Videographer - Strategic Communications & Marketing Videographer & Editor

About the role

Executes professionally developed, high-quality video content that is on-brand, strategic, and compelling. Collaborates with coworkers and campus partners to ideate, develop, and create high quality visual content in support of University’s brand, marketing efforts, and enterprise wide projects.

Location: Kennesaw campus at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144; Marietta campus at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060.

Responsibilities

• Films a variety of original and branded content, in the field, on set, and in the studio—from sit down interviews to handheld doc‑style, with a focus on short‑form consumable digital content.
• Ideates, develops, and pitches concepts for video projects
• Develops storyboards, shotlists, style frames, and scripts
• Ingests and backs up media, logs and organizes footage
• Edits videos to tell a compelling story with a narrative focus
• Color grades videos to give each video a unique identity and tone dependent on project goals
• Owns assigned projects and delivers edits as assigned while adhering to deadlines and budget
• Maintains communication with team and other stakeholders to coordinate the timely delivery of videos and other deliverables
• Participates in creative and design meetings, while also brainstorming with coworkers for active projects
• Collaborates with University personnel and the local community
• Acts as a resource and mentor to student assistants

Requirements

Educational Requirements: Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education in Film, Communication, Journalism or related field.

Other Required Qualifications: Current, valid, and unrestricted driver's license.

Required Experience: Three (3) years relevant experience in Film, TV, or Commercial video production covering various styles of video creation (Narrative, TV, social‑only, long form, Commercials).

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications: An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a related field.

Preferred Experience: Previous experience working for Production Company, Network, or Freelance; previous experience in higher education.

Skills

• Adheres to editorial guidelines and best practices
• Able to multitask and work on multiple projects at the same time while meeting assigned deadlines
• Able to work individually or with a team on any given project
• Demonstrated understanding of proper workflows and pipelines, including media storage, transcoding, backups, and editing workflows
• Strong knowledge and skill set of lighting techniques and styles
• Strong understanding of storytelling visually and narratively
• Excellent interpersonal, initiative, teamwork, problem solving, independent judgment, organization, communication (verbal and written), time management, project management and presentation skills
• Expert proficiency with operating cinema level cameras such as Canon and Red cameras
• Skilled in Adobe Creative Cloud, audio sweetening, color correction, transcoding, QCing final products and managing deliverables
• Proficient with computer applications and programs associated with the position (i.e. Microsoft Office suite)
• Skilled in modern digital cinematography techniques, and educated on film and video production process
• Proficient with non-linear video editing software and other industry standard software such as Adobe Creative Cloud, DaVinci Resolve Studio, audio editing and sweetening software, color correction, transcoding, and quality controlling final deliverable files
• Proficient with high-quality audio capture
• Skilled and familiar with industry standard computer programs associated with the position (i.e. Microsoft Office, Dropbox, Vimeo, etc.)
• Strong customer service skills and phone and e-mail etiquette

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 13 paid holidays, vacation, generous retirement plans, tuition waiver, wellness options, and more! Visit https://hr.kennesaw.edu/benefits/index.php.

Pay

The budgeted salary range is $54,160 to $64,500 per year. Offers are based on relevant experience.