Coordinator, Docs
Discovery Communications
Los Angeles, CAThis was removed by the employer on 5/11/2021 10:33:00 AM PST
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The Role
As Docs Coordinator, you will be a critical part of the team responsible for Discovery’s direct-to-consumer documentaries, including development, production & acquisitions. You will be reporting directly into the Head of Documentaries at Discovery .
The right person for this role is passionate about documentaries, highly organized, and hungry to learn.
Responsibilities
• Responsible for tracking submissions from third parties: original pitches (in partnership with Docs & Specials and Original Series team where applicable), acquired docs (in partnership with Acquisitions team), and co-productions (in partnership with Docs & Specials and Original Series team where applicable).
• Implement multi-network and multi-territory content evaluation processes to ensure content is reviewed, escalated, and passed on / pursued by the Docs team, with visibility across US and International network teams
• Track title schedules and dates for delivery, start / refresh dates, work with Business Affairs and Legal to track key dates for options, expirations, etc
• Conduct market and competitive research to deepen industry knowledge; track content availability on competitive services
• Work with content operations for delivery / QC / on-site show assets, merchandising for on-channel marketing
• Pull user behavioral data to inform content decisions
• Supporting the DTC content team as a whole, including original programming and acquisitions as needed.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in related field or an equivalent combination of skills, training and hands-on experience.
• Minimum of 2 years’ work experience at an agency, production company, network or streaming company
• Keen attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, strong follow-through
• Demonstrated good judgement, strong critical thinking skills, and developed taste for a broad variety of unscripted content
• Self-starter, takes initiative; proven ability to work proactively, independently, and reliably under tight timeframes in a fast-paced environment
• Strong verbal and written communications skills; must be articulate and professional in both written and verbal forms
• Clear understanding of the development & production process.
• Comfortable in ambiguity and effective operating in a matrixed organization
• Ability to thrive in an evolving and fast-paced environment, prioritizing and handling multiple projects concurrently
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, PPT, Excel) and Google Suite (Docs, Slides, and Sheets)
• Collaborative, curious, resourceful
• Must have the legal right to work in the United States.