On-Air Planning Placement London 2024

Are you looking to get into TV?

As an On-Air Planning Intern with A+E Networks EMEA, you’ll learn the full end to end broadcast process, working with a vast array of departments across multiple countries. As a key member of the Presentation & Continuity teams, you’ll gain insight into the media industry and come away with the knowledge and experience to further your career in a wide range of directions. This role is the perfect opportunity to dive into the exciting world of Television.

This role is suited to students looking to start their placement year in Summer 2024. Please scroll to the end for application timeline details.

What does the role entail?

Working across the Presentation & Continuity teams as an On-Air Planning Intern involves the creative and accurate scheduling of all broadcast presentation elements: promotions, sponsorship, graphics, voiceover announcements and channel branding. You will plan On-Air Navigational components, writing voiceovers for brand new shows, and liaising with voiceover artists. The objective of navigation is to increase viewership and aid retention across our channels in the UK and Internationally.

The Presentation team complete daily schedules by gathering all the necessary broadcast elements from across the business and providing them to Playout at the end of the day, and the London team collaborate and support our international offices in Germany, Italy, Poland and South Africa. Presentation Scheduling requires the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team. Therefore a keen eye for detail with a passion for TV is a must. The work requires regular liaising with multiple departments, so good communication skills are also key.

In the Continuity team you will strategize and generate on-air graphic excel plans, ensuring all graphics and voiceovers are available for the scheduling team that will navigate the viewer to prime spots amongst our channels. You will have the opportunity to write scripts for our voiceover artists, to help keep our viewers engaged and spread the message of our brand-new commissions coming in 2024.

About us

At A+E Networks EMEA, we welcome talented candidates with infectious enthusiasm who love what they do, and are ready to learn, develop and thrive. Here you’ll find a community of innovative, creative and inspiring people who aren’t afraid to embrace responsibility and try new things collaboratively, as a team.

Every employee has a voice and is encouraged to be themselves and be ambitious. With offices in Rome, Madrid, London, Warsaw, Munich and Johannesburg, we are a truly international organisation that celebrates difference and diversity.

We share stories that matter, inspiring and exciting our audiences with hit franchises (The Curse of Oak Island), must-see dramas (Paris Police 1900 and Colosseum), and original commissions (The Hunt for Baltic Gold and Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter). Over the past few years we’ve championed our own original programming and relished in the successes of recent series’ such as Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman, The First 48 and Royal Mob.

We are a certified Great Place to Work® with a can-do, motivated culture that believes in working to live, not just living to work.

This role will be based in the London office working on exciting, award-winning brands like Sky HISTORY and Crime+Investigation. We work 2 days from the office, with the option to work 3 days a week from home.

Key responsibilities

In our On-Air Planning Intern role, you will gain experience with the following:

• The provision of accurate and creative schedules to Playout in a timely manner while maintaining a thorough understanding of their individual requirements and all associated services.
• Assisting with creating script grids and delivery of navigation assets.
• Liaising with and preparing Voice Over Artists for self-op sessions.
• Strategizing for monthly makelists / continuity plans.
• Supporting Playout and collaborating to remedy On-Air issues.
• Implementing airtime strategy that has been set in collaboration with the Media Planning team. Understanding and interpreting promotional ratings to best effect. This will require you to attend allocation and commissioning meetings as well as viewing all promotional and branding material prior to them airing.
• Gaining a good knowledge of the channels, technology and operations required to perform your duties, and acting as a resource for others to support their learning.
• Consistently identifying, prioritizing and dealing with incidents in a timely and professional manner by implementing the appropriate fix.
• Escalating problems in the required timescales and via the most effective route, retaining ownership of the issues, promptly carrying out follow up analysis when needed.
• Taking the initiative to pass on information and updates, providing and receiving training when required.
• Effectively managing late programme, continuity and promotional changes.
• Acting to support less experienced colleagues in the execution of their duties as required and, when requested, to better develop the strengths of the team.
• Playing a key role in the accurate attachment and resolution of issues with templates to ensure maximum minutage for Sky Media, thus playing a vital role in generating revenue.
• Increasing your knowledge and understanding of key stakeholder teams such as Playout, Media Planning, Programme Planning, Creative, and Compliance.

Person specification

We are looking for someone who has / is:

• Completing a university sandwich course with a requirement for an industry placement.
• Able to consistently produce work to a high standard of accuracy.
• Excellent communication skills (to liaise with other departments and convey information clearly).
• Ability to work to fixed deadlines.
• Ability to calculate basic time equations.
• Microsoft software knowledge.
• Demonstrable ability to complete work to a high level of accuracy within a required time frame.
• TV or media brand interests.

Desirable qualities

• Passion for TV.
• Team player who can add value to a proactive team.
• High attention to detail.

Eligibility

• Must be an undergraduate student in a sandwich year course, due to start their placement year in Summer 2024 and to return to study in Autumn 2025.
• Must have the right to work in the UK already in place.

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button and include the following in your cover letter:

• That you are an undergraduate student studying on a sandwich course and;
• In no more than 100 words, please tell us about a project you’re most proud of.
• Please note, applications without a covering letter will not be considered.

Application timeline

• Applications open until 31 st Dec.
• First Round – Assessment days will take place 8 th / 15 th / 22 nd of Jan (depending on exam periods).
• Second Round – Final interviews will take place w/c 29 th of Jan.
• Offer will be made w/c 12 th Feb.