Broadcast Media Administrator: Archive & Workflow Expert

Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Group term life insurance

Long-term disability insurance

403(b) retirement plan eligibility

Vacation, holidays, personal, and sick

Job summary

Leading The Way seeks a Media Administrator, TV Department, to ensure editors access media assets, maintain archival systems, and keep the production environment stable for LTW’s weekly national broadcast.

The role requires strong technical skills in Avid Interplay/CatDV, Telestream Vantage, and extensive media management experience, with a focus on reliability and process discipline.

Qualifications

• Experience in media management or broadcast production.
• Proficiency with asset management systems and workflows.
• Ability to archive large media libraries to LTO tapes.
• Strong naming conventions and metadata discipline.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Work primarily within Avid Interplay, CatDV, and the server environment as the central platforms for daily media management
• Preserve, catalog, and archive hundreds of terabytes of footage to LTO tapes (LTO8, Spectra robot); monitor and maintain space across all TV-related drives to ensure system stability
• Ingest, allocate, restore, and deliver media assets from recordings, trips, and archived sources to editors in a timely manner, with prioritization based on production need
• Sync and pass sequences and projects to the appropriate team members in support of active production workflows
• Maintain a searchable index, logical folder structure, strict naming conventions, and metadata procedures for all content across LTO tapes, external hard drives, cloud storage, and the off-site Iron Mountain library
• Troubleshoot content retrieval, archival, and system performance issues; serve as the keeper of the shared media environment so 10-12 editors can work without delay or disruption
• Catalog, sequence, and administer media through CatDV; oversee external hard drive usage and manage project archives within Basecamp
• Track, assess, and oversee all active projects; maintain up-to-date editor project lists and deliver weekly reports on every piece in motion
• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot TV workflows in Telestream Vantage; actively develop new ways to automate current processes and research and evaluate emerging and value-added storage solutions including cloud storage and LTO tape
• Consult with leadership on asset management, storage budgeting, and capacity decisions; administer and update media file delivery across all online ministry portals including YouTube, website, and phone app
• Steward an expanding archival operation, including the active procurement and management of LTO tapes to secure assets, free active storage, and sustain the weekly production and national broadcast of LTW's television program
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor

Skills

Avid Interplay

Avid Media Composer

Adobe Premiere

DaVinci Resolve

CatDV

Telestream Vantage

LTO archiving

Project tracking

Basecamp

Media management

Tools

Spectra robot

Basecamp

LTO tape system

Cloud storage

Job description

Leading The Way seeks a Media Administrator, TV Department, to ensure editors access media assets, maintain archival systems, and keep the production environment stable for LTW’s weekly national broadcast.

The role requires strong technical skills in Avid Interplay/CatDV, Telestream Vantage, and extensive media management experience, with a focus on reliability and process discipline.