Overview
Editor
Starting Salary: £45700 – £48865 per annum plus benefits
Job Type: Full-Time.
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About the role
The Digital Media Lab is Imperial College London’s central media production unit, comprising of skilled media and XR practitioners (crew), studios and other production and post-production facilities. The DML supports the university, and its EdTech community, with scaled and varied production of films, animations, podcasts and VR and AR experiences, ranging from drama, through documentary, to animated lectures and interactive simulations.
As an Editor in the Digital Media Lab, you will be pivotal in the creative and educational success of a wide variety of films, animations, podcasts, and immersive teaching content. You will collaborate with multiple DML practitioners, from producers and camera operators to motion graphics designers, as well as multiple inter-disciplinary project teams from across the university, combining creative, technical, and quality control tasks from pre-production to delivery.
DML’s Editors are its post-production editorial power houses, engaging learners, delivering significant volumes of quality learning media and ensuring quality and timeliness. Working closely with other DML creative staff, and with DML’s motion graphics designers, they help bring our academic co-producers’ ideas and concepts to life and further DML’s university-wide roll in increasing standards and delivering quality in learning media.
The ideal candidate will have significant experience in editing and post-production, offline and online, factual to drama to promo. They would combine judgment with speed, keeping an eye on quality and ensuring all DML protocols and templates are adhered to.
The role also involves graphics / motion graphics; the candidate is expected to have some pertinent experience. DML is obsessive over workflow and tidiness; our post-production staff are all orderly and structured in their work, with the expectations of delivering great workflows and consistent processes, tracked on our back-end systems and stored on our servers, as opposed to merely exporting good-looking outputs.
Our editors are both independent practitioners and part of larger post-production teams. Candidates should be comfortable shifting from creative leadership on one project to following narrowly defined teaks on another, to drive as well as to follow.
Experience with learning media or explainer videos is desirable.
The post supports the broader objectives of the Digital Media Lab’s initiative to become a leading centre of excellence in learning media and extended reality production for Imperial College London. This includes supporting the development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), online degrees, blended degree content, and immersive interactive learning experiences.
Whilst the position offers multiple opportunities for further development, it is a skilled position for an experienced practitioner.
What you would be doing
- Owning and driving editorial work technically and creatively
- Supporting affiliated non-DML media practitioners and EdTech staff with editing and post-production solutions, templates, and solutions
- Supporting DML team’s leads on wider enhancement and process improvement with editing, visual and audio post-production, as well as collaborating with motion graphics and 3D artists colleagues to improve offering and workflows in post-production further.
- Leading editors on short films and podcasts, as well as undertaking wider editing projects jointly with colleagues
- Supporting with Directing and Filming various learning media, from podcasts, studio and location short lectures to learning drama and documentaries.
- Undertaking basic graphics, templating, and motion graphics tasks
- Data entry, status check and progress updating on projects and tasks to keep progress visible and help improve deployments of skilled crew to the right job at the right time
- Quality Assurance and data verification of assets, groups of assets and server volumes
- DIT support and media management
- Keeping abreast of developments in learning media techniques and technologies within the College, in HE generally and in relevant subject disciplines to enhance teaching and learning.
- Promoting awareness of learning media and experiences best practices across the university
- Supporting DML meetings and cross-project work streams with information and reporting
- Supporting Senior practitioners with continuous process and workflow assessment and improvement on project, programme, and cross-project levels, identifying efficiencies and supporting their tidy rollout and implementation.
- In collaboration with colleagues, undertaking networking activities, liaising with colleagues in and beyond the Academic Services Directorate, Faculties, Centers, units, and teams, as well as ICT, to build effective working relationships, generate best practices and share ideas.
- Supporting the DML and Academic Services Directorate with its operations and tasks regardless of programme or craft discipline
- Undertaking any other relevant duties and responsibilities commensurate with the grade of the post.
What we are looking for
- Significant experience and reel in film editing and post-production. We expect to be able to review original films, rather than reels only, to appreciate editorial style
- Significant experience in film structure, paper edits and management of content and dialogue focused films (such as drama, documentary, lectures)
- Basic Motion Graphics
- Leading creatively on a film / series of films with complex editorial brief or tight deadlines
- Workflow and process compliant (within large post-production environment / facility)
- Experience with assessing time requirements of both human tasks and machine tasks (rendering and exporting)
- Significant video editing experience within a university, agency, broadcaster, or in-house team.
- Experience with Film Direction and Filming.
- Audio editing and mixing.
- Color correction and Color grading (Adobe Premiere – DaVinci Resolve)
- Aesthetics, approaches, and trends in editing and post-production
- Expert knowledge Adobe Premiere
- Knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud
- Familiarity with quality control (video and audio)
- An understanding of DIT, media and data pipelines and the importance of media and assets integrity
- Experience with templating for scaled production
- Excellent grasp of communicating messages using imagery in a clean, well thought out way.
- A demonstrable capacity and will to acquire new skills and develop novel solutions and methodologies.
- Capable audio-visual communicator, able to focus and enhance narratives and messages through post-production
- Excellent time management for self, multitasking, prioritization
- Efficient, quick editor, using method and planning to manage workload efficiently
- Attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills
- Creative thinking and approach to both outputs and process
- Ability and willingness to learn from, and pass knowledge on to, others and develop the relevant formal and informal networks to enhance learning opportunities
- Team player, collaborative
- The ability to self-motivate
What we can offer you
- The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution and be part of our mission to continue science for humanity
- Benefit from sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 39 days off a year and generous pension schemes)
- Get access to a range of workplace benefits including a flexible working policy from day 1, generous family leave packages, on-site leisure facilities and a cycle-to-work scheme
- Interest-free season ticket loan schemes for travel
- Be part of a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work culture with various staff networks and resources designed to support your personal and professional wellbeing.
Further information
Should you require any further details on the role please contact: [Sarah Wong] – sarah.wong@imperial.ac.uk
Closing date: 20th September 2024
