Bilingual Spanish Description Writer

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­BASIC PURPOSE: Performs creation and entry of television program information as assigned by the team leader and/or upper management.  This position includes heavy data entry with attention to detail, excellent writing skills including grammar and spelling, communication with vendors for schedules and other needs, ability to multi-task, deadline driven assignments, and inter-departmental communication skills.  This position is based on deadline and production requirements, monthly production expectations as measured by monthly metrics compilations, new vendor ramp-up, continual airing updates, and flexibility to handle tasks at a moment’s notice.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Creation and entry of program descriptions as assigned
• Creation and entry of all required program database information as assigned
• Proofreading other team members’ descriptions
• Checking central e-mail system for updates and program attributes for all stations assigned
• Ongoing contact with vendor/programmers
• Responding to and acting upon all scheduled and ad hoc individual or team reports
• Ability to meet and maintain minimum monthly production requirements, as measured by monthly compilation of individual productivity metrics.
• Performs other duties as required or appropriate.

DESCRIPTION WRITER REQUIREMENTS:

Description Writers are expected to perform up to or beyond a variety of assignment-specific minimums, maintaining production weekly production stats to which they will be held on an ongoing basis, as follows:

• • • Maintain Edit Log station assignments of primary and secondary priority levels, including at least 3 Best Bet stations.
    • Maintain an average written output of 3 Programs (15 Fields) completed per hour.

REQUIRED JOB SKILLS:

• Spanish/English Bilingual
• Excellent data entry skills with attention to detail
• Excellent grammar and spelling skills
• Excellent communication skills including ability to speak with outside vendors in a professional manner
• Ability to use all tools provided for research
• Ability to multi-task
• Familiarity with the Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Outlook and Excel
• Highly organized and motivated to excel
• Works well in a team environment
• Solid analytical, technical, and problem solving skills
• Self-motivated and willing to work in a fast-paced environment
• Home internet speeds - General User Minimum Requirement:15 mb download / 2 mb upload General User Recommended: 25 mb download / 5 mb upload (when temporarily working from home during the pandemic)

DESIRED JOB SKILLS:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, and Search Engines
• Type 40+ words per minute