The Media Producer plays a critical role in bringing the Pepperdine Brand to life through compelling imagery and storytelling. This role is responsible for creating high impact photography and video assets by documenting the many facets of Pepperdine’s brand story including academic, spiritual, athletic, social, and extracurricular life on campus and off-campus. The Media Producer will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of their video and photo projects including reviewing all footage, pulling selects, and performing editing on both photos and videos. This role will produce and deploy compelling media-based initiatives for recruitment, fund raising, social media and external communications, consistently delivering high quality assets representing the University brand standards. This role combines technical proficiency, creative styles, and modern photographic techniques and cinematographic styles to capture marketing messages for the University. Photographic techniques include landscape, photo-journalism, sports, stock, and portraits that are posed, candid, and staged photography. Cinematographic styles include documentary, interview, sports, commercial, drone, and staged.

Integrated Marketing Communications is directly tasked with supporting the University's mission and strategic plan by building brand equity, elevating the University's national reputation, providing strong and consistent institutional message leadership, and implementing effective marketing and communication strategies. The photographer is directly tasked with a critical role in helping the department accomplish its goals.

Duties

• Video Production - The Media Producer will be required to act independently, be innovative and think creatively to determine the optimal setup to produce high-quality  footage by using appealing compositions, lighting and directing techniques. The Media Producer will be expected to effectively troubleshoot mechanical, sound, focus and lighting issues to visually tell the Pepperdine story through compelling footage and interviews, all shot with a creative vision utilizing best practices and industry standards. The Media Producer also serves as the licensed drone operator. 
• Photography - Produce professional quality digital photographs as required by IMC. Includes planning, coordinating and executing photo assignments, in studio and on-location, including photo-journalism, sports, landscape, events and general marketing. 
• Image Editing - Perform expert level editing utilizing Adobe Creative Suite, including incorporating filters and tools to lightly correct and touch up photos, prepare digital camera raw files and JPG images to achieve desired results for immediate use. 
• Video Editing - Reviewing all footage, pulling selects, and editing the videos. Perform expert level editing utilizing Adobe Creative Suite, including incorporating color adjustments, sound sweetening and graphics to achieve desired results for immediate use on a variety of channels. 
• Asset Management - Determine the selected "best" shots. Transfer and log all selected files into a shared storage device. Maintain a central organizational system. Apply accurate and effective metadata to photographs for individual and batch file retrieval. 
• Video Documentation - Use discretion to record video that captures campus life based events and showcases various features on all campuses. Record b-roll including classes, meetings, facilities, and events represented in testimonial interviews.
• Consultation, Planning, Scheduling - Independently negotiate priorities, coordinate assignments, and maintain calendars. Perform customer outreach to plan, consult and determine client needs on all requests. Utilize project management software to update project status and store all pertinent records. Collaborate with the Integrated Marketing team and university partners on strategic and creative approaches to projects involving abstract or technical content to meet objectives within time and cost constraints. Propose new video initiatives, assist in document writing, as well as research and maintain expertise in technology trends and best practices. 
• Resource Maintenance - maintain a variety of photography/videography equipment and resources including but not limited to; a fully equipped studio, light modifiers, Digital SLR and mirrorless cameras, mobile lighting equipment, and audio equipment. 
• Perform other duties as assigned. 
• Uphold University mission through work performed. 

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Skills and Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Media Production, Journalism, Film/Television Production, Photography, or similar field.
• Two plus years experience in photography or digital video production within marketing, advertising, news media, or creative agency.
• Demonstrates initiative and creativity. Entrepreneurial, proactive and resourceful.
• Awareness of contemporary trends in photography and videography
• Ability to manage a variety of simultaneous projects, excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, mature judgment, and diplomacy required to interact effectively with and provide customer service to a broad audience.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as effectively in a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to manage a variety of simultaneous projects: has excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Strong collaborator with demonstrated experience successfully working with peers and leadership.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• 2+ years of technical experience using photography equipment, including but not limited to various camera systems, lighting and lighting modifiers.
• 2+ plus years in digital video production, lighting, and audio recording. Including use of DSLR/Mirrorless based videography, cinema camera systems, drones, stabilizers, LED & tungsten lights, field sound recorders, microphones, and safety procedures.
• 2+ years experience with Adobe CS Premiere, Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw, Audition, Acrobat, Media Encoder/Compressor, and other relevant Creative Cloud applications.
• 2+ years experience with PowerPoint, Keynote, Office, and Google Suite.
• Submission of a digital portfolio with samples of photo and video work.