Freelance Hairstylist at FOX Entertainment

**Who this is for** A skilled hairstylist with experience in the television industry, looking to provide professional grooming and hair services for news anchor

Work type: onsite

Location: New York, New York, USA

Salary: $35 – $40/hr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** A skilled hairstylist with experience in the television industry, looking to provide professional grooming and hair services for news anchors and contributors. **Key highlights** You will be part of a creative team responsible for the aesthetic presentation of on-air talent, ensuring they look camera-ready in a high-pressure, fast-changing cable news environment. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 3+ years of professional experience in hair styling for television or media. - Demonstrate high proficiency in blow-outs, roller sets, and hot iron techniques for both men and women. - Maintain a professional, warm, and helpful attitude when working with high-profile talent. - Are exceptionally flexible with your schedule to accommodate breaking news and shifting production needs.

Job Description

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox News Media

FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer digital streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the newly announced platform FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for 20 consecutive years, while FBN currently ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by FOX Corporation, FOX News Media reaches 200 million people each month.

## JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Freelance Hairstylist for Fox News, you know how to ready a person for their close-up! Your skills in hair styling guarantee that you can make anyone feel confident in their own skin. You will be a member of a team of artists responsible for preparing Fox News anchors, reporters, and contributors to appear on national television. This role will require a high level of proficiency in hair styling for both men and women, as well as the ability to understand and work in the rapidly changing environment of cable news.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Style hair in a manner appropriate for television - This has to be accomplished very quickly and includes a high level of proficiency in the techniques of blow-outs and velcro roller sets, as well as using hot irons to accomplish volume and smoothness and a defined hairstyle for women

• Provide excellent customer service for Fox all who are visiting Fox News by always projecting a friendly, helpful demeanor

• Demonstrate the ability to identify and solve problems by proposing solutions

• Be a dedicated teammate at all times, Jump in to help others who are readying talent for air, Be a good steward of the hair and makeup room by sharing in this responsibility with your other colleagues

• Keep the hair and makeup room and one's personal space clean, tidy, and free of clutter, and identify products that need to be replenished to management so that supplies are well stocked

• Understand that the nature of television news requires employees to be able to change their schedule and/or work earlier or later than a planned shift to accommodate the needs of a news bureau responding to breaking news

• 3+ years of experience working in the field of television makeup and hair

• Demonstrated ability of hairstyling for both men and women

• A high personal standard of excellence that leads you to be meticulous and careful in your work

• A warm, positive attitude and strong work ethic

• Demonstrated ability to maintain a very professional manner as a representative of Fox News Channel when greeting and looking after talent appearing on air

• Promptness and dependability

• Candidates must be flexible with their schedule as shifts change frequently depending on breaking news

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