Coordinator, Publicity ABC News

Coordinator, Publicity ABC News

The publicity coordinator supports the SVP President of ABC News, Corp. Comms and Publicity and the broader team on day-to-day operations of the comms department. This position reports into the SVP, Corp Comms & Publicity.

Responsibilities include providing administrative support to the SVP, including managing travel and overall schedule, setting meetings, and other relevant duties. This role will serve a point for certain departmental functions such as:

• Maintaining subscriptions for team
• Managing vacation calendar
• Collecting and creating press release schedule for leadership
• Monitoring and pulling together daily clips to be sent to the entire organization and other departmental functions for the team.

The role will also encompass assisting in the publicity efforts for ABC News' programs and platforms, including:

• Monitoring, compiling and distributing press coverage/clips
• Participate in helping plan and staff key, premiere events, both internal and external, such as debates, special events, screenings, press receptions, affiliate presentations and more
• Compiling media lists
• Help back up others in maintaining correspondents, anchor and executive bios annually
• Assist as needed on awards submissions
• Processing invoices and payments for SVP
• Serve as the point of contact for payroll.

Candidates should possess very strong written and verbal communication skills, organizational and administrative skills, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure news environment. Candidate must be able to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion. Over time, opportunity to learn how to pitch media, on specific programming efforts.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years' experience in executive or media setting or related field.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment, high-pressure news environment.
• Desire and commitment to take on increasingly greater levels of responsibility.
• The ability to prioritize as well as multitask is extremely important.
• Professionalism, discretion and integrity a must.
• Candidates should possess strong written and verbal communication skills, organizational and administrative skills.
• Candidate must be able to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
• Willingness to work overtime with short notice, as news dictates.
• Must work well under pressure.
• Demonstrated organizational skills.
• Superior attention to detail.
• Ability to successfully coordinate multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Preferred Qualifications:

• Existing knowledge of the television business and industry experience.

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $55,200 to $75,900 per year based on a 40 hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.