Advance Local is hiring: Multimedia Content Creator, HS Sports in Iselin

Job Description

Strengthening and empowering all of the communities we serve.

NJ Advance Media is seeking a dynamic Multimedia Content Creator to join our industry-leading High School Sports team. In this role, you'll help drive NJ.com's off-site audience growth, elevate sponsorable products, and reach the next generation of sports fans - especially student-athletes - on the platforms they use every day. You'll have the opportunity to experiment with format, tone and style to gain an understanding of what resonates with younger audiences.

We're looking for a multimedia creator with on-air presence who can report, host, produce, announce, and innovate across multiple platforms - a digitally fluent storyteller who thrives in front of and behind the camera, and is adaptable, collaborative, and passionate about telling great stories in new ways.

If you have a strong reporting background, proven experience building relationships, breaking news, and providing evaluation and analysis essential for NJ.com's signature rankings plus are comfortable hosting podcasts, appearing on camera, contributing to livestreams, and producing engaging short-form content for social platforms, we want to hear from you!

The base salary range is $55,000 - $60,000 per year.

This job requires reliable transportation to meet with sources or cover events.

What you'll be doing:

• Report on a designated high school sport each season as part of a collaborative team

• Produce timely, accurate, and compelling content, including breaking news, features, previews, rankings, and analysis

• Build strong relationships with coaches, athletes, families, and the HS sports community

• Serve as host and producer of NJ.com's weekly high school sports podcasts, building rundowns, and developing themes to shape the show's editorial identity

• Coordinate with reporters, editors, managers, social producers, and guests to reach younger audiences

• Act as play-by-play announcer for NJ.com's live-streamed high school sports broadcasts, collaborating with producers, camera operators, and color analysts

• Provide pregame insights, storylines, and context to enhance broadcasts for audiences and sponsors

• Create video optimized for NJ.com's branded social platforms

• Experiment with interviews, roundtables, breakdowns, on-site segments, and new formats

• Identify opportunities for new content series, verticals, and formats to drive growth across YouTube, audio platforms, social media, and emerging channels

Our ideal candidate will have the following:

• A minimum of 2 years' experience reporting on high school sports (or similar competitive environments)

• Strong news judgment and the ability to generate compelling story ideas

• On-air experience (podcasting, livestreams, video hosting)

• Experience with digital-forward techniques (short-form video, social-first content, storytelling threads, live updates)

• Ability to work quickly, accurately, and creatively under deadlines

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• A passion for innovation in sports storytelling

Additional Information

Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, mental health support options, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a competitive 401(k) plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to support your work/life balance, optional legal assistance, life insurance options, as well as flexible holidays to honor cultural diversity.

NJ Advance Media is a part of Advance Local Media, one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 52+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com .

NJ Advance Media is a company positioned for the future. We embrace the rapidly evolving digital landscape and are committed to developing new solutions across current and emerging media to help advertisers grow their businesses. In addition to flexible advertising opportunities with powerful media vehicles that we represent, we offer custom digital solutions from web and mobile site development, to a sophisticated array of search and social media optimization and targeted display solutions to reach audiences on all platforms.

Our focus is on developing a real-time approach to reporting news, sports and entertainment content for consumption across all platforms and devices throughout New Jersey and Easton, PA. On nj.com and lehighvalleylive.com, we ensure the communities we serve have 24/7 access to the news and information that's most relevant locally, regionally and beyond. Our quality journalism and in-depth coverage is provided locally in The Star-Ledger, The Times of Trenton, South Jersey Times and The Express-Times.

Advance Local Media is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Advance Local Media does not provide sponsorship for work visas or employment authorization in the United States. Only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered for this position.