Content Editor / Senior Producer (Russian Speaking) 1 Year FTC
Zinc Network, United Kingdom
Job Description
Introducing Zinc Network (Zinc):
Zinc Network is a B-Corp 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.
About the role:
Zinc Network is seeking a Russian-speaking Content Editor/Senior Producer to oversee a suite of content as part of an exciting new project.
Based in London, and working to our Director of Content, our Content Editor/Senior Producer will be responsible for finding and selecting stories. They will commission long-form written articles and social posts, and manage a small team creating them, overseeing the work creatively and editorially. They will also be responsible for producing key high-quality videos on different topics, scripting the videos, finding contributors and archive, overseeing remote crews, working with animators, and edit producing the videos to guide them from start to finish.
As the production lead on this project, you will oversee scheduling and ensure that all production milestones are hit, and all assets delivered on time and to a high editorial and creative standard. You will take responsibility for driving the project forward, working with our accounts team, digital team and project management teams to ensure the smooth delivery of the project. You do not need any shooting or directing skills.
You will combine substantial journalistic experience with a creative and innovative approach to content production. Ideally, you will already have held a senior role in a news or content organisation, with editorial responsibility and experience of managing the creative work of others. Willing to get stuck in yourself where needed, you will be resourceful, curious and brimming with ideas. Overseeing the production of several pieces of content at the same time, you will need to be organised, efficient, positive, and with a can-do attitude to meeting deadlines.
As an experienced video producer, you will have significant experience in the edit, and will be great at writing clear, attention-grabbing scripts. You will be a master of conveying complex information in a simple and concise fashion. You will be able to take complex research and turn it into compelling video ideas, identifying the most effective hooks for a story and suggesting creative and engaging treatments to appeal to our target audiences in different countries. You will know how to make a film stand out visually, and how to find great archive. You will have experience of working with motion graphics and animation.
** In order for your application to be considered, please include samples of short social videos and other content that you have overseen and produced**
Key responsibilities:
· Provide editorial and journalistic oversight of the project, ensuring work meets our editorial guidelines and ethical standards
· Manage the creative workflow of the project and oversee the work of the project’s creative team
· Find and select journalistic stories
· Commission and edit long-form written content from our partners
· Come up with creative ideas for videos and social content
· Oversee the work of designers, animators, editors, and social content producers
· Write powerful treatments that bring ideas to life and suggest innovative creative approaches to maximise impact
· Write engaging scripts with personality that convey complex information in a simple and clear manner
· Take ownership of schedules for your projects
· Ensure assets are delivered to a high quality and on time
· Produce and edit produce a number of short videos simultaneously
· Ensure all edit scripts and other paperwork are kept up to date
· Ensure attention to detail in presentation of written work.
· Ensure scripts are accurate, rigorous, fact checked, and strategically appropriate for the needs of our clients and partners
· Participate in internal and client reviews, communicating creative vision and proposals effectively
· Take feedback well and be prepared to revise your scripts and edits in order to meet the needs of our clients, partners and internal stakeholders
Requirements
· Fluent written and spoken English and Russian
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