Description
Position Title: Multimedia Asset Manager
Reports to: Associate Director of Multimedia
Employment Type: Full-time with up to 25% travel international and domestic
Location: Employees in this role can work from our Boston, MA office, remotely within the U.S. or hybrid of these two options.
[Portfolio must be included]
Position Description:
The Multimedia Asset Manager plays a critical role responsible for overseeing, organizing, editing, distributing, curating, archiving, and otherwise managing the organizationโs multimedia assets. Multimedia assets may be photos/images, videos, or branded materials.
The Manager accompanies the global multimedia staff members with the transfer of their visual assets either in person or through online platforms with the focus on secure back-ups, complete metadata, and empowering decentralized access.
The Manager must be highly organized, and exercise independent judgement and discretion in the process of creating and maintaining a strong file management system that improves the efficiency of a team and organization. They must be able to quickly distribute or advise several potential assets to the Marcomms and Resource Generation teams for use on a webpage, in a print/digital campaign, or for overall content development strategy and implementation. These decisions need to be informed by a strong understanding of visual storytelling, ethics, and of Partners In Healthโs (PIH) programs, communities, and values.
Responsibilities
Archiving and Coordination (60%)
- Manage and oversee all systematic and technical aspects of PIHโs digital asset management system.
- Process and organize all raw stills and footage into local backups and prepare appropriate exports for ingest into the digital asset management system.
- Ensure that the audiovisual collection items are accurately catalogued and indexed.
- Collaborate with cross-site colleagues in the use of our digital asset management system, technically, creatively, and administratively.
- Assist in photo and video content gathering during visual content production, as needed.
- Collaborate with Lead Archivist to evolve the digital asset management system.
Editing and Distribution (40%)
- Assist video production team with tagging and selection of images and raw files for inclusion in projects, as well as appropriate collaboration on video projects.
- Curate content collections based on topic, geography, visual mood, visual composition, etc.
- Make appropriate toning and color adjustments to imagery, as needed, with a soft-handed journalistic approach for quality reproduction and correction only.
- Supports Associate Director of Multimedia as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelorโs degree in communications, journalism, film, photography
- 5 or more years of experience establishing, maintaining, and developing the digital asset management system.
- Knowledge of audiovisual library and archives processes and workflows (photo, audio, video and film digitization, appraisal, selection, cataloguing, indexing, research on primary and secondary sources, search/discovery, digital preservation)
- Competency in Photo Mechanic or equivalent batch workflow software (Adobe Bridge, Lightroom)
- Competency in Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Premiere and Photoshop.
- Experience in photo editing with large quantities of images.
- Experience with IPTC metadata and captioning
- Knowledge of non-linear digital editing for audio and video; knowledge of best practices and procedures in digital media management and archives.
- Cultural humility, asking questions rather than making assumptions about media depicting diverse communities.
- Awareness of implicit bias in media
- Familiarity with NPPA Code of Ethics and copyright issues
- Knowledge in photography and/or videography production are a plus
- Interest in social justice strongly desirable.
Organizational Profile
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the worldโs leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governmentsโ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.
As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, United States), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.
Partners In Health (PIH) is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.
Partners In Health participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the
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