Quality Control - Media Specialist

About Al-Ain News

Al-Ain News is a multilingual digital news platform under IMI, providing continuous coverage of regional and international events. It offers breaking news, live updates, insightful analysis, opinions, explainers, and video content. Available in Arabic, it caters to audiences across various regions through its editorial teams and regional bureaus.

Role Overview

This position is responsible for ensuring the technical quality of media content throughout its lifecycle including ingesting, mastering, versioning, and archiving, while promptly addressing technical complications and maintaining strict metadata and version control.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the entire process of media ingestion, quality assurance, mastering, versioning, and archiving.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot technical problems related to media files.
• Maintain accurate naming conventions, metadata, logging, retention policies, and ease of retrieval.
• Ensure consistent version control on all deliverables to meet production standards.

Qualifications and Skills

• Demonstrated relevant professional experience in media quality control or broadcasting.
• Highly organized, detail-focused, and capable of meeting strict daily deadlines.
• In-depth understanding of video file formats, codecs, container types, frame rates, aspect ratios, audio processing, captions, and metadata standards.
• Proficiency in mastering, transcoding, and encoding video content.
• Experience working with Adobe Premiere and Media Encoder.
• Familiarity with DaVinci Resolve is considered advantageous.
• Strong capabilities in data management and digital media archiving.
• Fluency in both Arabic and English languages is mandatory.