Job description
How You’ll Contribute
At National Geographic, we believe in the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to change the world. With the support of the Special Project Editor, the Assistant Media Editor works on collecting, ingesting, and organizing the assets (Photo and Video) created by The National Geographic Society Zenith Programs. The Assistant Media Editor helps support and enhance the goals and mission of NGS by assisting to curate and sharing the collected visual assets (Photo and Video) to content creators across NGS, NGP and our media partners. This includes researching rights and clearance information, creating accurate descriptions and precise keywording using the taxonomies that are departmentally specific, dynamic and ever changing. Provides final quality assurance of footage before submitting assets into the Society's archive and updating grants system and internal constituencies.
Your Impact
Responsibilities Include
- Under supervision of the Editor, the Assistant Media Editor will be responsible for writing full captions of all Zenith Program assets (Video and Photo) going into the NGS Digital Asset Management (DAM) system. Attention to detail is paramount (grammar, punctuation, formatting) This will include working with project team members to research and obtain knowledge about the area and project (40%).
- Prepare media assets by adding complete metadata (including keywords, credit line, project number, asset usage codes) for usage in the NGS DAM (30%).
- Verifying and cross-check assets being uploaded into NGS DAM, verifying assets are ready and available for NGS DAM users (15%).
- Assist with the ingesting of video content into DAM (10%).
- Curate and create video and photo collections for internal/external requests (5%).
What You’ll Bring
Educational Background
Bachelor’s degree in Video Production, Photography or equivalent
Minimum Years and Type of Experience
3+ years of video and/or photography editorial or storytelling experience, including video and photo editing. Must show evidence of previous media asset experience and understanding of digital/social media.
Necessary Knowledge and Skills
- Attention to detail, ability to understand and prioritize multiple requests from different team members.
- Must be comfortable asking questions, creative, highly organized, and motivated.
- Comfort with ambiguity and problem-solving skills.
- Must be capable of exercising flexibility, multitasking and working effectively with others.
- Knowledge of Premiere, Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop required.
- Familiarity with video file types, generating proxies, RED footage.
- Understand sidecar/metadata workflow and delivery.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to interact positively and productively with teams across organizational lines.
- Strong customer service, troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Ability to work within a digital asset management system.
Supervision
No direct reports
Salary Information
As a leading nonprofit organization, National Geographic Society offers competitive salary and total rewards to attract, develop, and retain an innovative and dynamic workforce.
The starting point of the salary range for this position is $57,000.
Job Designation
Hybrid - At the Society, we believe in the advantages of coming together to build community, mentor and learn from colleagues, and connect more deeply with our mission. As a result, the majority of our staff are Hybrid. Our Hybrid category requires that staff work at Base Camp two days each week: every Wednesday plus either Tuesday or Thursday. Because we recognize that we can effectively work remotely, this designation has been updated to provide more flexibility, both in the days staff choose to come into the office and how often they are expected to be at Base Camp. And of course, Hybrid staff are also always welcome to come in additional days each week if they prefer.
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e encourage you to apply even if your experience is not a 100% match with the position. We are looking for someone with relevant skills and experience, not a checklist that exactly matches the job description. We want to help you grow and in return, you help us grow into a stronger, more inclusive organization.
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