Temporary Video Producer III, Planet Money

About the role

NPR is a mission-driven multimedia organization producing award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations. The audience values information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility, and employees share those values. NPR is a leader in journalism, digital media, IT, and development, touching millions worldwide. The organization fosters collaboration, diverse voices, and inclusion, and expects integrity, adherence to ethical standards, and compliance with legal obligations from every employee.

Planet Money seeks an experienced video maker to help transition into a new era of video. The role blends creator, strategist, and trainer: piloting social video with podcast/audio teams, assessing what works, updating strategy, building sustainable workflows, and training audio producers in video tools, metrics, and visual storytelling. The position offers wide latitude for experimentation, collaboration with existing video and journalism teams, and support to make audio journalism thrive on new platforms. It is a temporary six‑month assignment aimed at establishing a sustainable social video operation that the team can continue after the role ends.

Responsibilities

• Work with Planet Money leadership, video creators and NPR visual and social teams to refine and implement Planet Money’s video strategy, gathering and using audience and performance data to inform decisions.
• Lead experimentation with different forms of video journalism, assess results and help determine which approaches Planet Money should focus on.
• Collaborate with Planet Money and The Indicator editors, producers and hosts to conceive, produce, shoot, edit and publish video for NPR’s platforms and social media.
• Train and coach some of our audio producers in video production and visual storytelling, video tools and interpreting performance metrics.
• Develop short-form social video and other visual projects that extend Planet Money and The Indicator’s journalism to new and existing audiences.
• Write and edit social video posts, captions, stories and other supporting copy and contribute to community engagement alongside other members of the team.
• Coordinate production, publication and assessment of programming for visual platforms in collaboration with NPR’s visual and social teams.
• Establish sustainable video production workflows that the podcast teams can continue on their own.
• Maintain NPR editorial and ethical guidelines in all production.

Requirements

• At least four years of experience regularly