Studio Production Coordinator - Freelance

Job Description

Studio Production Coordinator – Freelance

Your team: News Studios, our state-of-the-art production facilities at The News Building in London, enables the production of high quality video content for all of News UK’s brands – including The Times & The Sunday Times, The Sun, talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Talk and Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Your role: The Studio Production Coordinator will support the Studio Production Manager and the broader team in all aspects of studio operations. This role is ideal for someone looking to gain hands-on experience in the broadcasting industry and develop their production skills.

Day to day you will:

• Support the Studio Production Manager in scheduling, budgeting, and coordinating production activities.
• Help maintain the studio environment, ensuring it is clean, organised, and well-stocked with necessary supplies.
• Assist with the coordination of flexible casual/ freelance resources which can be scaled to meet the demands on the studio.
• Prepare and distribute production schedules, call sheets, and other documentation.
• Coordinate payments, expenses and invoices for studio operations, suppliers, and freelancers.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations within the studio environment, keeping the gallery and studio tidy at all times and ensuring appropriate communication between the crew.
• Provide administrative support, including answering phones, managing emails, and organising files.
• Assist in the setup and breakdown of studio equipment for productions.
• Provide support on the studio floor for presenters and contributors, working with the crew to ensure productions run smoothly.
• Run errands and perform other tasks to support the studio team.
• Assist with troubleshooting technical issues during production.
• Be adaptable and flexible with the willingness to work across multi-disciplines in the gallery and the studio.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Strong organisational and multitasking skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of studio equipment and production processes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office/ Google Suite and other relevant software. Willingness to learn and take on new challenges.
• Knowledge of health and safety regulations within a studio environment.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy , which focuses on three main priorities – attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like-minded employees socially.

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