DIRECTOR OF LIVE EVENTS & ACC NETWORK
- Employer
- Duke University
- Location
- Athletics Administration
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Occupational Summary:
Requirements include an undergraduate degree; at least three years working video production experience with a college or professional sports team; demonstrated video shooting, editing and production skills; an understanding of proper lighting techniques; a grasp of existing and emerging technology; the ability to engineer a video production room and equipment; a solid understanding of marketing and promotional theories and practices; outstanding communication and organizational skills; and expertise with video editing systems such as Adobe Premiere Pro.
Under the direction of the Executive Director of Blue Devil Network, the Director of Live Events & ACC Networks will be responsible for all broadcasts originating from Duke control rooms. Working closely with the Duke’s broadcast partner, ESPN, as well as Marketing, Promotions, Internet Operations and various other departments, the job will encompass managing a team that shoots and edits video, designs graphics, and manages in-game entertainment needs, involving both coordination of production crew and engineering aspects of equipment.
Work Performed:
- Oversee day-to-day operations of all live broadcasts for Duke Athletics, including ACC Network linear, digital, and pass-through events as well as all videoboard productions
- Manage the Live Productions group of Blue Devil Network
- Manage a large team of freelancers that makeup the crew for live productions
- Work with Duke engineer to oversee and maintain all equipment
- Maintain relationships with ESPN/ACC Network personnel, keeping Duke at the forefront of innovation with broadcast partners
- Work with senior staff on emerging technology and how it best fits the needs of Duke Athletics
- Work with Executive Director on budgeting decisions for equipment and personnel
- Work with Marketing staff to produce and direct videoboard shows
- Exhibit a good grasp of existing technology and engineering of a control room and video equipment
- Stay current with broadcast trends around the country
- Have a working knowledge of emerging technologies as they develop
- Have full understanding of broadcast cabling at all of Duke’s facilities
- Work with Duke Athletics facilities and game operations staff to make sure all facilities are up to date for broadcasts for ACC Network and broadcast truck needs
Minimum Qualifications
Education
Work requires knowledge of video production, as well as communications, analytical and organizational skills generally acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program in a related field.
Experience
Work requires a minimum of three years' experience working video production with a college or professional sports team.
Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
Organization
History
Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.
As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.
Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.
Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.
Mission Statement
"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'
“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.
“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”
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