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News Coordinator
WTSP-TV, 10 Tampa Bay the CBS affiliate in the 11th Market, is looking for a News Coordinator. This person is multiskilled and agile when it comes to problem-solving and facilitating a fast-paced work environment. The position is primarily WFH now but will transition back to the newsroom in 2021.
The duties of this position include but are not limited to being a conduit between our general viewer emails, social messages (direct and post) and other digital outreach AND our content producing teams. This person would develop a response system under Director of Content guidance and approval. The News Coordinator would funnel stories, comments and events to the appropriate news manager for dissemination and work to create a 100% response rate to all interactions from our community. The News Coordinator is also responsible for valuable and needed assistance to the Director of Content. This is a support role for several administrative duties from scheduling, payroll, time card management, PTO requests, budget, expense reports, invoices.
- Assists Director of Content in personnel related processes and paperwork.
- Maintains Director of Content's calendar and files.
- Maintains staff personnel files.
- Assists Director of Content in contract maintenance.
- Monitors contract outs, updates contract summary as needed.
- Tracks monthly budget expenses; accrues as needed at direction of Director of Content. Assists annual departmental budget.
- Processes/Prepares news invoices/department expense reports for news management.
- Schedules the newsroom: processing and tracking vacation; works under news management supervision.
- Ensures performance reviews are completed in a timely fashion.
- Provides clerical and administrative support for the Director of Content.
- Coordinates travel for Director of Content, newsroom recruiting and news coverage trips.
- Coordinates news management and news department meetings.
- Creates and distributes weekly news manager meeting minutes.
- Monitors timesheets and calculates overtime for News Department, with weekly report to Director of Content.
- Develops, coordinates and serves as primary point person for a social response.
- Works with Director of Content to outline priorities for to achieve 100% response rate.
- Disseminates appropriate information to appropriate news management for implementation and/or action.
- Serves as digital/social ambassador and conduit with general newsroom email and social questions and comments.
- Tracks and orders office supplies for news department.
- Assists in processes for new-hires and on-boarding.
- Other duties as assigned.
- College Degree preferred
- High level of organizational and planning skills
- A sense of humor and patience
- Flexibility and understanding
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks & big personalities
- Excellent Communicator
- Customer Service Orientation
- Proficient in Word, Excel, Powerpoint
- Proficient in Social Media
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