[Hiring] Senior Video Editor @World Food Programme

Role Description

The Senior Video Editor will plan, project manage, direct and produce film products for WFP, to brief and deliver final edited film products, along with supporting clean versions and project files (as specified in each brief). The products will support communications and private sector fundraising strategies at WFP, as well as helping to define a clear visual style to support our growth in brand awareness.

Key responsibilities include:

• Storyboard, script, develop and edit a variety of video products to brief and tight schedule, to engage specific supporter and donor audiences with the work of WFP.
• Quickly and efficiently create, edit and deliver emergency video products using photo, footage and key messages, to ensure timely fundraising.
• Independently develop scripts and narratives for all video content using statistics/key messages supplied with briefs.
• Ensure consistent use of title graphics and colour palette across all video products.
• If requested, film staff, beneficiaries or other people for video products and/or direct creative studio staff or other freelancers to film relevant contributors for film products.
• Work within the agreed content ingestion protocols and post-production workflows of the WFP DAM system, and independently upload all video products to the system as required.
• Support with other film, animation/FX projects as requested and briefed through the year.
• Availability for 'out of hours' on-call work including at weekends in the case of a humanitarian or other emergency appeal.
• Willingness to be adaptable and 'roll your sleeves up' to get the work done across a small team with big ambitions.
• Occasional travel to Rome may be required.
• Work as the conduit between IG & COM in relation to all video-based products.
• Keep abreast of all new raw content streams and make suggestions to the IG team in relation to new final video products and/or concepts.
• Ensure all IG video products adhere to the latest video, brand and image guidance that is applicable agency wide.
• Ensure all content featured has beneficiary consent.
• Comment on, produce and as needed lead on the production of content briefing documents for external agencies and country-based content gathering teams.
• Travel to the field as required to lead and gather new content.
• As required produce video products in non-English language variants and follow team wide proof-reading protocol for approval.
• As required produce video enabled for use across multiple channel execution (Facebook, email, SMS).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline e.g. English, Design, Advertising, Communications or Marketing required.
• At least twelve years of relevant professional experience with filming, video editing and post-production of fundraising and brand products including work with international humanitarian or development organisations.
• Extensive experience of creating powerful and effective video content for marketing/fundraising/brand campaigns for an international NGO/UN agency.
• Experience of working in the commercial sector.
• Extensive experience editing and producing video products using Premier Pro/Avid and other editing software.
• Proven track record of working to create fundraising and/or awareness videos in a humanitarian and/or development context.
• Demonstrable experience of managing advanced FX and other animation projects for creation of film products.
• Ability to explain and translate to film complicated concepts across a range of cultures and geographies to diverse audiences.
• Ability to work with WFP teams, and other freelancers to deliver on brief.
• Work experience within the United Nations system or a similar international organization in humanitarian/development sector is a significant advantage.

Requirements

• Be highly organized with exceptional planning skills.
• Maintain a high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks within deadlines and deliver on commitments.
• Take initiative to solve problems and seek solutions.
• Ability to think creatively and to work effectively in a multicultural environment and international organization.
• Be people-oriented. Uses tact and courtesy to give and receive information with a variety of individuals.
• Highly adaptable to change and comfortable dealing with ambiguity, stress and competing demands with grace and humor.

Benefits

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
• WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package.