Posted On: December 5, 2016

Media-Related Job

Media Organization: NationSwell

Company Description

NationSwell is a social impact media company, storytelling platform and membership network with a mission to elevate the solutions to America's greatest challenges. Since we launched three years ago, we've told stories and driven impact to more than 1,000 innovators, watched our stories reach over 36M views per month, grown our membership Council to nearly 600 of the country's most prominent leaders from various fields and launched powerful impact campaigns with like-minded organizations.

Job Description

The NationSwell Video Producer must be able to fully develop mission-aligned documentary content. This entails preproduction, high-quality shooting and editing and producing stories by coordinating with subjects, freelancers and gathering secondary materials such as images, relevant statistics from reliable sources and music. The video producer will also be actively involved in outreach and distribution by alerting relevant websites to new content, recutting content for Facebook publication and actively looking for and exploiting new distribution channels.

The video producer is also expected to pitch two to three new, mission-aligned and researched story ideas every month.

In addition to editorial work, the video producer will work on sponsored and partnership (branded) content. In executing this work, the video producer will need to seamlessly communicate with sources, corporate social responsibility-office contacts and our own NationSwell partnership team to ensure we are telling high-quality stories that satisfy the objectives of all parties involved.

The ideal applicant is a video journalist that has also successfully completed several branded projects.

Applicant must be able to
1) Shoot high-quality video and capture audio as a one-person band, in all manner of settings both indoor and outdoor
2) Professionally light for interviews
3) Develop pre-produced pitches
4) Professionally edit and proficiently color correct and sound mix
5) Stay abreast of current events and developments with social enterprises
6) Stay abreast of video technology, as well as the rapidly-changing online video world
7) Get along with all manner of personalities and calmly execute under pressure

It is a plus if applicant
1) Can proficiently speak a second common American language (Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic)
2) Has working knowledge of graphics programs like After Effects, Motion
3) Has a network of video producers and sources to call upon for story production and ideas
4) Has produced shoots before, ideally from afar

To Apply

Email Thomas Shomaker (thomas@nationswell.com), NationSwell's director of video with

1) Cover Letter
2) Resume
3) Three links to video journalism / video work