OTT Platform Manager

Job description

Local TV broadcaster is looking for a reliable, detail-driven individual to manage its OTT/VOD platform. This entails curating content on the platform, managing workflows from content contributors, uploading content and doing quality control.

Specific tasks

• Curate and upload content onto the platform.
• Keep channel content up-to-date and delete outdated material.
• Copywriting – write short, punchy descriptions of the content with correct spelling and grammar. 
• Research – online research on persons featured in the content, research user experience of the platform.
• Basic video editing – put ticker lines or captions on videos, find thumbnail images.
• Basic graphics – cropping, resizing and touching-up images.
• Liaising with content partners/producers to get the right information and ensure that deliverables are being delivered.
• Liaising with the News team to keep content on the News channel up-to-date.
• Liaising with the Programming and Production departments to ensure all relevant content is secured and uploaded.
• Liaise with content partners for live streams. 
• Liaise with content partners doing their own uploads to ensure they are doing it correctly and to moderate content where necessary.
• Liaise with the Marketing Department to ensure online and on-air marketing is done; compile social media posts where necessary.
• Train content partners on how to upload their content.
• Trawl through archived content to find relevant material to upload and to secure online distribution rights from the copyright holder.
• Monitor and analyze user behavior to optimize and promote featured content.

The ideal candidate would be a marketing, journalism or digital media graduate with 2-5 years experience in a media industry. Experience working in a non-profit organisation is an advantage.

Requirements

• Copywriting
• Video editing
• Computer graphics

Company Description

Community television broadcaster