Job Description
Job Details
Sound Management
- Provide sound technical support at all the Church’s programs and rehearsals requiring sound support.
- Operate the sound mixing console and other equipment to record, synchronize, mix voices, music, and sound effects for live performances and other purposes
- Record and edit speech, music, and other sounds on recording media.
- Maintain logs of all recorded messages.
- Set up, test, and adjust audio equipment used both for inhouse and remote events as well as disassemble equipment after event completion.
Equipment Management
- Be directly responsible for all the instrument in the audio control booth, on the stage, Front of House, and exteriors.
- Ensure that all equipment are kept under appropriate conditions, kept in order after performances, and maintain equipment in clean state.
- Take responsibility for safety of all equipment, instruments and gadgets.
- Maintain up-to-date documented inventory of all music and audio equipment and consumables (batteries, connectors, cables etc.) in the church.
- Report equipment problems in good time, and ensure that required repairs are made.
- Ensure standard operating procedures for maintenance of all equipment; partner with the organisation's facility unit for upkeep of all audio systems. Conduct and Process
- Uphold the standards and core values of The Elevation Church.
- Effect appropriate delegation during absence (off days) to ensure adequate coverage of all responsibilities.
- Other duties, as may be assigned by the Head of Audio Production Unit. People Management
- Assist in the oversight of all volunteers in the unit, cocoordinating their work and ensuring standard performances and compliance to rules.
- Help educate/ train prospective technicians and volunteers on equipment handling, initiate trainings and workshops for them to learn the basics of equipment handling.
- Offer useful professional advice as well as actively contribute on issues relating to equipment purchase and maintaince
Requirements
- A heart for worshiping God
- Experience mixing audio successfully in a live environment
- Music and sound management related trainings
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in sound engineering
- A clear understanding of how sound equipment operate
- Excellent manual dexterity to set up and adjust sensitive recording and mixing equipment
- Computer skills to manipulate sound editing and equipment control software
- Knowledge of electronics and acoustics
- A keen interest in music and sound
- A good sense of pitch, timing and rhythm
- Operation monitoring and coordination
- Equipment Maintenance
- Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switch control, and operation of sound equipment
Attitude and Behavioral Traits
- Good communication and ‘people’ skills.
- Agility, strength and endurance
- Active Listening
- Attention to Detail
- Stress Tolerance
- Team Orientation
- Good Interpersonal Skills
- Initiative and Problem Solving