Publicity Assistant
Disney ABC Television Group
Burbank, CAThis was removed by the employer on 6/28/2017 10:53:00 AM PST
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Full Time Job
At Disney ABC/Television Group, you'll help us tell stories that touch millions of people around the globe and create new ways for us to connect with the world. Now is your opportunity to unleash your skills….
The Publicity Assistant provides administrative support for the Vice President and Executive Director of Freeform Media Relations and occasionally for their team members including overall office organization, maintaining calendars and expense reports, coordinating meetings, travel arrangements, covering phones, maintaining department press contact lists and news archives, drafting and proofreading press copy, distributing press information internally, assisting department staff with press events including escorting interviewees. Maintains timely updates to press information, provides back up to team members for media/press asset requests and social media tactics. Publicity Assistant will also help book talent travel (flights, hotel, cars, per diem) and help draft talent itineraries for press trips, events, etc.
Responsibilities
Administrative
• Handle phone calls, complete expense reports, maintain business calendars
• Organize flow of information to and from Vice President and Executive Director offices
Project Work
• Coordinate staff meetings
• Handles press requests
• Assists team at press events
• Draft and proofread press copy
• Update press lists
• Compile and distribute press clippings
• May assist with pitching series and talent to external print, online and broadcast press.
• Help book talent travel logistics (flights, hotel, cars, per diem) and draft talent itineraries for press trips/events.
Internal Relationships
• Interact with media relations management and staff
• Interact with Freeform and DATG management
• Interact with Administrative and other staff
External Relationships
• Interact with Consumer Press, Trade Press and other media outlets, PR firms, studio PR counterparts
• Interact with talent and their publicists/representatives
Basic Qualifications
• Administrative support experience
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong writing skills
• Proficiency with SAP, MS Word, Excel and Outlook; PowerPoint
• Sound work ethic
• Desire and commitment to accept increasingly greater challenges and responsibilities
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Knowledge about the entertainment industry and PR field
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Capable of working within a team environment and independently
Required Education
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
Company Overview
Disney|ABC Television Group is comprised of The Walt Disney Company's global entertainment and news television properties, owned television stations group, and radio business. This includes ABC Studios, the ABC Owned Television Stations Group, and the ABC Television Network, which provides entertainment and news programming to viewers via more than 200 affiliated stations across the U.S. It also includes Disney Channels Worldwide, a portfolio of 116 kid-driven, family-inclusive entertainment channels, including Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, Disney Cinemagic, Hungama, and Radio Disney brands, as well as cable network Freeform, which targets Millennials. Disney|ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution and Disney Media Distribution round out the portfolio. Disney|ABC Television Group also has equity interests in A E Networks and Hulu.
Additional Information:
Equal Opportunity Employer- Female/Minority/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
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