Fantastic opportunity to work within Sports Broadcasting! Opportunity for a Sport Scheduler to join a leading Broadcaster for an initial 6 month contract. This role is faced paced, super exciting and offers hybrid working, based in West London on your office day(s) each week.
Responsibilities:
- Break optimisation and presentation scheduling
- Delivery of fully optimised, editorially sound and compliant playlists
- Preparing mid and long term programme schedules
- Break modelling, optimising on-air time and commercial time in accordance with inventory and marketing strategy
- Preparing live sport break structure following running orders, Sport Department guidelines and commercial/promotional inventory
- Import and update external program grids
- Assessing and optimising airtime for local broadcast
- Being reactive to changes in programme content, sport rights and repeats of live events
- Daily on-air scheduling, liaising with in-territory and UK departments to ensure a fully optimised and compliant playlist
- Support scheduling of live sport broadcasts including contingency playlist
- Providing assistance to the Live Team
- Schedule on-air look, placement graphics and legally required graphics
- Schedule and maintain contingency playlist for standard broadcast as required by SOP's
- Following up technical issues
- Liaising with Subtitle Coordinators re subtitles and audio description files
Your experience may include:
- Scheduling experience related to broadcasting, ideally within free to air/commercial on-air scheduling
- Good knowledge of the scheduling system
- Great understanding of sport & live broadcast
- An understanding of the End to End Broadcast chain.
- Good knowledge of break optimisation and marketing Strategies
- Knowledge of European Legislators such as Ofcom & CSA is a benefit
Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
