Media Management Assistant (Video Production)

Closing Date of Applications - 01/01/2025

*Please ensure a CV is attached to your application to be considered for the role

Our Story

Manchester City is an English Premier League club whose roots began in East Manchester. From its first incarnation as St Mark’s West Gorton in 1880, the club became Manchester City FC in 1894. Behind each title lies emotion, moments and memories that resonate with millions of supporters around the world. Manchester City fans are known for their commitment and togetherness, as a Club that fights to the end.

The Media Management Assistant will be responsible for managing a diverse range of media assets in a fast paced media production team. Working with the Post Production Lead, they will implement and maintain post-production workflows and best practices going forward. Tasks will include ingesting, logging/tagging media using metadata, monitoring and managing storage (Servers, Iconik cloud storage etc), transcoding media, sourcing and sharing media on request.

Our Winning Team

MCFC is built on a vision for sustainability, with an academy structure designed to support long-term first team success, to engagement with the communities in which we reside. Together with our passionate fans and valued network of partners, we are developing Manchester City’s future history.

This is Your City

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts. 

Your Impact

1. Media Asset Management: The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a diverse range of media assets in a fast paced media production team. Working with the Post Production Lead, they will implement and maintain post-production workflows and best practices going forward. Tasks will include ingesting, logging/tagging media using metadata, monitoring and managing storage (Servers, Iconik cloud storage etc), transcoding media, sourcing and sharing media on request.
2. Team collaboration & workflow alignment: Work alongside Video Editors, Producers and other stakeholders to ensure the whole team are aligned on how we remain organized to ensure assets can be found and interacted with efficiently. Create documentation and training materials when needed to ensure consistency in media management workflows across the team.
3. Quality control & regular audits: Conduct regular quality control checks to ensure the media team are remaining compliant with established practices and workflows to remain consistent. Collaborate with content creators to resolve any issues and continually strive to improve media processes. Ensure consistency in best practices in media handling, naming conventions and metadata usage.
4. Long term media preservation & accessibility: Implement and maintain strategies for the long term preservation of media assets in our archives to ensure that useful assets can be easily found in the future regardless of who created the content.
5. Stay informed on industry best practices: Keep up-to-date with evolving industry trends and best practices in the wider media production world, to make sure that we as a department are working as efficiently and effectively as possible. Proactively suggest and implement improvements to ensure that the department operates as efficiently as possible.

What we are looking for

Essential

• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Previous experience of managing/organising media assets (Video rushes, Audio, Images, graphics etc).
• Previous experience of using metadata to log media assets.
• Ability to adapt to evolving technology and industry trends.

Desirable

• Knowledge of media asset management systems (Iconik or similar).
• Knowledge of AI-Powered asset management (for example WSC Sports)
• Technical knowledge of video codecs, bitrates, frame rates and other technical specifications.
• Experience of working within the sport media industry.
• Strong interest and knowledge of football, particularly Manchester City.
• Language skills – Spanish, French, Portuguese.
• Degree in Media, Television production or similar.
• Experience with Adobe software, particularly Premiere Pro and Media Encoder.
• Experience of implementing and managing successful media management workflows.
• Basic video editing skills/experience.