Acquisition Editor

Responsibilities : 

• Ensure high quality content through technical editing.

• Ensure that the highest standards of content editing are maintained.

• Deliver assigned files in a timely manner.

• Edit all channels and Platform content (in house production, series, movies, programs, etc), changing content formats, compiling contents, creating content for 2nd runs, as per the Group / Channel guidelines or procedures.

• Follow procedures for the defined / systematic technical editing to ensure world class quality of content. 

• Provide recommendations about cutting and technical editing alternatives.

• Ensure that the content of files meets the correct technical specifications.

• Manage equipment and identify faults.

• Able to perform all duties associated with the job title for the Company, as well as for any parent, subsidiary, sister, or affiliated entity, and any other company within the group, whether in Dubai or abroad.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Editing or related field

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in content and TV editing 

• Good technical knowledge of editing, understanding of media formats, and editing systems and graphics within each facility

• Understanding of Color Grading, and Audio mapping (Stereo, and 5.1)

• Be able to solve technical problems, and know the topology of the edit suites

• Able to identify what is acceptable for which media and broadcaster and their different technical specifications and have good understand about compression 

• Able to operate, patch and un-patch equipment, and must possess relevant computer skills in order to move media around the facility

• Customer Orientation: Able to assert clients' needs and problems, and to identify appropriate solutions

MBC GROUP is the largest and leading media company in the Middle East and North Africa, dedicated towards enriching lives through information, interaction, and entertainment.

With a rich history of growth and expansion, MBC GROUP’s first presence came to London in 1991 in the form of the private satellite TV channel, MBC1. A decade later, MBC GROUP relocated its headquarters to Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates, in 2002.

Building on its immense success in recent times, MBC GROUP proudly inaugurated its new headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in September 2022.
With a commitment to serving audiences worldwide and featuring in key markets, MBC GROUP is home to a plethora of iconic brands, departments, and entities that include TV and radio offerings, a streaming platform, production and talent houses, and more.

Today, MBC GROUP operates over 13 free-to-air TV channels and 3 radio stations, such as the flagship MBC1, as well as MBC2, MBC3, MBC4, MBC5, MBC MASR, MBC IRAQ, and MBC LOUD FM.

The Group also operates Shahid, the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform that’s home to highly rated original productions from the Arab world, a wide range of exclusive series, movies and other premieres, as well as live TV channels, sports, kids offering, international content, and more.

MBC GROUP is also home to MBC STUDIOS, a global production powerhouse, born to realize the unrivalled, untapped storytelling potential of the Middle East.

With a mission to mentor, educate, and nurture the talent of tomorrow, MBC GROUP runs MBC ACADEMY, an educational and training platform with the mission to discover, upskill, and nurture Saudi talent in the media and production space. Since its launch in 2020, MBC ACADEMY has successfully gone on to train over 18,000 individuals.