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WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY Video Production Specialist I in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah

If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Use creativity and artistic vision to tell compelling stories by producing videos, utilizing professional camera techniques, lighting, video editing, color grading, graphics and titles, audio post-processing, music, effects, and foley. * Participate in the entire video production process, including concepting, directing, shooting, interviewing, location sound capture, editing, color correction, audio post-processing, motion graphics, exporting final deliverables, thumbnails, caption files, links/embed codes, and backing up projects using studio guidelines for organization and metadata/tagging. * Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for process improvement, social media best practices, platform-specific requirements, and increased video engagement. * Responsible for communicating and effectively collaborating with team members and stakeholders at all levels to ensure a smooth transition from initial concept to final deliverable. * Responsible for understanding and implementing best practices for media organization and back-up. * Train and assist staff in the operation of video equipment and systems. * Assist other departments as directed, including live-broadcast and events, podcasts, and more. * Assist producers with scripting, storyboarding, and planning of video productions. * Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities: * Ability to continually learn and adapt in a constantly evolving media environment. * Ability to transform raw video footage, audio assets, still images, and graphics into compelling stories through creative editing, color grading, and sound design/mixing. * Proficient in the entire video production process, including concepting, directing, shooting, interviewing, and location sound capture. Understands on-set protocols and best practices for film, television, and documentary production. * Proficient in the entire video post-production process, including video editing, color correction, audio sweetening, basic motion graphics (titles/lower thirds) and exporting final deliverables. * Highly skilled at shot composition, framing, lighting, camera movement, and presentation of product features. Understands and implements the concept of "shooting for the edit". * Highly skilled in all technical facets of video image capture: Sensor formats, ISO, exposure techniques, lenses, filters, follow focus, resolution, frame rates, recording formats, bitrate, camera audio/sync, color space, LUTs, and DIT/data management. * Highly skilled in all technical facets of video editing and color correction: advanced video and audio editing, RAW/LOG footage manipulation, resolution, frame rates, pixel aspect ratios, encoders, bitrate,... For full info follow application link.

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.

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