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About us

Groovy Gecko, webcasting pioneers need YOU! We're looking to recruit a Live Webcasting Project Manager/Production Coordinator to help us support our expanding client base. Groovy Gecko, established in 1999, is one of the pioneers of live and on-demand streaming services in the UK and Europe working with over 350 clients around the world including Clients include Amazon, O2, Nike, YouTube, GHD, XBox, Cancer Research, Facebook, UEFA, Universal Music and Warner Brothers. Working both from our offices in Old Street and remotely, this position would suit a confident and capable individual looking to develop their career by taking on new challenges with a growing agency leading its field, whilst being a key member of a dynamic and committed team.

The Role 💻

You will be reporting to the Project Management Team Leader and working as part of the webcasting and project team. This exciting role will see you have a wide focus on corporate, social and broadcast clients. Working on a really wide range of projects from experiential, film premieres, music performances to large scale corporate. To fulfil the role the successful candidate will need to be highly organised, responsive and capable of running multiple projects simultaneously. You will be addicted to those live 'butterflies' and be at ease at managing multiple live projects and productions with tight time-frames. You will also appreciate that keeping detailed documentation and excellent communication is key to success of our productions.

You will also bring experience of live production management (real world or virtual) to the team and liaise with internal teams and 3rd parties to be ultimately responsible for successful webcast delivery.

Person Specification

The successful Project Manager job applicant will have brilliant people skills, turning any issues into learnings and coming up with solutions to put clients at ease. They'll be proactive, have a great phone manner, with a dynamic, go-getting attitude. They will work well individually and as part of a team. They should be a punctual individual, with the ability to meet deadlines and have methodical administration skills of the highest standard.

The ideal candidate will preferably be a graduate (or similar qualification) and have at least two years’ experience as a Production Coordinator/Project manager working on live productions or running the live elements of webcasts. You will be adept at performing repeat processes for multiple events, whilst developing good relationships with each client you work with.

This role’s responsibilities include:

• Providing project management for live events and projects. Taking responsibility for the delivery of projects and handing back to the account team post project.
• Managing the internal personnel and external supplier resourcing for projects.
• Being responsible for the project documentation, using project management tools and shared resources.
• Keeping up with assigned company admin within agreed time limits.
• Ensuring projects are delivered to scope, and where scope drifts communicating back to the account team thus adhering to our ISO quality improvement methodology.
• Supporting the sales team with scoping new projects.
• Be able to perform on-site production recces, source and book crews in the UK and Overseas, configure and test webcast pages, coordinate and deliver on-site rehearsals, in-house. monitoring of webcast rehearsals and live events, and prepare and manage live and on-demand content for webcasts.

Key Skills & Knowledge Required:

• 2-3 years’ experience as a production coordinator/manager
• Have a thorough knowledge of online video and how it works
• Have excellent knowledge of live and pre-recorded events
• Have an excellent understanding of video production
• A growing book of contacts for crew’s world wide
• Be able to effectively manage their own time and priorities
• Excellent client handling skills
• Have some experience of quoting, managing budgets and delivering to tight timescales
• Be computer literate, knowing how to quickly and precisely use MS office
• Show initiative and have a positive, “can do” attitude
• Be proactive and work together with management to continually improve our processes, help us innovate and increase customer success

There may be some unsociable working hours as is the nature of supporting international brands and live events along with occasional UK travel.

If you fit the candidate profile above and would like to be considered for the role, please send your Covering letter and CV online to info@www.groovygecko.com Please note: you must already have existing eligibility to work in the UK.

This company is an equal opportunities employer and adheres to best practice guidelines from HSE in the combat of Covid-19. Employment agencies' correspondence will be treated as SPAM under GDPR guideline.

About us

Groovy Gecko, webcasting pioneers need YOU! We're looking to recruit a Live Webcasting Project Manager/Production Coordinator to help us support our expanding client base. Groovy Gecko, established in 1999, is one of the pioneers of live and on-demand streaming services in the UK and Europe working with over 350 clients around the world including Clients include Amazon, O2, Nike, YouTube, GHD, XBox, Cancer Research, Facebook, UEFA, Universal Music and Warner Brothers. Working both from our offices in Old Street and remotely, this position would suit a confident and capable individual looking to develop their career by taking on new challenges with a growing agency leading its field, whilst being a key member of a dynamic and committed team.

The Role 💻

Working from our offices in Old Street and remotely this position would suit a confident and capable individual with at least 5 years live streaming and production experience who is looking to develop their career with new challenges by joining a growing agency leading its field whilst being a key member of a dynamic and committed team.

A typical week might involve streaming live events (film premieres, car reveals, tech launches, fashion and game shows) on location to multiple Social Media platforms (Facebook, Twitch, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok); at a corporate client’s head office using Groovy Gecko’s award-winning platforms or at our London based MCR having acquired the live feed via Bonded Network, Video Conference units or our Satellite Teleport.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Live Event Webcasting, Technical Production, Broadcasting or Audio/Video Engineering, with a good understanding of current streaming technologies and platforms. Reporting to the Webcast Engineering Team Leader and working as part of the webcasting team the successful candidate will need to be addicted to those live event ‘butterflies’ and be at ease under the pressure that live event webcasting can bring.

They will love working in and building up the team with an excellent phone manner, good verbal and written communication skills and appreciate what it means to be punctual. This is a client-facing, technical webcasting role so the candidate needs to love tech, but also be a 'people' person with a professional, pro-active 'can do' attitude. Due to the nature of streaming live event some evening and weekend working will be required with occasional international travel.

Main responsibilities:

• Stream configuration and testing of webcast pages on various platforms
• In-house or remote setup and configuration of webcast equipment
• Live and on-demand testing of streams and pages
• Operation of Webcasting equipment
• Operation of Camera, Lighting and Audio equipment in a live environment.

• Good operational knowledge of VMix

• Administration of cloud / on-prem hybrid 3CX voice network

• On-site ‘Recce’ testing of Internet and 4G/5G bandwidth streaming capabilities

• Packing and transporting of equipment for use on-site

• Co-ordination and delivery of on-site rehearsals, (basic Event Management)

• Co-ordination and delivery of live webcasts

• Managing encoders, audio and video feeds, slide synchronisation, Q&A moderation and polls

• In house monitoring of webcast rehearsals and live events

• Preparation and management of on-demand content for webcasts, (video editing and transcoding)

You would ideally

• Have a good understanding of live online video streaming and how it works

• Have experience of running VIRTUAL and HYBRID EVENTS

• Effectively manage their own time and priorities

• Show initiative with a proactive and flexible approach

• Follow and have a good understanding of current video production technologies

• Have a good working knowledge of streaming technologies (OBS, VMix, Vmix Call, AWS, Wowza, Clearcasters, Streamlabs, Wirecast, MS Teams, Zoom, Bluejeans, Streamyard)

• Experience of major streaming platforms, (Akamai, AWS, Facebook, YouTube, Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, TikTok)

• Have an excellent phone manner, good communication skills; both verbal and written

• Possess good time management skills and punctuality

• Have a proven ability to think logically and troubleshoot under pressure

• Be a good Team player who can work collaboratively and contribute to the team

• Show initiative and have a positive, “can do” attitude

• Be proactive and work together with management to continually improve our processes

• Help innovate and increase customer success

• Have a good level of computer literacy (Windows, Mac, Office Suite, Adobe Premiere Pro for Editing)

• Have a good basic understanding of networking and internet streaming protocols. (RTMP, WebRTC, SRT, TCP/IP, HTTP, IP, NDI, FTP)

Our Agency 💻

We’re a fast-growing production and live streaming agency, delivering live events to millions of people every year. From working with Nike on a product launch, to filming album releases for music artists or financial results presentations for FTSE 100 companies, our clients come from a wide range of exciting industries.

Where you come in, bestie.✨

• We’re looking for an enthusiastic TikTok Strategist to join our marketing team to better show who we are on social media – Cool. Cutting Edge. Relevant. (And fun)! We need you to help us stand out and improve our brand awareness by getting our name out there! You’ll have loads of autonomy in your role, so we need someone who’s confident, enthusiastic and a self-starter who can get stuck in and crack on straight away with their plans.
• You'll run our social accounts and reporting to our Marketing Manager to develop strategies and create TikTok and IG reel videos for our brand, posting at least one TikTok / Reel every day, as well as managing our other social media accounts. Whether that’s funny videos of our office culture, showing before and afters of our recent office refurbishment, or finding interesting ways to showcase the events we work on with clients.
• You’ll also be going on-site to most of our exciting client events such as Amazon Prime show releases, charity campaigns, and press events, getting behind-the-scenes footage to create fun, interesting content. You’ll be working mostly on social events we do (B2C events that are streamed to social media), but it would be great to get someone on board who’s keen to come up with ideas for how we can talk about and promote the corporate conferences and business events we also do, in a cool, relatable way.
• You’ll assist with marketing tasks including writing blogs and case studies, which will help you understand the events and our technology better, and ultimately help you create better video content. You’ll also be in charge of reporting on social media activities and presenting data and new ideas to the Marketing Manager each month.

We could be a match made in heaven if...

• You’re extremely proactive and enthusiastic looking for autonomy in your role
• You’re a natural storyteller with excellent writing skills
• You're knowledgeable in Adobe Premiere photo and video editing
• You're used to posting on TikTok and Instagram Reels
• You know all the trending TikTok sounds, even before they blow up!
• You’re happy to spend the time it takes to build an account (posting consistently, interacting with other accounts to build following, research trending hashtags and ways to improve account following)
• You have an endless number of ideas for funny and relatable content
• You’re keen to learn about the events and tech industry
• You’re outgoing and able to get the GG team involved for videos if necessary!

Show me the benefits! 💅

You'll be working alongside a friendly group of people in a company with a start-up feel and lots of autonomy in your role! You'll also get:

• Regular socials (think pottery classes, Flight Club, mini golf)
• 24 paid holidays (plus bank holidays)
• A casual office dress code (jeans, hoodies, trainers encouraged)
• An amazing office location 5 min from Old Street Station
• Cocktail Fridays from 4pm
• Office dogs!

The first stage of the interview process is a quick phone call to chat about your experience and interests, the second stage is a casual in-person meeting, and the third stage will be preparing a TikTok video in line with our tone of voice / goals and presenting how you would improve our social media following to our Marketing Manager and Business Director.
Email marketing@www.groovygecko.com with your CV, links to your social media accounts and a bit about yourself to apply!