Multimedia Editor

Summary

Join JFF's Marketing & Communications team as a Multimedia Editor and play a key role in their digital-first content strategy. Reporting to the AVP, Content Strategy, you will conceptualize, design, and produce engaging multimedia assets (video, motion graphics, animations) for various digital channels. You will collaborate with content creators, designers, and contractors to ensure content aligns with brand standards and accessibility best practices. This new role offers the opportunity to set a new standard for digitally engaging visual content. The ideal candidate possesses experience managing projects translating campaign goals into audience-centric multimedia content, skills in multimedia editing software (Adobe Creative Cloud), and strong collaboration and communication skills. JFF offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and flexible work arrangements.

Requirements

• You bring prior experience managing projects that translate campaign goals and strategy into audience-centric multimedia content that is built and customized for various digital platforms, preferably within the creative agency, nonprofit, education, workforce, or social impact setting
• You are skilled at using multimedia editing software such as the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of products
• You are comfortable working with other producers, editors and creative partners, and freelancers, providing oversight and guidance and contributing to creative briefs, storyboarding, and other strategic planning approaches
• You value and are skilled at developing effective relationships with your colleagues and other stakeholders in order to collaborate on projects and make meaningful contributions to the work
• You demonstrate good judgment, clear analytical thinking, and strong decision-making skills
• You have strong time management skills in order to effectively execute multiple workstreams and priorities
• You leverage professional development and other learning opportunities to stay current with advances in your field and grow your subject matter expertise
• You set ambitious and achievable goals and manage your time effectively to consistently deliver high-quality outputs and fulfill commitments that align with your organization’s strategic goals
• You take ownership of work by keeping yourself and others focused and accountable to the work
• You possess high energy and passion for JFF’s mission and North Star, and the ability to apply JFF’s core values to all areas of your work
• You are energized by stewarding JFF’s inclusion, belonging, and well-being values and practices within your day-to-day work, including embracing and celebrating the differences that each individual brings to JFF
• You value building positive and collaborative relationships with others, including people whose identities and backgrounds differ from your own
• You are able and willing to travel as needed for content shoots, up to 10%

Responsibilities

• Create visually engaging and relevant multimedia content customized for and accessible across various digital channels
• Taking an audience-centric approach, work with the content and business partner teams to understand the goals of campaigns to develop creative concepts for multimedia assets
• Select and/or create clips from in-person interviews, b-roll, audio, images, and other multimedia assets to produce short-form videos, animations, video effects, or motion graphics for use on web, social, and email
• Create compelling on-demand video content leveraging virtual and in-person events, and provide support to events team in optimizing the virtual event experience as needed
• Ensure all content produced is within brand standards and adheres to accessibility best practices
• Work collaboratively across the team to strategically incorporate feedback and edits into final assets
• Contribute towards the organizational-wide shift to digital-first storytelling
• Conceptualize and create video-based templates and guidance for individuals creating their own video-based assets based on brand standards and use cases
• Inform video-based content capture strategy
• Contribute towards a content library of evergreen assets and stories others can use in their work

Preferred Qualifications

New hires at the Senior Manager level at JFF typically bring 5-10 years of prior professional experience through a combination of full-time, part-time, internship, and/or freelance positions

Benefits

• JFF has offices in Boston, Oakland, and Washington, DC; employees are welcome to use JFF office space to work in-person or hybrid, or completely remote
• To improve the employee experience and promote productivity while working remotely, JFF offers an annual home office stipend to all regular full-time and part-time employees
• In addition, new employees receive office equipment as needed
• The hiring range for this role is $80,000 - $100,000 annually, in alignment to JFF’s Senior Manager salary band and our compensation philosophy
• Starting salaries for new hires will be determined based on a combination of the new hire’s relevant experience and market demands