Rights Data and Research Assistant

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**About Us**
SBS is one of the world's most unique and innovative media organisations, producing trusted, meaningful and engaging content that exists for all Australians to inspire, support and celebrate the diversity of our multicultural society.
Our purpose, for the last 40 years, has reflected and explored the evolving diversity of Australia, investing in initiatives to deepen its connections with communities, sharing their stories and giving a voice to those often unheard, with the aim of increasing understanding and respect of the differences that make up Australia.
SBS is a truly distinctive network, showcasing multicultural, multilingual and First Nations stories otherwise untold in the Australian media.
**The Department**
The Rights Management team sits within the Legal division and supports SBS to maximise the value and reach of content through the provision of well-established rights and licensing services.
A key focus is overseeing the entry and management of rights and restrictions information for audio-visual program content in SBS’s broadcast management system, IBMS, and other databases which hold SBS rights assets. This supports the smooth delivery of SBS content to audiences.
The Rights Management team also provides rights advice and content licensing clearance services to internal production teams.
**The Role**
We are seeking a Rights Data and Research Assistant to support SBS to achieve and maintain high level rights data integrity across SBS databases.
Reporting into the Rights Management Manager, in this role you will;
- Read and interpret contracts and program records for rights information
- Use established procedures and guidelines to identify rights issues in SBS databases prior to delivery of content on SBS platforms
- Enter rights and other related metadata into SBS systems
- Research and resolve rights related issues, such as copyright ownership conflicts
- Provide an ongoing ‘cleanse on demand’ of rights and restrictions data in our rights management databases

**About you**
- Experience working with database systems using a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including working with large datasets in Excel
- Experience working in a media and/or content environment is preferred
- Working knowledge of intellectual property rights in a content environment is desirable
- Experience using Operative IBMS Broadcast Management System will be advantageous

Feel like you meet most, but perhaps not all the criteria listed? Then, send through your detail as whilst we have specific requirements in mind we can look at how we can bridge the gaps

**Some of the reasons to consider working with us**
- The people a genuine sense of feeling included (we truly celebrate and welcome difference) and being part of one of the most inclusive companies in Australia
- The culture and the engagement of our workforce, we are proud to have an employee engagement score of 82% with low levels of employee turnover.
- A brand that is not only recognisable but trusted and established, we have been broadcasting for over 40 years and we’re not done yet
- We offer a range of benefits from, health care checks, salary packaging, Employee Assistance Programme, flexible work arrangements and for our Sydney based employee’s free gym membership
- We also love to promote from within we have allocated funds to do just that and help with training gaps when moving from role to role.

For other opportunities within our organisation please visit our careers website SBS Careers - Working at SBS

**Reasonable adjustments**
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