A Production Coordinator supports the day-to-day workforce planning and business operations of ESPN’s Content division. Scheduling resources, vendor & contract management, and legal & policy adherence will all be job functions this role carries out. This role will also find and create efficiencies in processes and workflows along with interacting with all types of content and leaders across our organization. This Production Coordinator position will be assigned to support the content of our international teams.

Responsibilities:

• Executes workforce planning and business operations for ESPN’s Content division.
• Works with content leaders to plan, request and allocate resources, schedule personnel and/or facilities, review time entry and expenses, track paid time off, etc.
• Analyzes content scenarios and creates plans to support initiatives while adhering to resource and financial limits and departmental processes and protocols.
• Maintains extensive knowledge of the business processes, workforce guidelines and resource planning required across assigned content areas.
• Fully understands policies and processes that guide work (Ex. T&E policy, workforce classifications, time entry). Educates, trains, and advises others on policies and processes and promotes adherence. Participates in developing and modifying policy and process.
• Partners with and functions as a liaison for various departments (Ex. Production, Operations, HR, Legal, outside entities, etc.) Attends meetings with stakeholders; represents a neutral party in discussions.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years of business, personnel, production, or operations experience.
• Strong organizational skills (Ex. budgeting time, prioritizing workload, accuracy, and attention to detail in all tasks).
• Effective communication skills (Ex. clear and concise in all forms of communication, ability to manage high-volume email, phone traffic, and in-person interactions).
• Demonstrated ability to react quickly and positively to a wide variety of sensitive production and personnel situations that arise and are subject to continual change.
• Demonstrated ability to take initiative and perform independently with some guidance from management and senior teammates (Ex. suggest ideas and solutions to problems that arise, ability to recognize when an issue is present and provide rectifying solutions).
• Experience in various aspects of resource management and business operations (Ex. processing contracts/invoices, creating/maintaining/distributing information, resource scheduling/staffing).