Position Summary:
As the Bookings Coordinator you will work within Network Origination Services and be responsible for coordinating the resourcing and distribution of facilities for over 10,000 live events each year including major Tennis tournaments and the Olympic games. The ideal candidate would be passionate about sport & live broadcast, with previous experience of working in a similarly demanding operational environment. Our work is essential in ensuring that our global 24/7 MCR, Production & TX team/s have every small element required to successfully broadcast every second of Live sporting content to all our consumers.
You will become an integral part of the Bookings Team, scheduling events, feeds, technical resources, personnel, and facilities.
Providing day to day bookings and administrative support as well as contributing to the management of all the resources inside the broadcast facility.
As part of the role, you will work in specific areas and may have additional responsibilities such as liaising with internal / external departments to book the correct equipment for each live feed.
Key Responsibilities:
1. You will be responsible for booking live events, feeds and facilities using Xytech’s MediaPulse
2. You will source Satellite details and return feeds
3. Liaise Ingest to make sure all events and feeds are correctly recorded.
4. Communicate with MCR to make sure they have all the information they need for broadcast.
5. You will coordinate resources and distribute information to ensure that our broadcast services run smoothly.
6. You will be active in identifying pinch points in equipment across busy periods.
7. You will follow a tight workflow and be proactive in resolving any issues and chase up any missing information
8. Provide general administrative support as required
Desirable:
1. Production technical knowledge
2. Sports knowledge or an interest in sports
3. Previous production coordinator or broadcast bookings experience
4. Experience in sport production
5. Previous experience of live programming
6. Knowledge of satellite bookings and distribution
7. Previous experience of Media Pulse, or a similar resource scheduling system
8. Provys, Xytech ScheduALL) is highly desirable
Skills needed:
1. You must have strong organisational skills and excellent attention to detail.
2. Ability to multi-task
3. Excellent communication skills
4. Consumer focused
5. Good team player
6. You must be able to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
7. Must be able to work well as an individual
8. The ability to pick up new systems quickly
The role will require working on a shift basis which will include weekends, evenings and public holidays.