| Purpose: |
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Under general supervision, performs technical work in the production of creative and non-creative video and audio presentations for training, communications, and public information. |
| Duties, Functions and Responsibilities: |
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Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.
- Confers with clients to determine program needs, identify production options, assist with script development, and determine overall program content.
- Conceptualizes, designs, and coordinates the production of video and audio programs to be used in training and staff development, public information and education presentations, promotional programs, and internal and external informational productions.
- Sets up, hauls, loads and unloads equipment; operates cameras, lighting equipment, teleprompters, microphones, and other audio equipment; and monitors and adjusts equipment during taping sessions.
- Shoots and edits video, selects music, designs digital video effects, and creates graphics in order to create a finished product using editing systems and equipment.
- Writes, either individually or as a member of a team, and edits scripts for video and audio productions.
- Duplicates and distributes video and audio programs on various media formats to department employees, the general public, the media, and other stakeholders.
- Maintains a video production library by cataloging productions into electronic format.
- Creates graphics for use in video production projects and for video bulletin board.
- Creates and maintains playback scheduling.
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| Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised: |
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May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, and guidance to others.
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| Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: |
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Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
- Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods, including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- Knowledge of applicable processes, techniques, and methods.
- Knowledge of City practice, policy, and procedures.
- Skill in handling multiple tasks and prioritizing.
- Skill in working with Engineering News-Gathering (ENG) cameras.
- Skill in using computers and related software applications.
- Skill in controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Skill in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Ability to work with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities.
- Ability to use non-linear editing systems.
- Ability to train others.
- Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
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| Minimum Qualifications: |
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- Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Radio-TV-Film (RTVF), Electrical Engineering, and Telecommunications or in a field related to the job.
- Experience may substitute for education up to four (4) years.
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| Licenses and Certifications Required: |
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Valid Texas Class C Driver License.
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