Senior Coordinating Producer-Meteorologist

CBS News and Stations is looking for an expert Meteorologist to take on the new position of Senior Coordinating Producer-Meteorologist for CBS News, Stations, CMV. The ideal candidate will have experience as a local on-air meteorologist, a passion for weather and a strong ability to coordinate logistics across multiple organizations.

This person will work closely with VP Weather Strategy to drive partnership between stations by promoting real-time content sharing optimize our existing and emerging weather technology investments. 

This person will work closely with teams across the organization to craft innovative weather graphics for use at all stations to better emphasize local neighborhoods and community events particularly in hot zips and other areas identified as being geographically meaningful to the station. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Help manage our multi-million-dollar weather technology portfolio.
• Partner with company technology leaders to further plan our evolution toward entirely cloud-based weather technology.
• Offer regular internal user training for technology investments.
• Implement a plan for all local weather teams to have the ability to cover breaking weather unassisted on their stream.
• Manage preparation and utilization of Max Cloud at all stations to ensure emergency or planned backup readiness at any other station.
• Ensure content redundancy and disaster recovery workflows are accurately established across the group.
• Ensure all weather professionals in the group have remote access to existing and emerging weather technology investments.
• Research the feasibility of “on call” time periods when a weather professional always has personal access to technology to ensure groundbreaking weather coverage at any time.
• Fill-in meteorologist for the group, as needed.

Qualifications:

• Must be a certified AMS and NWS meteorologist with at least 8-10 years’ experience doing daily weather forecasting, severe weather coverage.
• Skilled in creating innovative, advanced weather graphics.
• Ability to tell a comprehensive and clear weather story.
• Ability to shoot, write, and edit reports preferred.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in meteorology, science, broadcast journalism, communications, environmental studies or a related field.

This will be a union represented position.

CBS News and Stations, brings together the power of CBS News, 28 owned television stations in 17 major U.S. markets, the CBS News Streaming Network, CBS News Streaming local platforms, local websites and cbsnews.com, under one umbrella. CBS News and Stations is home to the nation’s #1 news program 60 MINUTES, the CBS News Streaming Network, the first 24/7 digital streaming news network, the award-winning broadcasts CBS MORNINGS, CBS SATURDAY MORNING, the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH NORAH O’DONNELL, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, CBS WEEKEND EVENING NEWS, 48 HOURS and FACE THE NATION WITH MARGARET BRENNAN. CBS News and Stations provides news and information for the CBS Television Network,  CBSNews.com, CBS News Radio and podcasts, Paramount +, all digital platforms, and the CBS News Streaming Network, the premier 24/7 anchored streaming news service that is available free to everyone with access to the internet. The CBS News Streaming Network is the destination for breaking news, live events, original reporting and storytelling, and programs from CBS News and Stations’ top anchors and correspondents working locally, nationally and around the globe. CBS News’ streaming services, across national and local, amassed more than 1.01 billion streams in 2021. Launched in November 2014 as CBSN, the CBS News Streaming Network is available on 30 digital platforms and apps, as well as CBSNews.com and Paramount+. The service is available live in 91 countries. CBS News and Stations is dedicated to providing the highest quality journalism under standards it pioneered and continues to set in today’s digital age. CBS News earns more prestigious journalism awards than any other broadcast news division.  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $110,400.00 - 138,000.00. 

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education.  The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable,  as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement.   

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