Social Video Producer (Podcasts)

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of 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 are looking for a social video producer (podcasts) to film, edit and produce engaging video and graphical content that will grow the audience for the award-winning Today in Focus podcast and other Guardian shows on our social media and video channels. You'll be covering a wide range of UK and international stories, producing videos on such things as housing, pop culture, elections, conflict, education, human rights, technology, and investigations.

This is a full-time 12-month fixed-term contract or internal staff secondment.

About the role:

• Work with producers, executive producers and hosts to generate ideas for how episodes can be presented and promoted on social channels
• Generate ideas for additional content that can be filmed and produced to engage social audiences
• Operate studio cameras and direct podcast video shoots
• Edit engaging social video content from our leading podcasts
• Working with podcast producers to brief guests and prepare them for filming episodes of Today in Focus
• Work closely with senior and executive producers to guarantee the highest levels of creativity, editorial and legal standards
• Explore new ways of connecting with audiences on social media, for example, through explainers, image carousels or behind the scenes content
• Assist with YouTube optimisation on all Today in Focus content - keywords, headlines, video descriptions, geolocating etc
• Assist with managing and responding to comments on YouTube and social channels
• Work with executive producers to provide data analysis on how YouTube and social content is performing.

About you:

• Experience of using video editing software, ideally Adobe Premiere
• Experience of shooting video in and outside of studio settings
• Experience of directing multi-camera video podcast shoots
• An understanding of design tools including Photoshop and Figma
• Understanding of YouTube channel management and search engine optimisation
• Insight into community engagement and audience data on YouTube and other social platforms
• Ability to interpret audience metrics to guide creative and strategic choices
• Awareness of how audiences dynamically discover and engage with social video
• Proven capacity to deliver high-quality outputs under strict, recurring deadlines
• Understanding of Guardian podcasts and what makes compelling episodes
• Knowledge and understanding of media law
• Active interest in UK and global current affairs
• Ideally, you'll have a demonstrable ability to bring a diverse perspective to this role

We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.

We operate in a hybrid environment working at least three days a week from our offices in King's Cross in London.

Job share applications are welcome. If you are keen to apply jointly with someone else as a job share, you should make a single application and combine your application documents.