Assistant Video Editor

About Trevor

The Trevor Project is the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people. Our non-profit provides 24/7 life-saving support via phone, text, and chat. We also operate the world’s largest safe space social networking site for LGBTQ+ youth and run innovative research, education, and advocacy programs. We’ve been saving lives every day for over 20 years.

Role

Every day, and in every role, our staff contribute to our critical mission of ending suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning young people by embodying our values:

Heart–We care deeply and commit to do what matters

Integrity–We build trust through our words and actions

Community-Together, we are an unstoppable force for good

Belonging-We serve as allies to the mission, and to each other

Progress-We continually move onward and upward

Applicants and staff must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. The Trevor Project will not sponsor an employment visa for this position.

Role: Assistant Video Editor

Location: This role will be remote in the continental United States, Alaska, or Hawaii

Reports to: Sr. Director of Content

Eligibility: Authorization to work for any employer in the United States is required. The Trevor Project will not sponsor a work visa for this role.

Classification: Exempt Full Time

Union Role? Yes

Salary Range: $65,000 base salary

Summary

The Assistant Video Editor will be primarily responsible for editing social clips for paid and organic distribution. With more than two million followers on our combined social media channels alone, The Trevor Project is looking for an Associate Video Editor who can produce high-value content with the goal of protecting and affirming LGBTQ+ young people.These videos have a broad range of target audiences, including LGBTQ+ young people, allies, youth-serving professionals, donors, internal/external trainees, corporate partners, and Trevor staff. Additionally, this role will assist the Video Editor on editing larger-scale projects and be responsible for asset ingest, proxy generation, and project setup. This role will work closely with the Video Editor and Sr. Director of Content in each stage of content creation, from concept to delivery, and contribute to iterating on existing workflows related to post-production. This role is grant-funded for a period of 3 years with potential for ongoing employment.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Edit clips for paid and organic social media from interviews and other short-form content. This may include basic color, sound mixing, captioning, motion graphics, and encoding.
• Assist the Video Editor on larger video editing projects
• Manage existing and new media assets on our project server, including ingest, generating proxies, backups, and exports.
• Set up and organize Adobe Premiere projects
• Participate in content development during pre-production and weekly team meetings.
• Use Adobe AI tools for interview transcription
• Upload and schedule media on YouTube
• Demonstrate fair, ethical, and equitable business practices
• Learn eagerly, share knowledge appropriately, and improve continuously
• Demonstrate successful planning and problem-solving skills, including multitasking and working well within tight timelines
• Work, communicate, and collaborate effectively with others
• Demonstrate attention to detail and accuracy in all work
• Demonstrate a commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging
• Other relevant duties and responsibilities as assigned
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience editing video content for online distribution. Link to portfolio required. Professional experience in a team environment is preferred, but not required.
• Proficiency in:
• Adobe Premiere at an advanced level
• Adobe After Effects, Audition, Illustrator, and Photoshop at a basic to moderate level
• Google Suite
• Proficiency in spoken and written English
  
  
  

Why Trevor?

A career that truly makes a difference in the lives of LGBTQ young people–every single day

Outstanding Benefits, Including

Comprehensive health insurance, including plan coverage for various gender affirmation care (and we pay 100% of your employee contribution premiums for medical, dental, vision, AND basic life insurance)

403(b) retirement plan with 3% match

Generous vacation and 13 paid holidays (one of our holidays is Harvey Milk Day!) plus two floating holidays and three half-day Fridays during the summer

Employee Assistance Program to help with confidential emotional support, work-life solutions, financial solutions, legal assistance, or online support

In-network mental health office and virtual visits are covered at 100%, and out-of-network visits are covered at an enhanced level.

Remote work from the continental US, Alaska, or Hawaii (we provide the technology, a monthly internet reimbursement, and reimbursement to outfit your work-from-home space!)

Professional and Learning Development Trainings/Education: including a professional subscription to LinkedIn Learning, providing access to more than 13,000 high-quality on-demand courses.

Online Subscription to Headspace, a digital mindfulness and meditation platform

The Trevor Project provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law or policy. The Trevor Project complies with all applicable laws regarding equal opportunity in employment.

This is a union position. The Trevor Project recently voluntarily recognized The Communications Workers of America (CWA) as the representative of certain employees for collective bargaining purposes, and this position is in the bargaining unit. The Trevor Project is currently negotiating the first collective bargaining agreement with the union that will cover the terms and conditions of employment for this position.

The Trevor Project is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please submit a request here . Please do not disclose medical information in this form–this information will be viewed only by our benefits team and will remain secure. This form is only for those requiring a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process. This form is not an application - you must still apply through The Trevor Project careers website.