Video Editor crafting digital journalism for The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national news media brand. Editing platform - specific news videos, social content and visual stories from concept through publication.
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Short-Form Video Editor, Video Repurposing Virtual Assistant
Posted 8 hours ago
About the role
- Part-time video editor repurposing Indigenous Geographic documentary footage into YouTube Shorts, Reels, and TikToks. Preserving Indigenous stories, cultural context, and authenticity in vertical content.
Responsibilities
- Edit professional documentary footage into engaging short-form content
- Create 30- to 90-second videos for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok
- Repurpose long-form documentaries and other supplied video assets into social-media-ready content
- Create vertical 9:16 videos, including reframing, cropping, and repositioning subjects
- Identify compelling scenes, moments, quotes, interactions, and visual sequences
- Maintain the original story, meaning, tone, authenticity, and cultural context
- Produce multiple short-form assets from longer documentary projects when appropriate
- Create engaging openings and pacing for short-form audiences
- Work with English subtitles, captions, transcripts, time-coded text, and subtitle placement
- Perform timeline management, cutting, sequencing, basic color correction, audio cleanup, transitions, rendering/exporting, and file organization
- Review footage and creative direction supplied through shared locations such as Dropbox
- Return edits for team review and incorporate reasonable feedback and revisions
- Export and deliver completed videos according to client specifications
- Collaborate with the Indigenous Geographic production team and international creative partners
- Adapt to evolving priorities and fluctuating content volumes
- Focus on video editing and content repurposing rather than independent research, original documentary development, or administrative functions
Requirements
- Professional video editing experience
- Strong short-form video editing ability
- Experience creating vertical 9:16 videos
- Experience repurposing long-form video into short-form content
- Strong understanding of pacing and storytelling
- Ability to identify compelling moments within longer footage
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to follow creative direction
- Ability to work independently
- Good English communication skills
- Ability to accept and implement feedback
- Reliable remote-work setup
- Availability for at least 10 hours per week
- Strong proficiency in DaVinci Resolve highly preferred
- Adobe Premiere Pro experience highly preferred
- Documentary editing experience highly preferred
- Social-media video editing experience highly preferred
- YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok editing experience highly preferred
- Professional RAW footage experience highly preferred
- Basic color correction and audio cleanup highly preferred
- Subtitle/caption editing highly preferred
- AI-assisted video editing and AI transcription/translation experience highly preferred
- Experience working with international teams and culturally sensitive documentary content highly preferred
- Portfolio/work samples demonstrating short-form video editing, vertical 9:16 content, documentary or storytelling work, long-form-to-short-form repurposing, social-media content, and caption/subtitle work
- Respect for Indigenous communities, cultures, traditions, languages, and culturally significant subject matter
- Willingness to learn about cultural context
- Comfortable collaborating with people from different cultures, backgrounds, and time zones
Benefits
- Part-time schedule with a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week
- Potential availability of additional hours depending on workload and future requirements
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Flexible coordination across time zones
- Opportunity to work with an international documentary film and video production company
- Collaboration with international creative teams and contractors
- Opportunity to work on Indigenous storytelling, cultural preservation, documentary filmmaking, and digital media projects
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