Social Content Creator

British GQ are looking for a talented and experienced social content creator and editor to join its award-winning team. They are looking for someone with social media experience and creating highly engaging content.

The role will include shooting and lighting scenes as well as editing premium content, both long and short form, from assembly through to final delivery (including grading, sound-mixing and versioning).

Working closely with our central video team and GQ video producers, the ideal candidate will be highly proficient operating DLSRs and mid range professional cameras like Sony FX6. The candidate must be able to work in Adobe Premiere or Resolve and have exceptional editing and motion graphics skills, as well as confidently sound mix and grade, usually under tight deadlines.

Experience working to specs and brand guidelines for Tiktok, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram is essential. We are looking for candidates who understand the video social ecosystem and that have an understanding of what it takes to make the content standout.

The candidate will be required to contribute to the creative process ahead of a shoot, as well as tailor the editing style to the specific content. The ideal candidate will be confident handling video productions from ideas to final delivery on their own as well as producing bigger scale event content with larger teams.

This role is a 3 month FTC.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Edit enticing, original and high-quality original video content across multiple platforms. Creating compelling stories

Create bespoke assets that show knowledge of and a consideration for social media audiences - including, but not limited to, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat

Manage multiple edits and projects at the same time

Contribute innovative creative concepts across a broad range of video content

Help to develop and ensure the style, tone and quality of Vogue/GQ video content

Responsible for the organisation, ingest, transcoding, backup, archival, QC and documentation of all footage across a busy post production team

Research and source the best music tracks and sound effects for a given project, using a production music database

Work flexibly and reactively to a high volume video workflow

Help to create, update and develop all graphic assets for video content

Ensure all deadlines are met throughout the post production process and deliver final assets on time

Share knowledge and be a champion for innovative video within an editorial team working with multiple different mediums

Follow the currents and trends of social media content

Come up with original ideas to execute on our channels

Essential Skills & Requirements:

Proven experience within the fashion, editorial or related content industry

Experience working across brands social platforms

Capture high quality video and sound content with minimal crew.

High-level knowledge and experience editing both short and long form content on Adobe Premiere or Davinci resolve

Editing specifically for social media

A great awareness of the social ecosystem

Experienced in data wrangling, ingest settings, transcoding, video codecs and formats

Knowledge of video archival through media asset management systems

Upkeeping and organising a central edit server

Colour correction and colour grading – DaVinci Resolve

Motion graphics

Sound mixing

Required Software Knowledge:

Adobe Creative Suite - with particular high-level knowledge of Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Audition, Photoshop and Media Encoder