Special Projects Specialist

WACH FOX 57; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Sinclair is seeking a Special Projects Specialist to drive community engagement across ACCET initiatives. You will coordinate events, contests, and promotional content, ensuring alignment with brand and guidelines.

The role involves planning, content development, and collaboration with sales, marketing, social, news, and production teams. You will manage timelines, coordinate with partners, and assist in on-site event activities, including pre-taped segments and production support across ACCET

Qualifications

• Event and project coordination experience
• Ability to coordinate multiple events and deadlines
• Strong communication with community partners and stakeholders
• Experience collaborating with sales, marketing, social, news and production teams
• Attention to detail and creative problem-solving
• Proficiency with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

• Meet with community partners and stations to review events.
• Develop plans to execute events and initiatives in the region.
• Create internal and external communications (press releases, sales reels, employee notes).
• Work with legal to develop contest promotion rules.
• Enter projects into Adobe Workfront for promos and PSAs.
• Provide content creation elements for campaigns.
• Assist in planning high school sports production region-wide.

Skills

Organizational skills

Time-management

Written communication

Verbal communication

Timeline management

Logistics coordination

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Creative problem-solving

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Office

Tools

Adobe Workfront

Adobe Creative Cloud

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

The Agile Content Creation Engagement Team (ACCET) Special Projects Specialist will help with the execution of contests, community/ station events. This person will coordinate and execute special projects such as community awareness, disaster relief, contests, and other duties as assigned.
This position will assist with calendarizing events, contests, or special projects. In addition, this role will ensure events, contests, or special projects coincide with ACCET brand and community guidelines.
The Special Projects Coordinator will assist with the creation of such items as: promotional content, sponsored content, sponsored elements, promotional news/ social copy, writing press releases, developing on-site elements, coordinating emcee schedules, organizing onsite activities, ordering branded items, and ordering local ACCET station and Sinclair properties branded marketing materials (SWAG).
Event and project coordination experience

Strong organizational and time-management skills

Excellent written and verbal communication

Ability to manage timelines, logistics and multiple deadlines

Community-partner and stakeholder communication

Cross Collaboration experience with sales, marketing, social, news and production

Creative problem-solving and attention to detail

Proficiency in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office

Special Projects Specialists Day Will Consist Of

• Meet with community partners and stations to review events.
• Develop plans to execute events and initiatives in the region.
• Collaborate and assist with the creation of internal and external communications (i.e., Press releases, Sales Sizzle reels, and employee communication).
• Work with legal to develop rules for local station and Sinclair contest promotions.
• Enter project request into Adobe Workfront for community events promos, PSAs, contest, etc. to be developed.
• Provide elements for content creation
• Assist in the planning, standardization of high school sports production in the region, and across ACCET.
• Including but not limited to; scheduling pre-taped segments, coordinating with schools leading up to games, scheduling client interviews, ordering trophies and plaques, creating weekly run-downs/ scripts, and being on site for game day production.
  

Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud — especially Premiere Pro. After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator a plus.
Sinclair is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a drug free workplace. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Sinclair

The Company owns, operates and/or provides services to 177 television stations in 79 markets affiliated with all major broadcast networks; owns Tennis Channel, the premium destination for tennis enthusiasts; and multicast networks CHARGE, Comet, ROAR and The Nest. Sinclair’s AMP Media produces a growing portfolio of digital content and original podcasts. Additional information about Sinclair can be found at www.sbgi.net.

About The Team

The life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let’s talk.

Please note that this position is not eligible for visa sponsorship, including employer sponsorship for an H-1B visa, OPT-STEM employment, etc.
Sinclair is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a drug free workplace. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.