Overview

Do you care about climate change and want to help tell the story of our time?

YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (YEARS), a multi-platform education and communications effort designed to stimulate a national conversation about climate change and to encourage action by the public, legislators and business leaders, seeks a skilled and dedicated editor to bring our successful short-form video content to a growing online audience.

JOB DESCRIPTION
We need a focused and savvy editor well-versed in Adobe Premiere to cut three 1 to 2-minute videos per week for release on social media. We will give you a script for the text to appear on-screen. You will then be responsible for formatting, animating and marrying it to visuals and music from our library or those licensed from other archives to create an informative and compelling short story. While animation, data visualization, knowledge of After Effects and other graphics skills are a plus, they are not required, as we emphasize highly produced, well composed video above all in our content.

You will work under the supervision of a producer for each video you cut, and will be expected to respond to his/her notes after delivering a rough cut and a fine cut. In between you will be expected to work independently and be self-sufficient in sourcing the material in your sequence. Being able to choose and track any appropriate outside archival yourself is a must.

While we intend to create more episodes of our existing series, we also seek someone with the vision, creativity and moxie to collaborate with us in creating new short form series that push the envelope on the kind of videos that can be consumed on social media platforms. While we are interested in broadening our reach in terms of views and likes, we also want to leave viewers with something more impactful – impressions that can compel them to act.

This is a full-time staff position based at our offices in New York City. We will provide a modern edit station and the aid of an assistant editor/media manager. We offer a fairly standard schedule M-F work week, with federal holidays off and paid vacation time. Looking for immediate start.

Come be a part of what The Guardian called “the most important climate change multimedia communication effort in history.”

About National Geographic Channel

YEARS produces highly emotional, character-driven long-form climate storytelling for TV. Season One of the TV series YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY aired on Showtime Networks and went on to win the 2014 Primetime Emmy for nonfiction TV; Season Two aired in 2016 on National Geographic and was broadcast in 170 countries.

But YEARS also creates short-form content for social media, where we are rapidly becoming a bit of a powerhouse. We use our presence on social (mainly Facebook) to continue to engage audiences on climate change via news reports, animations, a large library of video content and new productions which hit upon the solutions, the continued impacts, the science and the politics:

· YEARS GRAPHIC NOVELS, CUTDOWNS & EXTRA SCENES: shortened versions of our Season One and Season Two content in the form of 3-, 4- and 5-minute videos, some fashioned as “video graphic novels” and others as text-heavy videos that are optimized for shareability on social media (sample video here);

· #WE CAN SOLVE THIS: videos focusing on the many solutions to climate change, with an emphasis on the most cost-effective, including those identified in the two seasons of YEARS; newly-identified solutions; efforts made by individuals, businesses, communities and governments to address the problem (sample video here);

· BOILING THE FROG: a series of videos starring SENATOR AL FRANKEN, who provides a front-row seat on what’s happening in DC with regard to climate, all with a much-needed bit of levity (watch here);

· #CLIMATE FACTS: a video series chronicling the many ways climate change continues to impact society, and the various breakthroughs the climate science community makes every day in perfecting our understanding of what is happening (sample video here);

· CLIMATE HEROES: an ongoing series of short-form pieces showcasing the work of the world’s leading climate scientists as they try to understand the greatest threat humanity has ever known;

· #OUR KIDS FUTURE: videos focus on the efforts made by a powerful few to determine the fate of the rest of the planet;

· #NEWS OF THE DAY: videos responding to and explaining breaking news on climate (sample video here);

· ROBERT REICH PARTNERSHIP: a series of videos with economist and former Labor Secretary ROBERT REICH illustrating the economic opportunities afforded by addressing climate change (sample video here);

· CERES/YEARS PROJECT: a series showcasing the solutions to climate change being enacted by leading brands, the intended audience being corporate America, which has stepped up in acting on climate following the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris agreement (sample video here).

We now have more followers on Facebook than any other environmental group aside from Greenpeace International (2.2 million). And we are actively expanding our partner network to include top shelf media brands, celebrities and influencers with a combined audience of more than 130 million.