Volunteer Community Channel Post-Production Assistant

Volunteer role for 3 - 6 months
Travel expenses reimbursed, subject to maximum weekly amount of £52.00
Daily subsistence reimbursed, subject to a maximum daily amount of £3.60

About Media Trust
At Media Trust we believe that everyone should have a voice and the opportunity to be heard. We are the UK’s leading communications charity. Our corporate members include BBC, Channel 4, Daily Mail and General Trust, Disney Channel UK, Guardian Media Group, IPC Media, ITV, MTV Networks UK and Ireland, News International, OMD, Sky, Virgin Media TV and Warner Bros.

We work with media organisations and charities to enhance their communications and enable communities to find their voice and make it heard. We offer a broad range of marketing and communications resources and training, free professional support from media volunteers and mentors, film and content production, funding for media projects, and the national digital TV and online channel, Community Channel.

Description of role:
Community Channel is the UK’s only TV station dedicated to highlighting issues from the community, voluntary and charitable sector, both locally and internationally.

Volunteer Post-Production Assistant 
We are looking for a Post Production Assistant to work 5 days per week. This is a great opportunity for someone interested in gaining practical experience in a busy broadcast environment. Some experience of working with television technology is very desirable.

You will report to the Head of Post-Production and work within a close team and assist in a range of technical and creative tasks to ensure a smooth production and post-production workflow.

Responsibilities to include:

• Tape digitising in preparation for editing
• File transcoding
• Basic DVD creation
• DVD Duplication (low volume)
• Booking in and out of cameras and related production kit
• Preparation and checking of cameras and related production kit
• Maintaining levels of blank media
• Programme ‘traffic’ editing – checking, preparing and if necessary fixing acquired programmes for broadcast. (potential)
• Promo editing (potential)

Person Specification:

• Quick learner
• Excellent organisational, prioritization and time management skills
• Dependable with great attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Enthusiastic team player
• Proactive and helpful in approach
• Good with technology and troubleshooting technical problems
• Working knowledge of Final Cut Studio (or similar suite of editing programmes)
• Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop (desirable)
• Experience in using spreadsheets and word processing software

Other duties

The Media Trust and Community Channel are tightly resourced, tightly staffed organisations. All employees are therefore expected to show flexibility in their role. You will on occasion be expected to carry out duties not specified in your job description - of both more senior and more junior staff.

We have a number of volunteers working on a range of projects across the organisation. Each volunteer has a specified role and line manager and is also supported by the HR Manager. Media Trust volunteers have a track record of moving into interesting paid opportunities in the media and charity sectors. Recent volunteers are now working in organisations such as Two Hand Productions, Dow Jones, Comic Relief, Markettiers 4dc, and Media Trust.

To apply for this role, please e-mail your CV and covering letter to role@mediatrust.org

The Media Trust values diversity and is an equal opportunities employer. Registered charity no. 1042733