Media Coordinator

A little bit about our team

The Operations team is the team that makes sure that all of the UKTVs disparate business areas work in harmony to deliver content to our linear and non-linear platforms within the set timelines. They take ownership of this and seek out improvements and savings to run a highly efficient process. They are a delivery focussed team but are fun to work with and have great relationships with internal teams and 3 rd party suppliers.

Purpose of the role

As an ambitious broadcaster, UKTV is pushing the boundaries of the traditional outsourced media management and bringing in-house the responsibility of looking after our own content.

Starting small, we are looking for an experienced Media Co-ordinator, ideally with some cloud experience, to help us ingest, check and manage our inventory of content. The media coordinator will ensure our contents secure and timely onward delivery to our third-party service providers, such as playout or VOD partners. The role will also ensure the most efficient use of cloud platform and monitor the usage of cloud activity.

Using our new tool, Freeway, our platform will mostly be automated with content stored in the cloud. The Media Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring content from external suppliers is ingested correctly, ensuring it meets our delivery technical expectations, to identify issues, interpret auto quality check reports, perform manual quality checks, perform transcodes, monitor inputs and outputs, trouble-shooting platform and media-based issues. There will be some liaising with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to ensure the smooth running of the service. Being a new service there will be some expectation to document processes and develop best practices.

In this role, you will get to...

You will get to work on an evolving cloud-based media platform, influence functionality, workflows and processes. you will contribute great ideas and knowledge to help build an industry-leading workflow and ingest and process all of UKTV's archive of great content. The chance to influence new media workflows, understand about the cloud and be part of a team challenging the traditions of media supply.