Media Center Coordinator

Job

Media Center Coordinator Reporting to the Senior Associate Director of the Sloate Media Center, the Media Center Coordinator will work as a member of the Media Center team to serve the teaching, learning, and scholarship needs at Barnard as they relate to media services. In particular, the Coordinator will oversee the operations of the Media Center Equipment Room, and assist with running the Production studio and Post-production computer lab, both by utilizing their own expertise and drawing upon the knowledge available on the team.

Our team operates the Sloate Media Center at Barnard College, a historically women’s undergraduate liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in the city of New York. We provide academic and extracurricular support for learning media skills and content creation on Barnard’s campus; working closely with students, staff, and faculty to make technical media and production skill learning accessible to the community at large.

Below are some of the programs and services our team provides. Please note that we function as a team, and all team members including the Coordinator collaborate to provide these services - sometimes by taking the lead, and sometimes by supporting others.

• Maintain and operate our essential spaces that support media production on campus.

  • Our equipment room lends out audio, photo, video equipment and employs a team of undergraduate student workers.

  • Our bookable Media production studio is outfitted with backdrops, lighting, a single occupancy audio booth, and other production equipment.

  • Our open use post-production computer lab has Mac computers with Adobe creative suite, as well as a dedicated color grading station with Davinci Resolve studio.

• Collaborate with faculty to support courses by providing technical workshops on podcasting, video production techniques, media editing, and related topics.

• Ideate, develop, and execute student-facing programming:

  • Hands‑on workshops where we teach media skills (recent examples include DSLR Portrait Photography, Creative Lighting for the Camera, and Audio Production on Set.)

  • Film screenings, often with filmmakers participating.

  • Talks and panels with media professionals.

• Document academic events on campus through videography & photography services.

• Run the Emerging Filmmaker Mentorship Program (EFMP), which includes:

  • hands‑on workshops for pre‑production, production, and post‑production.

  • reviewing applications and selecting mentees.

  • coordinating and distributing grant funds.

  • supporting mentees through the entire filmmaking process from pre to post production.

  • showcasing mentees’ finished work at the Athena Film Festival.

• Collaborate with other centers and departments on initiatives and programming to further media creation/learning on campus (One example is a Podcasting Learning Community in partnership with the Center for Engaged Pedagogy.)

• Individual consultations with students, staff, and faculty for their academic or extracurricular media projects.

• Provide one‑on‑one or group training for students on media production techniques and post production softwares.

• Occasionally produce videos for special academic projects with a variety of campus partners.

The role of the Media Center Coordinator includes:

• Manage the equipment room
  , which fulfills over 1,000 checkouts to over 500 unique patrons per academic year. Hire, schedule, train, and manage 12‑16 student workers. Oversee the repair and replacement of equipment and manage inventory. Assess equipment room needs and necessary upgrades. Coordinate with vendors for equipment demos. Strategize around long term planning for media equipment needs for the College based on current and emerging trends, partnered course needs, greater institutional needs, and fiscal year budget allocations.
  
  Act as service lead for equipment room system (currently Web Checkout) and provide training on software to colleagues within and outside of our department (60%).

• Assist with managing the Media Production Studio and Post‑production lab
  . Working with the Senior Associate Director and Media Specialist, manage staffing…