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Join Oak National Academy as a Freelance Video Editor and elevate educational content with your expertise
Overview
Salary
£128
Location
100% remote/UK
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Oak National Academy is an innovative online education platform dedicated to enhancing pupil outcomes and bridging the educational gap. By collaborating with partners, Oak provides teachers with access to exceptional curriculum development, deep subject knowledge, and top-notch learning design, all featuring high-quality video content. It's an exciting time to join a team committed to educational excellence and making a real difference.
- Provide expert video editing for educational content
- Seamlessly overlay slides to rectify mistakes
- Enhance video and audio quality with professional color correction, sound mixing, and graphics
- Edit videos to streamline flow and timing
- Maintain brand consistency across video content
- Add proper attributions to copyrighted materials
- Export videos in required formats and meet all project deadlines
- Prior video editing experience, preferably in an educational setting
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud and similar software
- Ability to work with various technologies, including Google workspaces
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Strong command of the English language
- Capacity to work swiftly and efficiently
This role is perfect for self-employed freelancers seeking flexible hours with a minimum commitment of 16 hours per week. The assignment period spans from October 2024 to July 2025, offering a competitive rate of £128 per day. Applicants will be evaluated based on responses to application questions, with a potential task submission review for those who score successfully. While CVs are collected, initial application sifting is done 'blind' to ensure a fair and unbiased process.
Please note that whilst we capture CVs as part of the application process, the initial sifting of applications occurs 'blind' and is based purely on the responses to the admin questions and sift questions. So please include sufficient detail as we won't have visibility of your CV at this stage. Please also make sure that you answer each question independently of each other, as they will be reviewed randomly, and the hiring panel will not know who the responses are from and how they relate to other questions at the initial sifting stage.
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
Oak National Academy is a unique educational platform, created by experts, that aims to improve pupil outcomes and close the disadvantage gap. Our partners, alongside Oak, have been working hard to put the best curriculum thinking, deepest subject expertise and smartest learning design at the fingertips of teachers, this includes high-quality video content.
We are looking for a talented Freelance Video Editor to support our production team to produce high quality educational videos. We welcome applications from anyone who meets our criteria, but are particularly keen to receive applications from people with experience in video editing within an Education setting.
This opportunity is for a self-employed freelancer (sole trader, NOT a limited company or agency).
Please note, Oak National Academy will review your application questions first, following successful scoring a review of your task submission will be conducted. As such, not all elements of your application may be reviewed to determine the outcome.
DUE TO THE VOLUME OF APPLICATIONS WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE THE ROLE EARLY.
Scope
- Overlaying slides to correct errors
- Enhancing video and audio quality, including colour correction, sound mixing, and graphics integration
- Cutting a section of video to improve flow and timing
- Ensuring video content is consistent with branding guidelines
- Adding attributions to copyrighted video or images
- Exporting final files to the specified format
- Meeting project deadlines and delivering completed videos within specified time frame
Knowledge, skills and experience
- Previous video editing experience;
- Skilled at using industry-standard software e.g. Adobe CC
- Competent working with and adapting to a variety of technologies, including digital products - Oak is a tech-driven organisation, primarily using Google workspaces;
- Excellent attention to detail
- Have a high standard of English, including punctuation and grammar,
- Able to work at pace.
Rate: £128 per day - some flexibility in hours and days may be available with a minimum of 16 hours required of the role.
Assignment period: October 2024 - July 2025
