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Assistant Producer - Sky Sports News (Digital)
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Job Description
Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
The role of the Assistant Producer - Digital is to contribute to the production of market-leading digital sports video and audio and ensure its timely delivery for publication across Sky Sports Digital Media platforms (www.skysports.com, and Sky Sports Mobile applications), and third party distribution channels.
The role also requires collaboration and communication with the editorial and social teams in Sky Sports Digital as well as more widely with Sky Sports News and Sky Sports Content teams.
Reporting to the Producer - Digital Video this is a key role that will ensure Sky Sports remains the destination of choice for sports fans, creates revenue opportunities and continues to add value to the Sky Sports subscription.
What You’ll Do
- Deliver sports news content that reflects the ongoing news agenda as well as reacting to live content through video analysis
- Create and publish high-quality sports news video content for all platforms, including everyday news content, features and creative news explainers
- Ensure the delivery and presentation of sports news digital video in a timely and accurate manner
- Assist with the production of studio shoots via the Sky Sports News studio and Vertical camera with reporters and journalists
- Occasionally produce and oversee streams and red button productions in ECR
- Assist in production of audio podcasts across sports and sports news, sometimes working with Sports Content teams, delivering promotional material for wider use on social platforms
- Ensure best practices for SEO are applied at all times
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Essential Criteria
- Experience of editing and producing sports content services, particularly in the digital space
- A creative style with a view to telling Sports news in a way that an audience can understand
- Significant sports journalism experience and demonstrable experience in multimedia production. Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with a working knowledge of media law
- An understanding of new and emerging media technologies and platforms and experience of delivering content services to each
- Experience working within complex and multidimensional work environments, managing multiple stakeholders with different objectives
- Good knowledge of video production and video production software such as Avid, Adobe and Grabyo
- Experience and knowledge of audio and podcast production and publishing
Benefits And Perks
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:
- Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
How You’ll Work
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 days in the office per week.
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Osterley
Our Sky Group HQ. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and workspaces, there’s plenty of space to see your big ideas come to life. Here you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants and cafes. You can re-energise at our gym, catch the latest films at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Our Osterley Campus is just a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station, or you can get one of our free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations. Plus, there’s free onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.
Who We Are
We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.
We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.
Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.
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