tools that help people navigate their daily lives. Through customized marketing solutions we help businesses grow and thrive. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets TEGNA reaches approximately 100 million people every month across the web mobile apps streaming and linear television. For more information .
WZZM 13 On Your Side in Grand Rapids Meteorologist is looking for a PartTime Temporary Meteorologist/MultiSkilled Journalist to join our Weather Impact Team for the Summer. The successful candidate will forecast weather for our weekend morning newscast and fillin other dayparts as necessary. You must have a passion for meteorology and the ability to explain weather patterns and how they impact the lives of our viewers. The successful candidate will have strong communication skills and understand the importance of owning the big weather story every single day. You must be willing and able to successfully engage with audiences on all platforms. Your goal is to create an experience for your audience on air and online. Solid severe weather experience is a must. Must be able to cover breaking news severe weather inconvenient weather weather/climaterelated stories and daily news coverage as needed.
Responsibilities:
Provide accurate and compelling weather forecasts on multiple platforms
Produce clean creative and informative graphics to tell the weather story
Prepare and deliver severe weather updates interrupting regular programming and streaming platforms as necessary
Update website and engage with viewers on social media platforms daily
Develop unique daily weather story ideas from climate change to relevant weather explainers
Write edit and report on weather breaking news and daily news content from the field or inside the newsroom
Collaborate with the weather team to produce special reports and seasonal outlooks
Perform other tasks as required by the news director & chief meteorologist
Requirements:
BA/BS degree in Meteorology with some experience as an MSJ
At least one year of professional meteorology and content production experience preferred.
Experience with shooting video and video editing.
Be proficient at posting content to various websites and social media; computer literacy required including weather and newsroom computer systems.
Demonstrated ability to engage audience with headlines and social media posts.
Strong understanding of AP style including ability to rapidly edit and/or rewrite stories.
Highly motivated individual with creative and aggressive approach to driving digital and broadcast results.
Ability to work independently and multitask confidently under tight deadlines.
Ability to work a flexible schedule including night weekend and holiday shifts.
Benefits:
TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and parttime employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
Our 401(k) program offers full parttime and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% 80% of their pay on a pretax basis to TEGNAs 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.
Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctors appointments with a physician through Teladoc and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.
* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.
EEO statement:
TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We areproud to be an equal opportunity employer hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race color religion national origin sex gender age marital status personal appearance sexual orientation gender identity or expression family responsibilities disability medical condition enrollment in college or vocational school political affiliation military or veteran status citizenship status genetic information or any other basis protected by federal state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilitiesin accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application please email
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To all candidates: your personal information and online safety are important to us. Only TEGNA Recruiters or Hiring Managers will reach out to you regarding consideration of your application or background. Communications with TEGNA employees will either come from a TEGNA email address with a domain of or one of our affiliate station domains.
Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers.
Employment Type
Part-Time
