Production Coordinator (National Geographic)

The Production Coordinator for National Geographic’s Yellow Border Production Services team will provide production support to a busy, fast-paced production department; provide organized assistance to Executive Producers, Producers, Associate Producers, and Yellow Border Production Services Management team as needed; oversee final delivery of cut-to-clocks, ensuring compliance with all editorial standards, Legal requirements, Research requests, S&P requests, and Quality Control, for broadcast on National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild, and nonlinear streaming platforms including Disney+ and Hulu; assist with developing concepts and producing compilations, mashups, cutdowns, updates, and popped shows as assigned; work with Legal to determine available rights to existing content and license footage from stock vendors; assist Producers with selecting narrators, recording studios, and preparing scripts for narration records; and create deliverables for shows, including music cue sheets, credits, acquired footage logs, conformed scripts, and graphics logs. This position will not supervise other staff / have any direct reports.           

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assist with researching, developing concepts, and with writing pitches for shows aligning with National Geographic Content’s creative vision.
• Assist with creation of greenlit content from pre-production through post-production.
• Create production and post-production schedules and deliver shows on time.
• Assist with post-production process for all assigned shows.
• Compile scripts.
• Create and complete deliverables.
• Research stock footage.
• Assist with researching narrators, recording studios, and attend narration records.
• Request graphic bids.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 1+ years’ experience working in content production for a production company or network.
• English language required, and additional languages are a plus.
• Strong storytelling skills.
• Extremely detail-oriented and organized, with a strong ability to manage multiple projects, and appropriately prioritize deadlines and deliverables.
• Strong interpersonal communication and writing skills.
• Ability to collaborate well with team members, departments across the company, and third-party vendors.
• Strong creative thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to update and work within production budgets.
• An inclusive mindset and personal commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and participation in related efforts. 
• Basic computer skills, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Power Point, Teams. Familiarity with editing systems, and databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in non-fiction content production is preferred.
• Additional languages preferred.

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree.

Preferred Education:           

• Film Production, Television Production, Journalism, or Communications.