Media Producer
Media Producer
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Job Description
The Media Producer plays a critical role in bringing the Pepperdine Brand to life through compelling imageryand storytelling.This role is responsible for creating high impact photography and video assets by documenting the many facets of Pepperdines brand story including academic spiritual athletic social and extracurricular life on campus and offcampus. The Media Producer will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of their video and photo projects including reviewing all footage pulling selects and performing editing on both photos and videos. This role will produce and deploy compelling mediabased initiatives for recruitment fund raising social media and external communications consistently delivering high quality assets representing the University brand standards. This role combines technical proficiency creative styles and modern photographic techniques and cinematographic styles to capture marketing messages for the University. Photographic techniques include landscape photojournalism sports stock and portraits that are posed candid and staged photography. Cinematographic styles include documentary interview sports commercial drone and staged.
Integrated Marketing Communications is directly tasked with supporting the Universitys mission and strategic plan by building brand equity elevating the Universitys national reputation providing strong and consistent institutional message leadership and implementing effective marketing and communication strategies. The photographer is directly tasked with a critical role in helping the department accomplish its goals.
Duties
- Video Production The Media Producer will be required to act independently be innovative and think creatively to determinetheoptimal setup to produce highquality footage by using appealing compositions lighting and directing techniques. The Media Producer will be expected to effectively troubleshootmechanical sound focus and lighting issues to visually tell the Pepperdine story through compelling footage and interviews all shot with a creative vision utilizing best practices and industry standards. The Media Producer also serves as the licensed drone operator.
- Photography Produce professional quality digital photographs as required by IMC. Includes planning coordinating and executing photo assignments in studio and onlocation including photojournalism sports landscape events and general marketing.
- Image Editing Perform expert level editing utilizing Adobe Creative Suite including incorporating filters and tools to lightly correct and touch up photos prepare digital camera raw files and JPG images to achieve desired results for immediate use.
- Video Editing Reviewing all footage pulling selects and editing the videos. Perform expert level editing utilizing Adobe Creative Suite including incorporating color adjustments sound sweetening and graphics to achieve desired results for immediate use on a variety of channels.
- Asset Management Determine the selected best shots. Transfer and log all selected files into a shared storage device. Maintain a central organizational system. Apply accurate and effective metadata to photographs for individual and batch file retrieval.
- Video Documentation Use discretion to record video that captures campus life based events and showcases various features on all campuses. Record broll including classes meetings facilities and events represented in testimonial interviews.
- Consultation Planning Scheduling Independently negotiate priorities coordinate assignments and maintain calendars. Perform customer outreach to plan consult and determine client needs on all requests. Utilize project management software to update project status and store all pertinent records. Collaborate with the Integrated Marketing team and university partners on strategic and creative approaches to projects involving abstract or technical content to meet objectives within time and cost constraints. Propose new video initiatives assist in document writing as well as research and maintain expertise in technology trends and best practices.
- Resource Maintenance maintain a variety of photography/videography equipment and resources including but not limited to; a fully equipped studio light modifiers Digital SLR and mirrorless cameras mobile lighting equipment and audio equipment.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Uphold University mission through work performed.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
Skills and Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelors Degree in Communications Media Production Journalism Film/Television Production Photography or similar field.
- Two plus years experience in photography or digital video production within marketing advertisingnews media or creative agency.
- Demonstrates initiative and creativity. Entrepreneurial proactive and resourceful.
- Awareness of contemporary trends in photography and videography
- Ability to manage a variety of simultaneous projects excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills mature judgment and diplomacy required to interact effectively with and provide customer service to a broad audience.
- Strong project management skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as effectively in a collaborative team environment.
- Ability to manage a variety of simultaneous projects: has excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Strong collaborator with demonstrated experience successfully working with peers and leadership.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- 2 years of technical experience using photography equipment including but not limited to various camera systems lighting and lighting modifiers.
- 2 plus years in digital video production lighting and audio recording. Including use of DSLR/Mirrorless based videography cinema camera systems drones stabilizers LED & tungsten lights field sound recorders microphones and safety procedures.
- 2 years experience with Adobe CS Premiere Photoshop Adobe Camera Raw Audition Acrobat Media Encoder/Compressor and other relevant Creative Cloud applications.
- 2 years experience with PowerPoint Keynote Office and Google Suite.
- Submission of a digital portfolio with samples of photo and video work.
Preferred:
- Experience working in higher education.
- Understanding of the online photo environment and online distribution.
- Demonstrated experience creating digital content in high pressure situations and under tight deadlines.
- 3 years managing an enterprise digital management system.
- 2 years experience managing photo and video shoots.
- 2 years experience working with clients to achieve strategic visual assets that advance organization brand and messaging an asset; ability to formulate recommendations through creative analysis and interpretation
- Broad knowledge of all aspects of professional quality productions including field and studio cameras and lighting.
- Understanding key trends and issues in video production technology.
- Experience in developing imaginative and visionary visual content from the idea phase to interpretation to final product.
- Experience in developing creative and strategic visual content that aligns and supports integrated marketing/branding goals and best practices.
- Ability to set the photographic aesthetic by utilizing advanced and artistic knowledge of shot composition scenes and sequences as well as color mood and tone to elevate the visual experience.
- Comprehensive awareness and interest in new trends platforms and technologies for the emerging digital landscape preferred.
- Ability to interact with stakeholders from all levels of the organization to identify goals and make recommendations on how to best achieve those goals through the development of original visual content.
- Ability to selfdirect to discover new opportunities and generate ideas that are then translated into original innovative and artistic content outside of university client requests.
- Experience planning coordinating and executing archival digitization projects.
- Proven artistic and creative ability with a related portfolio of recent work samples.
- Experience working with project management software.
- Advanced technical experience using digital media equipment photo and video creation editing software and/or digital media control software.
- Experience writing metadata and catalog media in digital asset management databases.
- Knowledge and experience with various audio/video formats delivery methods and camera systems (including legacy).
Qualified individuals should be able to show respect for workplace differences and have the ability to work effectively with individuals from different backgrounds.
Offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal education and employment screening. The University conducts such screenings in compliance with applicable laws and with the objectives of evaluating risk and supporting a safe environment for students faculty staff and guests; safeguarding key University assets including people property information and the Universitys reputation; and providing comprehensive jobrelated information to University leaders to enable them to make prudent hiring decisions. Qualified individuals with criminal histories will be considered for employment in compliance with applicable laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance.
This is a Regular Nonexempt 40 hour per week position.
Expected Pay Range: $27.46 $30.51 per hour
The above pay range reflects what Pepperdine University reasonably expects to pay for this position at time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on relevant factors such as work experience market conditions education/training and skill level. In addition to base pay Pepperdine offers a robust and highly competitivebenefits package.
Pepperdine is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of any status or condition protected by applicable federal state or local law.
Employment Type
Full-Time
