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EXAMPLES OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Must be capable of performing duties of both the Television Instructional Specialist (position 0833) and Multimedia Producer/Director (position 6920), including TV producing, researching, writing, casting of talent, conducting interviews, directing, photographing and editing television programs. Also must be able to produce webcasts and to encode TV productions for streaming media and prepare captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences. In addition, must be able to: 2. Research and prepare written analysis on selected topics identified by the Director of Communication and ITV Supervisor. Provides research on technology adoption/purchases, management best practices and benchmarking. Keep current on research and educational societal trends, to help identify opportunities for making ITV products easier to access and use. 3. Work with the Instructional Television Program Director to coordinate the identification, evaluation and procurement of instructional TV programming purchased from outside vendors, according to MCPS Evaluation and Selection standards. Research and recommend new programming strategies and directions for ITV. 4. Assess informational needs of English Language Learner families. Devise and implement strategies for increasing ITV outreach to foreign language communities. 5. Advise MCPS administration and other public, education and governmental video channels, in the means of adapting documents and multimedia video programs to a multilingual environment. Participate in MCPS foreign language emergency response team. Represent ITV on MCPS or other committees where foreign language programming is discussed. 6. Provide consultative assistance to various MCPS offices, schools and departments, with respect to multilingual communication, closed/open captioning, video-on-demand, and other forward-looking instructional technologies. 7. Review and evaluate new software and hardware products. Advise ITV and other MCPS staff on technology purchases. 8. Coordinate selected Instructional TV outreach activities. These include TV program production and distribution, surveys and focus groups. 9. Coordinate stakeholder surveys, focus groups and advisory committees to obtain input regarding Instructional TV programming and operations. 10. Acquire and update knowledge on legal issues involving the production and distribution of TV programming. 11. Seek and manage grant funding for ITV projects, in consultation with MCPS Grants Specialist. 12. Manage MCPS ITV program selection and submissions for instructional television and media competitions. 13. Serve as a competition judge where appropriate. 14. Participate in creation of job advertisements for vacant ITV positions and submit these to professional publications. 15. Engage in personal development activities to maintain currency with industry-wide best practices. 16. Perform other related work as required by the Instructional TV Supervisor or Director of Communications. 17. Performs related duties as required.
This description may be changed at any time.