Senior Manager, Video Production

Summary

Join KIPP Public Schools as their Senior Manager of Video Production and lead the creation of high-quality video content that showcases our mission and impact. You will oversee all aspects of video production, from concept to completion, collaborating with internal and external teams. This role requires a proven track record in video production, strong leadership skills, and a passion for education. The ideal candidate is a visionary producer who can effectively communicate complex information and build strong relationships. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to make a significant contribution to KIPP's mission. The role is full-time, exempt, and offers flexible work arrangements, including the option to work remotely.

Requirements

• Ability to tell a compelling story, through video
• Proficient in planning, shooting, editing, and post-production video work
• Extraordinary interview skills with a unique ability to connect with the person sitting across from you
• Possesses a high level of self-awareness and cultivates strong, collaborative relationships at all levels
• Excellent communication skills with an aptitude for translating complex information into a clear and persuasive narrative
• Convinces others by identifying benefits for all
• Strong customer-service orientation, with deep value placed on the end-user experience
• Cultural competence in how you tell stories and in collaborating with teammates across lines of difference
• Strong organizational and follow-through skills
• Excellent time-management, project management, and knowledge management skills
• Meticulous attention to detail with reliable and timely follow-up and follow-through skills
• Excellent analytical thinker with the ability to interpret complex information
• Actively owns and learns from mistakes, actively seeks learning opportunities, leverages experts, internalizes learnings, and collaborates with teams to continually learn, grow and improve results
• Explores how identities impact their work, brings an assets-based lens, builds understanding of marginalization, dismantle white dominant culture, works towards racial justice and healing, and act against oppressive systems
• Passion for education equity and KIPP’s mission and values (Excellent Results for Students, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action)
• Dedicated to meeting or exceeding goals
• Pursues goals with energy, drive, and need to finish
• Delivers excellent work product, every time
• Ensures clarity in goals and accountabilities while working with agility and creativity to drive toward deadlines and outcomes-focused metrics
• Minimum 6 years of experience, including experience as a lead on story creation and execution
• A proven track record in effectively organizing others and yourself against immediate and long-term timelines

Responsibilities

• Lead the production of national branded video content for use across all communication channels including social media videos and animations, email deployments, alumni and scholarship announcements, recruitment campaigns, etc
• Act as an embedded documentarian to interview KIPP staff, students, families, community members, and alumni to identify, craft, and amplify stories about KIPP and issues relevant to KIPP
• Manage workflow and stakeholder engagement for all national KIPP video projects
• Maintain and enhance KIPP’s national video style guide
• Work in partnership with the national marketing and communications team to align video content to the editorial calendar and support distribution planning to ensure those stories reach target audiences
• Work in partnership with regional leads and external vendors to capture video content and support all onsite logistics of shoots as necessary
• Amplify existing and train new video storytellers within the KIPP network and provide them with tools and resources to communicate their messages and amplify their voices, increasing the volume, diversity, and reach of shared stories network-wide year over year

Preferred Qualifications

Fluency in Spanish (reading, writing, translating, editing, speaking)

Benefits

• 26 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+)
• 100% paid parental leave
• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans
• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
• Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts