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Job description / Role
Brief Description Detailed Description
- Work closely with Producers and/or Writers, refining and realizing original ideas into finished programs
- Make careful preparations in order to ensure the success of bulletin or program
- Have a clear creative vision of the project, and what materials are required to achieve it
- Provide crew members with accurate instructions and directions
- Direct multi camera programs from the Gallery, under considerable time pressures to produce smooth running, quick turnaround programs
- Change the running order at the last minute in order to accommodate emerging items, and must be able to react quickly and effectively in extremely stressful circumstances.
- Work closely with Vision Mixers and Production Assistants (PAs) in the Gallery (control room) to visually create the program
- Communicate via talkback equipment to technical personnel including Floor Managers, Camera Operators, Sound Supervisors, Boom Operators, Lighting Gaffers and other personnel
- Ensure all relevant components of bulletins are available for transmission
- Ensure that all staff and equipments needed for bulletin are ready
- Ensure that studio and assigned shifts operate within a clearly defined standards and policies
- Ensure MBC's technical standards are maintained at all times
- Coordinate with all concerned in the news production team in his assigned shift and bulletins to ensure all relevant components of bulletins are available for transmission and that all staff and equipments needed for bulletin are ready
- Supervise preliminary preparations for production process (such as hair and make up, camera in position, and proper lightning)
- Issue order to go live
- Monitor the live broadcasting process.
- Give clear and coherent directions to staff when being on air
- Liaise with Presentation to ensure smooth running of the bulletin
Requirements
- Minimum Experience of 5 years of on TV Studio Operations
- Experience on TV visual and audible presentation.
- Experience in TV technologies and tools such as lighting, shooting, videoing, editing, floor management, Auto-cuing, etc
- Assets Management
- TV technologies and tools such as lighting, shooting, videoing, editing, floor management, Auto-cuing, etc
- Advanced IT skills
- Ability to organize resources
- Quality Control and Assurance for media supportive services
- Resources & Equipment Utilization
- Health & safety procedures / concerns
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills
- Analytical skills
- Attention to detail
- Awareness of group policies / guidelines
- Ability to work under pressure & meet deadlines
- Flexibility / punctuality / dependable / cooperative
About the Company
MBC GROUP is the largest media company in the Middle East & North Africa region that enriches people’s lives through information, interaction and entertainment. In 2002, nearly a decade after the launch of MBC1 in London, in 1991, MBC GROUP moved its headquarters to Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates.
Today, MBC GROUP includes over 17 leading TV channels: MBC1 (general family entertainment); MBC2 & MBC MAX (24-hour western movies); MBC3 (children’s edutainment with a mix of both local productions and western acquisitions); MBC4 (entertainment for young families with a female-focus); MBC ACTION (an indigenous adrenaline-packed channel targeting young males with local and homegrown productions); MBC VARIETY (Western films and general entertainment with uninterrupted broadcasting); MBC DRAMA (24/7 Arabic drama) & MBC+ DRAMA (a joint pay-TV channel between MBC and OSN); MBC PERSIA (general family entertainment dubbed and subtitled in Farsi); WANASAH (24-hour Arabic music channel); MBC MASR & MBC MASR2 (general family entertainment geared towards the Egyptian family); MBC BOLLYWOOD (delivering the freshest in Bollywood content geared towards the region via an Arabized interface); MBC USA (on “Dish Network” in the US); MBC IRAQ (a premium channel aimed at the entire Iraqi family), MBC5 (new satellite channel dedicated to the Maghreb); all of them benefit from MBC STUDIOS which produces the region’s most compelling premium content for cinema, television and on-demand platforms. MBC GROUP also includes two FM radio stations: MBC FM (Gulf music) and Panorama FM (contemporary Arabic hit music).
Furthermore, part of MBC GROUP is Shahid and its premium subscription-based service Shahid VIP, the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform, home to highly rated original productions from the Arab world, a wide range of exclusive movies and premieres, as well as the top watched live Arab TV channels.