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Performs complex design, installation, maintenance, and repair of video production and control room equipment and information systems used to record and transmit live and recorded productions in multiple media formats. |
| 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.
- Oversees day-to-day tasks and assignments for control room operations and staff.
- Installs, configures, and operates electronic equipment used to record, edit, and transmit video productions.
- Designs and maintains layouts, flowcharts, and/or schematics of control room and audio and video equipment.
- Integrates video programming with live web casting and video-on-demand equipment and needs.
- Creates, revises, and implements Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) related to control room use and equipment for use by City staff.
- Mixes and regulates sound inputs and feeds and/or coordinates audio feeds with live broadcasts and recordings.
- Troubleshoots and performs repairs and routine cleaning of audio and video equipment.
- Sets up, hauls, loads, and unloads equipment; operates cameras, lighting equipment, teleprompters, microphones, and other audio equipment; and monitors and adjusts equipment during recording sessions.
- Constructs and positions sets, lighting equipment, and other City equipment and property.
- Determines video production equipment needs and makes recommendation for purchases.
- Researches technology solutions to address video production needs.
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| Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised: |
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Responsible for full range of supervisory activities: selection, training, evaluation, counseling, and recommendation for dismissal.
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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 circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
- 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 web media formats and related applications.
- Knowledge of supervisory and managerial techniques and principles
- Knowledge of applicable processes, techniques, and methods.
- Knowledge of City practice, policy, and procedures.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
- Skill in handling multiple tasks and prioritizing.
- Skill in using computers and related software.
- Skill in data analysis and problem solving.
- Ability to control operations of equipment or systems.
- Ability to use 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 train others.
- Ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or patterns 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 controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Ability to work with frequent interruptions and changes in priorities.
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with other City employees and the public.
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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, plus four (4) years of experience 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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