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About the Role
We are looking for a video producer to work across Guardian podcasts, planning, filming, and editing episodes for shows like Politics Weekly, Politics Weekly America, and Science Weekly, and producing content for social feeds. You’ll cover a wide variety of UK and international stories, including exclusive political interviews, elections, the climate crisis, artificial intelligence, and wellness trends.
Responsibilities
- Working as part of the team which produces the Guardian’s always-on podcasts including Politics Weekly, Politics Weekly America and Science Weekly
- Generating ideas for podcast episodes, researching, briefing presenters and guests for interviews, filming in studio or remotely, scripting, editing and mixing to professional standards on tight deadlines
- Booking on-air contributors, both internal and external
- Working closely with the other producers, executive producers and hosts to guarantee the highest levels of creativity, editorial and legal standards
- Playing an active part in the Guardian’s multimedia team and looking for opportunities to showcase our journalism and values in audio and video form
- Contributing to and producing other Guardian podcasts and video or social video projects as required
- Working with other Guardian departments including marketing and membership, where required, to assist discoverability and promotion of podcasts
Requirements
- At least two years of experience of working in video podcasting or broadcast news
- Experience with Adobe audio and video editing software, and the ability to edit smoothly and accurately at pace
- Experience in analysing and responding to audience data such as YouTube analytics
- Ability to write engaging scripts and bring the best out of on-air contributors
- Experience in working in video studios with multiple cameras
- An interest in and understanding of Guardian journalism, Guardian podcasts and global Guardian audiences
- Proven capacity to deliver high-quality outputs under strict, recurring deadlines
- Great journalistic instincts and editorial rigour
- Knowledge and understanding of media law
- Creativity – able to find new angles on major news stories
- Comfortable recording audio and video in studio and on location
- Demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to this role
Skills
- Adobe audio and video editing software
- Analyzing audience data
- Scriptwriting
- Video studio production
- Journalistic instincts
- Editorial rigour
- Media law
- Storytelling
- Editing
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- 12-month fixed-term contract
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- At least two years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- Starts from £51,661
Benefits
- Six weeks of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays)
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days of annual leave
- Generous pension scheme (5% employee contribution, 8-12% employer contribution)
- 2 volunteering days annually
- Option of payroll giving
- Season ticket loans
- Life cover
- Income protection
- Eye tests
- Optional dental insurance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies
- IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy support
- Access to employee benefits platform for health and wellbeing support
- Free yoga and pilates classes
- Corporate gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
About the Company
- A diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account.
- Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
- We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.
- We became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.
Equal Opportunity
- We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
- All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply.
- It is important to us that you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process, in order to perform your best. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs.