Social Video Editor (Part-time)

Company Description

Her Campus Media is the ultimate community-powered Gen Z media and marketing ecosystem, with a portfolio of the largest and most-loved Gen Z media brands and creator communities: Her Campus, Spoon University, College Fashionista, InfluenceHer Collective, Campus Trendsetters, Zfluence, HC Athletic Club, and Generation Hired. Through our community of 100,000+ members, footprint across 2,000+ colleges, and social reach of well over 1 billion, we're unlocking opportunities for the next generation while serving as the one-stop-shop Gen Z marketing partner for the world's leading brands, who come to us to ensure their Gen Z relevancy and devise and power award-winning end-to-end Gen Z marketing strategies and campaigns. 

We help brands build relevancy with the next generation through our trusted college media brands and hyper-engaged communities. We provide a reimagined approach to growth, audience, and future-ready brands for the next generation of consumers with a cohesive, The world’s leading brands trust HCM as their 360-degree Gen Z marketing partner, and HCM has powered state-of-the-art, award-winning college marketing programs for clients.

About our team: Her Campus Media is made up of passionate, entrepreneurial, ambitious doers who are fired up about cultivating the next generation of leaders and change makers. We are a small (~100 employees) but mighty team of individuals, most of whom identify as women, committed to continuing to build a dynamic and inclusive organization where we want to work. Visit our Careers page to learn more about our culture and what makes us tick at hercampusmedia.com/careers!

Job Description

Her Campus Media is searching for a talented Social Video Editor to join the organization’s social media team in a part-time capacity, with a focus on editing social-first video content for HCM’s portfolio of Gen Z-focused media brands, including Her Campus, Spoon University, and College Fashionista. 

This role’s work will primarily be executed using mobile video editing apps like Capcut, Prequel, Edits, Canva, etc., but an understanding of Adobe Premiere Pro is also required.

The role will report into HCM’s Director of Social. This is a remote opportunity, and candidates must be available to work 3-4 set shifts per week for a total of 20 hours per week. 

In your application, please include a link to a portfolio or links to examples of previous social video work.

• Use mobile video editing tools to create engaging social-first video edits from HCM original video footage (interviews, junkets, self-shot footage, etc.) and sourced video footage (vodcasts, curated compilations, etc.)

• Employ strong editorial and social judgement to build engaging narratives and identify footage for punchy, snackable social cutdowns

• Make creative decisions on framing, cutaways, zooms, sound effects, captions, and text to enhance storytelling and viewer experience

• Work with each deliverable’s intended platform in mind and optimize accordingly

• When required, redirect heavier, more premium edits to Premiere Pro

• Set and maintain a video workflow for HCM, from rough cut to final deliverables, including the archiving and organizing of footage and tracking the use of licensed content

• Maintain a video production calendar in Asana, keeping track of when deliverables are expected to go live and where they’re at in process of getting there

• Quality control work, ensuring only the highest quality deliverables are provided to the team for publication

• Regularly monitor social media trends and app developments, working these into video concepts where appropriate

• Identify and act on opportunities to reuse/repurpose HCM editorial video content

Qualifications

The candidate should have both solid social news judgment and a strong understanding of what makes a vertical video perform across social platforms, identifying the key moments in both original HCM video and sourced video content that speak to these trends. Across all our brands, our audiences and our teams are chronically online, and so is the ideal candidate, who has their finger on the pulse of what Gen Zalpha are talking about online and why, and can spot viral internet moments and conversations before they happen.  

• ​​​​​​1+ years of experience in short-form video editing

• Proficient in mobile video editing and experience using tools like Capcut, Prequel, Edits, Canva, etc.

• Intermediate user of Adobe Premiere Pro

• Basic understanding of color correction, audio mixing, motion design, and multi-cam editing

• A strong understanding of what makes an effective and watchable video on social media

• Adept at switching workflow based on prioritie