Music Director Job Description
Music Director Duties & Responsibilities
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Music Director Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Music Director
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Education for Music Director
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Employers hiring for the music director job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Music, Education, Music Education, Communications, Graduate, Teaching, Management, Business, Arts, Leadership
Skills for Music Director
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Desired experience for music director includes:
Music Director Examples
Music Director Job Description
- Conducts, records, and edits interviews with musical guests or other famous personalities moderating panels or discussion shows
- Plans and attends in-person appearances such as community events that include hosting and assisting at charity functions
- Maintains and builds a positive cooperative attitude within station departments and maintains strong personable community involvement
- Performs additional duties such as production, assisting program director, operating radio transmitter or writing advertising copy
- Attends music meetings
- Manages talent scheduling and fills in as-needed
- Maintains positive relationships with national & local music communities
- As the key business driver and ambassador in the Music for Business segment, this individual will spend a significant amount of time working in the field with existing VAR’s developing new leads and will be required to travel
- Leverage industry relationships and contacts to recruit top talent for the editorial team and identify partnership opportunities with other music sites for traffic driving, content sharing
- Monitor and ensure that music supervisors are following preset guidelines such as making sure fees are negotiated properly, songs are cleared according to Warner Bros
- Voice-track as required for Country 105, Energy 99.7, and 91.9 BOB FM
- Day to day music scheduling for Country 105
- Daily and weekly Cancon reports
- Ongoing communication with record companies
- Voice commercials on a daily basis
- Represent the station by making regular public appearances in the community
Music Director Job Description
- Leveraging Scrum and other Agile approaches to facilitate cross-team delivery
- Working with Product Management and Technology to perform discovery, estimation, prioritization and documentation
- Managing a staff of 2-4 Project Managers (staff and consultant) and assigning them appropriately
- Mentoring project management staff and conducting performance evaluations
- Reviewing and approving staff, contract, and freelancer timesheets
- Creating and propagating processes for tracking delivery across multiple projects
- Assuring that all team members understand and accept their roles and responsibilities
- Establishing and enforcing change control and risk mitigation processes
- Ensuring all required data for making Program-level decisions is complete and readily available
- Distributing project and program information to executive management, project teams, and other key stakeholders
- Must possess a thorough understanding of how to prep a show for target audiences
- Must be a motivated team player, who takes direction well and has excellent organizational and communication skills and the ability to multi-task
- Experience with Music Master is required
- Experience with Wide Orbit Automation, and other radio skills a strong asset
- Minimum of 7 years prior experience working in the areas of music clearance, music publishing, publishing administration, music supervision, and / or music copyright
- Must have thorough knowledge of music clearance procedures related to the TV/Film Industry
Music Director Job Description
- Evaluating project success and reporting back to Music group stakeholders on success criteria met
- Managing relationships with the Business, PMO, VMO and Technical Management
- Promulgating PMO project management processes
- Reviews episodic and pilot scripts to determine the needs related to on and off-camera musician and singer performances
- Participates in the selection and hiring of musicians and singers for on and off-camera sessions
- Handles on and off-camera sideline and recording sessions (days, hours, type of session, actual work done, ) as it relates to the music contact (composer/music producer if off-site recording session)
- Handles all aspects of hire paperwork process
- Researches and evaluates New Use claims brought by AFM, SAG, and AFTRA
- Works with the Legal Department and Labor Relations department to evaluate language in various union agreements concerning re-use of musical performances and ensures that SAG/AFTRA New Use payments are pre-negotiated with vocalists when the shows use feature and television vocal score soundtracks that were originally recorded under the SAG/AFTRA agreement
- Handles special projects that relate to the overall Music administrative function
- Must be able to communicate effectively and tactfully with Producers, Directors, Publishers, Writers, Lawyers and all levels of personnel
- Must be able to read, interpret and negotiate Synchronization and Master Use agreements
- In-depth knowledge of publishers, composer, public domain music, and the like
- Knowledge of Music Supervision beneficial
- Must have knowledge of Word, Excel, and Microsoft Access
- 5+ years Production Finance experience with a successful track record
Music Director Job Description
- Provide support to Worldwide Marketing and Publicity departments in all matters relating to music clearance for new marketing strategies pertaining to current television product provide clearance advice and services for music contained in publicity and marketing clips and/or pilots requiring clearance for marketing campaigns prior to air
- Review and finalize all licensing agreements issued by third parties
- Sets licensing guidelines and negotiates rights for all third party Main Title theme songs used in WBTV and Warner Horizon product
- Responsible for structuring, negotiating, and continually updating all form music licensing agreements with all music publishing companies and record companies, covering third-party music used in WBTV and Warner Horizon TV project releases
- Set-up and maintain effective follow-up system for outstanding licenses, track all licenses to ensure final execution by all parties in a timely manner, and input license information into department database
- Train and supervise Licensing Coordinator in the process of securing third party signatures on all licenses distribute fully executed copies to all necessary parties
- Book bands & coordinate all the logistics for the Paramount Music Dept
- Works under the direction of the Assistant Dean for Admission, Financial Aid and Graduate Services, along with performance and academic faculty, to implement recruitment strategies, meet enrollment goals, and support admission policies and practices
- Grow, mentor, and empower the team to execute on the strategy
- Be responsible for the overall product roadmap, go-to-market, and delivery of high quality innovative products that meet or exceed market expectations, delivery schedule, and cost targets
- Ability to instill trust
- 5 years music contracting or other related experience
- AFM/SAG/AFTRA contract application required
- Experience in accounting/budgeting required, especially in television production
- Knowledge of Accounts Payable and Payroll
- Knowledge of SAG and SAG/AFTRA terms for singers and of AFM terms for musicians
Music Director Job Description
- Make smart and timely decisions
- Think ahead and troubleshoot
- Create, develop and maintain relationships with advertising agencies and brands music supervisors
- Creating a topical and engaging morning show for Adults 25-54
- Building and maintaining a brand for the morning show and station
- Become a part of the community (and not just with station appearances)
- Maintain company and station policies, procedures, goals and guiding principles
- Scheduling music daily in accordance with CTRC/SOCAN guidelines
- Contribute to a winning team attitude while taking a leadership role on and off-air
- Voice Track other shifts as required
- Ability to work with minimum supervision, to set own priorities and to track own deadlines
- Must be organized and maintain files, both hard copy and computerized accurately, for reference and audit purposes
- Minimum of 8-10 years prior experience working in the areas of music clearance, music pitching and supervision
- In-depth knowledge of music clearance and licensing, song placement, union/guild rates and guidelines
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of company and department personnel, producers, directors, publishers, record company executives, composers, and attorneys
- Ability to relate well with staff and maintain a well organized and productive department