Post Production System Specialist

GBH enriches peoples lives through programs and services that educate inspire and entertain fostering citizenship and culture the joy of learning and the power of diverse perspectives.

At GBH we believe in the advantages of coming together to build community mentor and learn from colleagues and connect more deeply with our mission. As a result the majority of our staff are hybrid and work both from home and onsite. Our current hybrid approach requires staff to work onsite a minimum of two days each week every Tuesday and Wednesday Hybrid staff are also welcome to come in additional days each week or may be asked to come in on other days by their manager.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

Technology supports a diverse community of GBHers working in Broadcasting Content Creation Education Digital Assistive Technologies Local News and Administrative roles. Roughly 80 staff work in 6 teams within the Department and the team is committed to creative problem solving and respectful candor. We like to build improve launch automate and repair.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Post Production Systems Specialist supports video editing technology at GBH and is responsible for leading post-production troubleshooting and resolutions of hardware software and network issues as well as providing support for applications operating system and hardware problems when issues are escalated to them. The Post Production Systems Specialist supports cross-unit collaboration with production units across the Foundation. The job supports video production where schedule flexibility is necessary as production work demands.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Act as a liaison and project manager for Technology and Production Group joint projects

Work with individual production units to effectively integrate and improve technological needs

Manage support and design video editing workflows across the organization

Work closely with Post Systems specialists and help train other team members on Post Production systems and best practices to broaden cross-training on support team

Work closely with the Systems and Network teams to assist with all aspects of maintaining and expanding the network and system infrastructure at GBH

Involved in implementing operating and supporting all GBHs video editing systems which may include storage editing production billing and transcoding

• Serve as secondary contact for Post Production vendors

Serve as primary or secondary administrator on several systems and will help users to engage with those systems as well as managing planned changes and improvements of those applications

• Build effective relationships with customers management and technical teams

Identify and mitigate risk manage change and work in a fast-paced environment

SKILL SET

Ability to handle ambiguity build order from chaos and drive success without strict guidelines or defined roles

Effective verbal and written communication skills across a broad spectrum of audiences from senior management to end-users

Goal-oriented and organized

Demonstrable passion for learning new technologies and ability to pick up technical concepts rapidly

Self-motivated highly interested in process improvement and pride in ownership and doing your best work

A willingness to dive deep experiment rapidly and get things done

Flexibility with changing programs and processes

Proficient in office and Video Edit / NLE Platform Experience (AVID Media Composer/Adobe Premiere)

Knowledge of video editing storage experience Nexis/Media Central and/or EditShare

Experience optimizing and troubleshooting systems/programs

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience required. 3 years of increasing responsibility within a multi-location or matrixed organization.

JOB SPECIFICS

Staff position

Hybrid position

LOCATION

1 Guest Street Boston MA 02135

Thispositionis located in Boston MA and requires on-site presence.