Business Specialist, Text
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The Business Specialist for Text will administer legal and financial transactions for the Text Editorial group of the National Geographic Partners Editorial Group, implementing and following best practices across content areas.
Responsibilities
• Work with NG systems to set up contractors in Accounts Payable and Editorial management systems Work with Legal as necessary to negotiate and review contracts and ensure they are tracked and archived properly
• Assist contractors with the onboarding process and if necessary assist with travel arrangements
• Consistently and properly executed agreements stored in an easy to find and approved manner
• Work with editorial and finance staff to determine when payments should be made
• Make timely payments to authors/reporters, monitoring due dates of text and checking with editors and editorial executives to ensure prompt payment and that deadlines are not missed
• Work with editors to create, input, and finalize the story budgets into editorial database
• Approved and accurately tracked text budgets for each feature article, news story, or short-form piece
• Maintain editorial projections by regularly updating story spending and by coordinating with editors and authors to confirm that actual spending is at or under budget
• Manage editorial projections for accuracy and to assure that stories do not exceed targets and department budget is accurate
• Maintains and updates the author and article database for the Text section of the Editorial group
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Minimum of 1-2 years of contract and database administration experience.
• Basic math skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, database software
National Geographic Partners LLC, a joint venture between National Geographic Society and 21st Century Fox, combines National Geographic television channels with National Geographic's media and consumer-oriented assets, including National Geographic magazines; National Geographic Studios; related digital and social media platforms; books; maps; children's media; and ancillary activities that include travel, location-based entertainment, archival sales, catalog, licensing and e-commerce businesses. A portion of the proceeds from National Geographic Partners LLC will be used to fund science, exploration, conservation and education through significant ongoing contributions to the work of the National Geographic Society.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.