Booking Coordinator - Live Broadcast

Full Job Description

Freelance Booking Coordinator

Warner Bros. Discovery

West London based

£30ph (Inside IR35)

Training - 5 shifts a week for the first month

Estimate of 2-4 shifts per week running up to the Olympics

The role will require working on a shift basis which will include weekends, evenings and public holidays. Also across the Paris 2024 Olympics shifts will include Overnights.

Position Summary:

As a Technical 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 2024 Paris 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for booking live events, feeds and facilities using Xytech’s MediaPulse
• You will source Satellite details and return feeds.
• You will be booking with Third parties for feed sourcing and distribution
• Liaise Ingest to make sure all events and feeds are correctly recorded.
• Communicate with MCR to make sure they have all the information they need for broadcast.
• You will coordinate resources and distribute information to ensure that our broadcast services run smoothly.
• You will be active in identifying pinch points in equipment across busy periods.
• You will follow a tight workflow and be proactive in resolving any issues and chase up any missing information.
• Provide general administrative support as required

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Production set up including, Galleries, Studios and OB’s
• Previous broadcast or Technical bookings experience
• Experience in sport specific production
• Experience in dealing with Third Party distributors.
• Previous experience of live programming
• Knowledge of satellite bookings and distribution including BT Tower.
• Previous experience of Media Pulse, or a similar resource scheduling system

(eg Xytech Schedule ALL, Provys) is highly desirable

• Sports knowledge or an interest in sports

Skills needed:

• You must have strong organisational skills and excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to multi-task
• Excellent communication skills
• Consumer focused
• Good team player
• You must be able to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
• Must be able to work well as an individual
• The ability to pick up new systems quickly
• You must be able to demonstrate previous experiences using broadcast software.

Please apply to be considered.