VICE is the world's preeminent youth media company and content creation studio. Launched in 1994, VICE now operates in over 30 countries and distributes its programming to hundreds of millions of viewers across digital, linear, mobile, film and socials. VICE includes an international network of digital channels, a television and feature film production studio, a magazine, a record label, an in-house creative services agency, a book-publishing division and a new 24-hour TV channel, VICELAND, launching in in the UK and Ireland in September 2016.

Role:

The primary role of the Assistant Editor is to aide all stages of the post production process from ingest and project preparation through to final delivery for short-form documentary and breaking news content. This role requires an extremely high attention to detail, a solid technical understanding and the ability to work well under pressure. Experience in a news, or similar fast-turn around, environment is highly desirable. Multiple language skills will be an advantage.

Responsibilities:

- Managing media delivered in the office, online or from the field, ensuring it is efficiently loaded into projects
- Syncing multiple camera shoots and creating string outs and selects sequences for editors
- Encoding and uploading final films to multiple platforms in the relevant format, i.e. Aframe, YouTube, Signiant and website CMS's.
- Facilitating the delivery of content to the US TV show, ensuring it's delivered to the appropriate broadcast technical specification and on time
- Creating all of the deliverables for playout inc masters, metadata and audio deliverables.
- Creating basic graphics using After Effects templates
- Quality control - Final check for subs issues, correct cards used, any drop outs, sound issues etc. before sending it to the online editor.
- General Post-Production duties; which may include ingesting of media, delivering links to Producers and general troubleshooting.
- Organising reports for music cues, transcripts and archive logs. Sending final deliverables to the producer.
- Managing and actioning editing revisions as required.
- Pushing necessary assets required to ensure edits are maintained to tight deadlines.
- Be actively aware and responsible for implementing Vice News style guide.
- Moving content from LTO tape and the Archive SAN as needed. Must have knowledge of archive tape workflows.
- Coordinating the delivery of offline assets to internal onlining. Must understand offline to online processes.
- Assisting Video Editors through all stages of the editing process including basic technical troubleshooting.
- Creating basic graphics (including motion) in After Effects using templates.
- Copy-checking English subtitles and double checking translations as required.

Other:
- To undertake such other tasks including general administrative duties as may be required from time to time.
- To be an ambassador for the business at all times.

Working Hours:
- Normal 7.5 hour day, which may be scheduled on rotation between 8am and midnight as required.
- Due to the nature of News reporting a certain degree of flexibility in working hours is expected

Other:
• To undertake such other tasks including general administrative duties as may be required from time to time
• To be an ambassador for the business at all times.

To apply please email a brief cover note and CV. Please include your notice period and salary expectations in your application.

We look forward to hearing from you!

If you do not hear back from us within one month of applying then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. Thank you once again for applying and we wish you success in your future career.