Associate Multimedia Editor or Senior Multimedia Editor

Role Responsibilities

You will commission and produce editorial videos and podcasts for Nature Magazine with a specific responsibility for managing social vertical video. Specifically this will include:

• Filming and editing video with a focus on vertical video primarily TikTok Facebook and Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts

• Playing an active role in discussions on commissioning taking part in brainstorms and idea generation with a focus on the content that will be of most interest and relevance to Natures existing and potential audience.

• Innovating different types of content to reach new audiences on social media

• Script writing and editing; story development

• Camera and sound operating

• Equipment management

• Stock image/footage/audio research

• Publishing management i.e. video upload and compression/formatting metadata obtaining correct permissions

• Helping to manage the Nature Video YouTube channel

• Audio production where necessary to support the teams audio output

• Working with animators and other freelancers to produce content

Experience Skills and Qualifications

Essential:

• Experience in science communication video production or journalism. A keen understanding of how to create video for social media e.g. TikTok Reels for Instagram and Facebook X YouTube

• A demonstrable portfolio of communicating science to a non-specialist audience factual video production and social video production. Your portfolio should include examples of science writing video editing and ideally narration or presenting.

• Extensive experience operating a camera including: shooting talking heads action sequences and B-roll; manual camera operation; uploading/importing footage to editing software

• Mac literate

• Experience of video compression and format conversion

• Extensive experience of video editing with Final Cut ProX and Adobe Premiere Pro

• Audio editing with Adobe Audition or equivalent software

Desirable:

• Bachelors science degree

• Postgraduate science communication qualifications journalism training or qualifications

• Experience of news reporting/researching

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