Title: AV Technician
Location: Bethesda, MD and/or Rockville, MD
Terms: Full-time
Clearance: Public Trust
Travel: 0-20%
Education: BA/BS degree and 5 years of experience
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Project Description
RIVA’s Federal Health customer has developed a variety of software applications that support administrative and Grants Management processes and functions. They provide directors, branch chiefs, program managers, program officers, budget officers, scientists, and administrative and support staff with software solutions and tools necessary to manage their workload, to perform daily work assignments and to quickly share, exchange and disseminate information to the appropriate staff members internal and external to their community.
RIVA is providing IT Services and Support to their customer’s CIO office, Project Management Office, Network Infrastructure Section, Service Desk Section, and the customer user community. The CIO’s office manages all aspects of the customer’s branch sections from projects to documentation and policies. The Project Management Office provides a framework, tools, and staff to manage projects and initiatives. The Network Infrastructure Section provides IT infrastructure support, including networking/firewalls, backups, data center management, and operating system management. The Service Desk Section provides hands-on troubleshooting and user support for RIVA’s customer users, including support for laptops, desktops, peripherals, smartphones, operating systems, and software.
Position Description
We are seeking a skilled AV Technician with expertise in audio and visual productions.The AV Technician will set up, operate, maintain, and repair sound and video equipment for use in customer events. To be successful as an AV Technician, you should have experience transporting, assembling, operating, and repairing equipment used for multimedia production. A great audio visual technician is creative, flexible, and detail-oriented, with good communication and teamwork skills.
Responsibilities
AV Technical
- Provide audio and visual expertise to ensure a high-quality experience for RIVA’s customer events and large-scale meetings, ensuring all connected systems operate at peak performance, ability to troubleshoot and adjust the systems as required, and conduct objective analysis to spot issues and eliminate them before an event. This includes supporting on site meetings.
Meeting Management and Support
- Work with RIVA and RIVA’s customer stakeholders on to prepare, plan, and execute large scale events as well as close out any post event action items.
- Provide specialized desktop support for presentations, meetings, and other audio/visual needs, focusing on VIP/Executive-level clients.
- Assist with research and analysis of new technologies with an emphasis on meeting support and presentation tools
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in audio visual technology or a related field and 5 years of experience in audio and visual productions.
- In-depth working knowledge of camera and lighting techniques.
- Strong working knowledge of audiovisual editing equipment and software.
- Excellent computer and troubleshooting skills.
- Creativity, attention to detail, and flexibility.
- Strong communication, customer service, and organizational skills.
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