Multicam Technician

Job Title: Multicam Operator

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Multicam Operator to join our team at News UK. As a Multicam Operator, you will be responsible for providing high-quality visual output for our live broadcasts. You will work closely with our Visual Operations Manager to ensure that our visualisation is of the highest standard.

Key Responsibilities:

• Vision mixing in a live broadcast environment
• Visual content creation and project management
• Correctly copying text onto screen graphics
• Liaising with the Visual News Producer/Editor and grabbing assets from folders
• Making sure presenters are framed correctly and constantly checking the output
• Being fully aware of all compliance issues, including Ofcom and reporting restrictions
• Taking responsibility for making our visuals look next level
• Reporting technical issues through the appropriate channels
• Constantly checking for breaking news and stories
• Maintaining Mulicam's efficiency and ensuring that servers are rebooted and storage regularly checked and cleared

Requirements:

• A passion for radio production and an ear for great audio
• A creative mind, ability to think differently about new concepts for radio and visualisation
• Strong attention to detail to ensure accuracy and spot errors
• Excellent communications skills
• Up-to-date with current news environment
• Thriving in fast-paced environments and able to work quickly in small teams
• Used to working closely with presenters and knowing how to engage them
• Understanding of relevant compliance and legal issues
• Embracing change and suggesting new initiatives and ways of working

Behaviours:

• Passionate about the work you do, embracing every opportunity to do your best work
• Principled in the way you go about your role and the decisions you make
• Purposeful with a strong desire to achieve and deliver work to a high standard

About News UK:

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, Talk, and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio 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 multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

About 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.