Video Producer Fellow - More Perfect Union

Job type: Paid Fellowship 

Compensation: $20/hour plus up to $500/month home office expense reimbursement

Time commitment: Full-time, 6 month fellowship Location: 100% Remote, Telework 

Start Date: December 2, 2024

More Perfect Union is an advocacy and journalism organization with a mission to build power for the working class. We cover politics, policy, labor, business, and economic news through a class lens, and we pair our reporting with activism to help working people win policy fights. Launched in February 2021, More Perfect Union’s coverage has garnered more than 500 million video views and 2+ million followers and subscribers. 

We are looking for a Video Producer Fellow who will work with our newly created Quickturn team to conceptualize, produce, and script news-driven videos on a quick timeline, specifically for TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts, as well as short explainer videos for YouTube. 

Video storytelling skills are essential for the role as well as a passion for, and experience in content ideation, scripting, and pre-production; production (including conducting interviews and on-camera work); and post-production. The Video Producer Fellow will be working on a range of video formats across social media platforms, including breaking news coverage, videos from the picket line, on-camera explainers, and concise, shareable YouTube shorts emphasizing a strong point from our longer-form content.

The Video Producer Fellow must be immersed in and excited about the process of telling stories through video, with the technical and narrative skills to create powerful stories that hook viewers and keep people watching to the end. The position requires a high level of self-sufficiency, strong collaboration and communication skills, and a desire to help develop and grow our brand.

Core Responsibilities: 

• Conceive of, produce, and script original videos for our social media channels, with an emphasis on vertical video, short explainers with experts, and videos documenting strikes and union drives; 
• Pull video clips, b-roll, news headlines, images and other media for scripts;
• Provide research assistance, fact checking and copy editing on video scripts;
• When needed, identify interviewees, interview subjects, write scripts, record VO or shoot direct to camera for quickturn pieces;
• Work with our producers to break down longer, produced pieces into compelling short-form content;
• Receive assignments from supervisor and colleagues for prompt action;
• Operate in a nimble environment;
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Experience/Qualifications: 

• An excellent scriptwriter, producer, storyteller and collaborator, with strong interpersonal skills;
• Regular user of social media, in particular TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube;Passion for, and substantial knowledge of, 
• national politics and economic justice  issues; 
• A self-starter who pays close attention to detail and is highly organized and capable  of meeting tight deadlines;
• Available full-time hours and able to excel in a remote - work from home  environment.
• Proficiency with Adobe Premiere a plus;
• Proficiency with in-platform editing tools on TikTok and Instagram a plus;
• Interest and experience in on-camera work in news or explainer videos a major plus

At More Perfect Union we strive to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in all elements of our work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), age, physical or mental disability, post-secondary educational status, citizenship, genetic information, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented and marginalized communities to apply.

More Perfect Union is offering fellows a living wage and benefits package including: health, dental and vision benefits, monthly home office expense reimbursement, paid federal holidays, PTO and paid sick leave.

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