Seasonal Quality Control Specialist (REHIRES)

Summary

Seeking a video Quality Control Specialist for a 7-month seasonal position at NFL Films a world-class professional sports media company and producer of Emmy Award-winning series such as HBO NFL Hard Knocks NFL Films Presents and Inside the NFL. The Specialist will be a member of a small team responsible for reviewing video and audio programming for technical and content accuracy. They will review our finished spots shows and media completely and thoroughly before clearing for delivery to production managers external broadcast and media partners and clients and to communicate issues and findings.

Essential Functions

• The Specialist is primarily responsible for receiving and watching finished shows and media and recognizing mistakes spelling errors technical issues and content problems while working in person at our 200000 square-foot facility and studios in Mt. Laurel NJ.
• The Specialist will be required to recognize technical file-based media issues such as incorrect audio channel mixing interlacing and pulldown errors and compression errors.
• They will report back to video editors audio mixers project managers schedulers and producers conveying the QC results of each show.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelors level degree or equivalent professional experience in media and communications fields.
• Proficient with video software and computer playback of media.
• Proficient with handling very large media files through enterprise-level storage systems. Able to efficiently navigate through very large file storage volumes across multiple operating systems and software applications.

Preferred Education and Experience

• An appreciation for the game and a familiarity of the sport its players and personalities and current events around the NFL is very much preferred.
• Experience with enterprise level video quality control software and reporting such as Telestream Vidchecker Baton or Pulsar is helpful but not required.
• An understanding or experience with editing and post-production environments workflows and processes is helpful.
• Experience with closed captions metadata and ancillary media streams is helpful.

Other Key Attributes / Characteristics

• The candidate should be very detail-oriented -- they will be analyzing final media files for misspellings inaccuracies and basic technical specifications before passing to the delivery teams.
• They should be able to work both collaboratively within our department and within our greater organization and should be able to work independently and unsupervised.
• The candidate should be comfortable communicating by email telephone and in person. They will need to be flexible and agile while prioritizing and executing several unique projects daily.
• At the NFL we believe leadership is everybodys responsibility and is demonstrated when we (1) know our business (2) inspire (3) think big (4) build talent (5) execute and (6) live our values. Our values are respect integrity responsibility to the team and resiliency.

Supervisory Responsibility

No supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Demands

There are no physical demands. You will be working in a shared office environment.

Travel

No traveling required.

Salary / Pay Range

This job posting contains a pay range which represents the range of salaries or hourly rates that the NFL believes in good faith at the time of this posting that it might be willing to pay for the posted job. The NFL expects to hire for this position near the middle of the range. Only in truly rare and exceptional circumstances where an external candidate has experience credentials or expertise that far exceed those required or expected for the position would the NFL consider paying a salary or rate near the higher end of the range.

Terms / Expected Hours of Work

The NFL is committed to building a diverse equitable and inclusive work environment that reflects our incredibly diverse fan base. We provide an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants without regard to status as protected by applicable federal state or local law.