Job Description
Salary: *Starting at $22.90 per hour
Position Grade: 36T
Department: Communications Division
Job Type: Permanent Per Performance (Part-time)
Examination Number: EX1494
Location: 4971 Oakland Ave. - St. Louis, MO
Positions are paid on an hourly basis and are not eligible for the Employee Benefits Program. *Salary may increase based on duties.
Incumbents in this position provide talent production assistance in the development and production of studio/remote programming projects as well as television production equipment for the local government access channel. Examples of duties include identifying potential interviewees, briefing and preparing questions, and conducting live and recorded interviews on camera; writing production scripts, researching background information, logging tapes, and reading time code to prepare for programs; making public appearances for talent; and recording voice-over narration.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Videotapes various events, meetings, and conferences.
- Performs pre-production activities; writes or assists in writing program scripts; formats materials for programming; prepares graphics and story boards.
- Sets up various video equipment for on-location and studio programs.
- Functions as a member of the production team during productions; operates cameras, audio board, teleprompter, or other video equipment; directs productions.
- Reviews programs and operates production equipment to edit audio and video, makes dubs, generates graphics, and produces the edited program.
- Plays back programs on cable channels. Logs tapes.
- May provide guidance and instruction to production interns.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance and/or interpretation to others, such as coworkers, guests on shows, other city employees and the public, on how to apply policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a video camera, video computer, editor, switcher, and production vehicles, and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as regulations, production forms, scripts and voice-overs, show formats, correspondence and general operating manuals.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objective.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
- Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as heat, bright lights, and electrical currents.
- Physical Requirements: Tasks require the ability to regularly perform moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling of moderately light objects and materials, up to twenty (20) pounds. Requires the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, balance, bend, and climb in order to perform production related duties such as operating cameras, lighting sets, running cables, and moving equipment.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds, and textures associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks such as setting color for cameras, editing video and audio, and camera operation.
An Associate’s degree in Communications, or a related field; plus one year of full-time paid video/TV production experience, such as operation of cameras and editing equipment, on-camera performance, script writing, narration, or other related production work. OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
License: Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must possess a valid driver's license at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Please note type of license, number, class and expiration date on the Employment Application. Only qualified applicants who provide proof of a valid driver’s license will be considered for this position.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.