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The Cornell University Lab of Ornithology is seeking a full-time Bird Academy Media Producer/Editor to join a dynamic team of educators, biologists, artists, and programmers on the Bird Academy team. Bird Academy is an online learning platform that supports an ever-growing audience of people seeking to satisfy their curiosity about birds and nature. Our learner-centered content includes 20 online courses, 8 interactives, and more than 500 educational videos.

As the Bird Academy Media Producer/Editor, you will play a key role in the Lab's mission by producing educational video content that inspires participants to connect with the natural world and pursue lifelong learning. You will use your creative talents and media production skills to develop educational materials including instructional videos, natural history profiles, tutorials, and promotional videos for online consumption. Your job will be to:

• Producer and edit educational videos using collected and archival footage.

• Apply your video production skills to successfully execute field production, and use your media management skills to log, organize, and archive video and audio content.

• Work with Bird Academy's content team to develop creative media plans so that each product meets its learning goals.

This is a highly collaborative position, involving working with course designers, instructors, producers, and other talent to create educational videos that inform, inspire, and encourage behaviors that benefit the natural world.

The successful candidate will have;

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in media production, communications or similar field with at least 2 years of experience in media production and/or video editing.

• Ability to organize and shape media productions starting from script development and pre-production through to final educational products.

• Ability to work in a production-driven team environment, and communicate effectively with a variety of contributors including external talent.

• Ability to occasionally travel domestically and internationally; a valid driver's license and passport is required.

• Working knowledge of Adobe Premiere.

Having this additional background and experience would be great, but it is not required:

• Advanced training or degree in filmmaking or media studies.

• Experience producing educational video content, especially that relates to the environment, wildlife or conservation.

• Experience directing field crews and planning field production, with an informed understanding of technical needs/demands associated with field assignments.

• Experience with post-production, including media management, editing, animation, audio/video technical mastering and all associated aspects.

• Spanish language fluency.

• Proficiency with Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Audition, and/or other Adobe applications.

• Familiarity with natural history and/or biology subject matter.

What we offer:

We hope you appreciate great benefits. Cornell receives national recognition, as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives.

• Our benefits program includes comprehensive health care options, access to wellness programs, employee discounts with local and national retail brands, and generous retirement contributions.

• Our leave provisions include three weeks of vacation and 12 holidays: e.g., an end-of-year winter break, from December 25th through January 1st.

• Cornell's impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, Tuition Aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance program.

• We invite you to follow this link to get more information: https://hr.cornell.edu/summaries-benefits.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This is a full-time position based in Ithaca, New York.

How to Apply:

You must submit both a resume/CV and cover letter. If you have one, please include a link to your reel, or sample(s) of work and your role on those productions.

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