Audio / Video Services Manager

Bethel College has an opening for a full-time Manager of Audio and Video Services on campus.

Reports to: Director of Everest/Rohrer

Classification: Exempt

Role:

The Manager of Audio/Video Services is to provide excellent service, oversight and management for audio and video needs of the University. This position is responsible for supervising, training, and developing the student staff. The duties include set up, operation of audio and video equipment, budgeting, design and upgrading new and current systems, and assisting the Director of the Everest/Rohrer.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• 30% Manage and direct audio/video needs of college events
• 25% Run Audio/video for events
• 10% Assist Director of the Everest/Rohrer
• 10% Maintain budget, research, purchase and advise supervisor of new equipment.
• 10% Hire, train, schedule and supervise student workers.
• 10% Maintain and organize Audio/Video equipment.
• 5% Other duties as assigned.

Performance Measurements:

• Exemplify and promote a strong costumer service environment.
• Select appropriate audio/video setups for events.
• Maintain audio and video equipment and keep in a clean and organized manner.
• Work with departments and outside contacts with excellence and in a courteous and professional manner.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently and as a collaborative team.
• Ability to multi-task and assign duties.
• Serve as a Christian role model for students and other employees.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced deadline-oriented environment while fulfilling the customer service requirements of the position.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Experience

• Two or more years of professional audio/video experience.

Education

• A college degree

Interpersonal Skills

• Courtesy, tact, and diplomacy

Other Skills

• Experience in managing projects and creative personnel.
• Extensive experience with mixing / engineering sound for performing arts (theatre, worship and choral music).
• Extensive experience with digital consoles.
• Excellent technical knowledge in setting up systems, components, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of lighting, multi-media and rigging.
• Strong customer service skills and professional manner to successfully build and maintain positive customer relations and provide quality service.
• Ability to maintain yearly budget and new audio and/or video projects budgets.
• Knowledge and experience with studio and live recording environments.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift 65lb over head and lift 100lb
• Stand and walk for long periods of time.

Work Environment

• Outside and inside
• On call 24 hours a day for assigned area
• Works days, weekends, split shifts, early mornings and late nights.
• At times 16 or more hours per day

About Bethel University

The mission of Bethel University, affiliated with the Missionary Church denomination, is to be a community of learners building lives of commitment for leadership in the Church and world. Bethel's liberating academic programs challenge the mind, enlarge the vision, and equip the whole person for lifelong service.

Launched in 1947, Bethel is urban situated in the northern Indiana region hosting 250,000 residents, seven colleges (including Notre Dame), the 2nd largest shopping district in the state of Indiana, 15,000 businesses, 50 parks, and beautiful riverwalk developments in South Bend and Mishawaka. Resort venues on Lake Michigan are 45 minutes away. The university community is composed of about 1,500 traditional and adult/graduate students from 35 states, 90 students born outside the United States, and 225 full-time employees. Bethel also hosts more than 8,000 guests annually to arts productions, 25,000 annually in conference services, and many thousands of community members in support of 40 national athletic championships.

Bethel's 20,000 alumni occupy 49 states and 64 world areas and enjoy a medical school acceptance rate double the national average, 100% job placement rate in Nursing whose program was ranked No. 7 in the United States, a Top 4% finish nationally in competitive math performance tests, and 100% pass rate every year on the national performance standard for a unique academic major in American Sign Language.

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Bethel University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, sex, disability, national or ethnic origin in employment opportunities, in keeping with applicable state and federal laws. In keeping with the mission of the institution, Bethel University seeks applicants with a strong commitment to the values and lifestyle of evangelical Christianity and who profess a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As a Christian institution, we require faculty and staff to adhere to the University's Lifestyle Covenant and to enforce a religiously based statement of responsibilities for all University employees. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Bethel University, as an educational institution operating under the auspices of the Missionary Church, reserves the right to prefer employees on the basis of religion (Title VII, Sections 702-703, United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended).