Full Time
Senior Manager – Remote Overnight Jobs
Job Description
Job Type: Senior Manager from home
Location: New Jersey work from home
Company: Disney
Responsibilities:
- Leading every area of the Field Operations business in Secaucus, New Jersey, is one of the duties of the Senior Manager, Field Operations position at ABC News. All ABC News coverage on the ground, including breaking news, begins with this team. The following duties are specific:
- Managing technical equipment, deploying assets in the field, assigning technical managers and engineers to the field, buying equipment, setting budgets, starting capital projects, and implementing new field technologies.
- Managing a staff that is both unionized and non-unionized while remaining knowledgeable of collective bargaining agreements, such as NABET/CWA & DGA.
- Encouraging a diverse and cooperative workplace and acting as a catalyst for culture change.
- Building good connections with ABC News partners, including show producers, while managing many projects, frequently with competing deadlines.
- To efficiently handle competing events, technical managers and broadcast engineers should coordinate and harmonize their scheduling practices.
- For use in breaking news and scheduled events, researchers must test and develop novel field technologies.
- Availability around-the-clock to react to breaking news anywhere in the world.
- Identify the requirements of a dynamic news operation and implement timely, inventive solutions.
- Travel on occasion as needed for work and production.
- The following functional areas require a high level of knowledge and proficiency to succeed in this position:
- Equipment used in the field, including as cameras, audio, lighting, IT, communications, and scenic design.
- Understanding of all forms of field transmission, including satellite, microwave, Peplink, Haivision, TVU, InSeeGo, and TVU.
- Understanding the power, UPS, networking, and remote studio building requirements for field production.
- Ability to comprehend all broadcasting equipment, services, and procedures’ technical drawings and other documents.
- Strong analytical and technical problem-solving abilities to identify and swiftly fix complicated system issues with little outside technical assistance and to create remedial actions for issues.
- The capacity to flourish in a team atmosphere that fosters innovation and collaboration at work.
Requirements:
Required credentials:
- Minimum six years of professional experience in managing a large staff, producing live news, and working remotely.
- Excellent communication skills both in writing and speaking.
- Interaction and influencing skills with teams and partners, both technical and non-technical.
- Accommodating the 24-hour news cycles with flexible scheduling.
- Being able to oversee teams across different time zones.
- Strong connections with vendors, industry associations, and media/production technology/systems.
- Knowledge of managing unionized staff in collaboration with business partners in labor relations, human resources, and finance.
- Having expertise in Excel and the Microsoft Office suite as well as project management.
- Knowledge of creating, improving, putting into practice, and maintaining workflows.
- Self-starter and cooperative team player adept at handling connections both inside and externally.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree or a similar level of expertise
