1st Team Edit Assistant Producer

Location:

Manchester, GB

Opening Date: 17 Jul 2024

Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date of Applications - 31/07/24

Our Story

Established in 2013, City Football Group is the world’s leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world. City Football Group also invests in other football related businesses and serves as a global commercial platform for our partners, whilst fulfilling our purpose of empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale, consistent with what “City” football has meant to people for over a century.

Our Winning Team

Our purpose is to empower better lives through football. We are proud of the role City Football Group clubs play in their localities, delivering positive economic, social and environmental impact through our operations and through programmes and activities that bring about meaningful, lasting change.

The successful candidate will work as part of the First Team embedded content unit, working on day to day edit requests from both first team and the wider business, editing behind the scenes footage for the Inside City strand, whilst also maintaining a detailed logging document for footage captured during the 24/25 season.

Are you a football fan with a passion for video and social media, knows what it is that makes a good story and relish in the challenge of producing high quality content?

Within this role, you will produce videos of the highest quality and optimal length for a variety of distribution platforms, for web, social and internal business presentations. We are looking for the right candidate to be highly organised and proficient in the use of Adobe Premiere Pro (with knowledge of other Adobe Creative Suite products), as well as a good working knowledge of a Production workflow within Adobe Premiere is a plus. You will be highly organised, and continually open and willing to learn new systems & workflows. There is no requirement in this role to film or capture content, but an understanding of the process within an edit workflow is a plus.

This is Your City

As part of our team, you will be entitled to 26 days annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, private healthcare and a simply health cash plan, an annual discretionary bonus, plus a range of partnership and lifestyle discounts.

Your Impact

1. Produce episodes of Inside City regularly under the guidance of the First Team Producers, using behind the scenes footage captured by the Producers during the week. Optimising the output of Inside City for various platforms across the Man City Social estate.

2. Be well organised and able to create a detailed logging document/Raw edit of footage captured across the 24/25 season

3. Develop positive working relationships with staff and contributors. Be an effective and committed team player.

4. Be able to identify developing stories throughout the season, considering the sensitivities of a First Team football environment.

5. Be agile to internal footage and edit requests from First Team staff, the wider business and outside media/broadcasters – Logging those requests and identifying any sensitivities with footage sharing

What we are looking for

Essential

• Experience (whether full time or work placement) in a professional production environment, preferably in sports production.
• Understanding the difference in how Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and OTT platforms treat video, and how this affects the production process.
• Working knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro, and a willingness to further develop video editing skills and use of Creative Cloud.
• Flexibility (weekend working), strong ideation, working in a multi-camera environment.
• Ability to conduct self professionally when dealing with high-profile contributors.

Desirable

• Degree in Media/Television Production,
  or another subject combined with a demonstrable passion for video content.
• Ingesting and organising sensitive or high-profile media.
• Experience of editing under time constraints.
• Understanding the process of logging footage and creating organised file structures for future use.
• Evidence of identifying trends early and maximising content opportunities.

City Football Group promotes equal opportunities in employment and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We will screen all applicants and select candidates whose skills and experience seem to meet our needs. We will carefully consider your application during the initial screening and will contact you only if you are selected for an interview.

Employment is subject to the provision of proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Due to our safeguarding promise, all UK based CFG roles will be subject to a DBS check upon commencing employment with us. This will be either a basic, standard or enhanced check depending on the job role and responsibilities.

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