Video Editor - Hybrid (London)
Zinc Network, United Kingdom
Job Description
Introducing Zinc Network
Zinc Network is an ISO certified business dedicated to meaningful, measurable change. Zinc conceptualizes and creates programs, interventions, and strategic communications campaigns around some of the world’s most complex problems from disinformation to extremism, media capture to authoritarianism.
We are headquartered in London with offices in Washington, D.C., Tbilisi, and Warsaw with 80+ team members from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds. Zinc works with a broad range of governmental, NGO, and private sector clients, including the UK Home Office (HO); the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO); the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the U.S. Department of State (DOS); UN agencies and missions; and foundations.
Outline of the job
The Video Editor will be responsible for editing and finishing short form factual digital content, using shot footage and archive, with direction from our producers.
On a full time contract, the Video Editor will be expected to be in our London office for at least 2 days per week until the end of March 2024. You will be working in the Post Production team and you will report directly to the Post Production Manager.
What you’ll be doing
· Editing a range of short videos with a variety of content across a number of campaigns, primarily for social media platforms
· Finishing films to a high standard including colour grading,
audio mixing and adding pre-made motion graphics and mogrts
· Suggest creative narrative styles when a fresh approach is needed
· Working calmly and quickly within tight deadlines
· Working closely and collaboratively with the team to ensure videos adhere to brand and are on message
· Re-versioning videos as required, both into different aspect ratios and into different language versions
· Exporting videos to our specifications
Requirements
· Minimum 5 years experience at editor level, ideally with factual experience
· Experience of editing for social media platforms
· Advanced knowledge of Premiere Pro
· Ability to competently colour grade using tools within Premiere
· Ability to competently mix audio using Creative Cloud tools
· Experience of working with basic Adobe After Effects desirable but not essential
· Understanding of digital workflows and video compression
· Excellent storytelling skills
· Strong attention to detail and well organised
· Experience in cutting foreign language videos
Conditions of Employment
Candidates who receive a job offer will be required to:
- Disclose any previous disciplinary action against them resulting from a substantiated safeguarding (including any breaches involving trafficking- related activities) or workplace investigation.
- Undergo background checks including employment verification, sexual offender registry (as available), identity confirmation, and anti-terrorism vetting.
Area of Selection
We’re committed to hiring a diverse workforce from different professional and cultural backgrounds, and to that end we encourage a variety of people to apply to join our company to represent the diverse range of subjects associated with our projects.
How to apply
Please include a cover letter stating how you meet each of the requirements.
If you require an accommodation to be made at any point throughout the recruitment process, please advise us when contacted.
Deadline for applications is November 12th 2023.