Rights Coordinator

We also acknowledge the unique contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples make to our society and our workplace through their enduring and continued connection to land, sea, sky and community.

**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 reach of content while complying with copyright and rights restrictions and obligations.

**The Role**

The Rights Coordinator '“ NITV Content is responsible for a range of administrative tasks relating to content produced in-house by NITV to support television broadcast and streaming on SBS On Demand.

Reporting to the Rights Management Manager, this role will see you;
- Work closely with NITV production and business teams to coordinate the collection of rights and other production information
- Interpret agreements with third party producers and other rights holders to identify rights
- Data entry of production and rights data to IBMS
- Register NITV copyright claims with Screenrights
- Regularly run database reports to check NITV rights data accuracy
- Manage approvals of NITV internal productions and Indigenous News and Current Affairs productions music cue sheets in Soundmouse

**About you**
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- An understanding of Indigenous Cultural Protocol and the ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
- Experience working with databases using a high level of accuracy
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite particularly Excel
- Working knowledge of intellectual property rights in a media or content environment is desirable
- Experience using Operative IBMS 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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