Videographer

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Oak Park and River Forest High School is looking for a Videographer

About:

Oak Park and River Forest High School, or OPRF, is a comprehensive public high school located in Oak Park, Ill., a suburb eight miles due west of downtown Chicago. We are a one-school district, with most of our students coming from two sender districts, River Forest Public Schools District 90 and Oak Park Elementary School District 97. We offer more than 200 courses, a variety of programs for students with special needs, 75 clubs and activities, and 29 competitive sports. We prepare our students well for post-secondary success, with an average ACT composite score of 24 and a 94% graduation rate.

Oak Park and River Forest are communities that highly value diversity. OPRF is a founding member of the national Minority Student Achievement Network, and our school is racially and economically diverse, with about 44% of our 3,300 students identifying as African American, Hispanic, multiracial, or Asian. Our villages have long embraced the LGBTQ community, and we have a significant mix of homeowners and renters.

We seek faculty and staff who have high expectations for all students, and who value student voice in education. As a school, we are particularly focused on closing opportunity gaps for our students of colour.

Location: USA

Job Type: Part-time

Reports to: Executive Director of Educational Technology

Minimum Qualifications:

High school diploma or equivalent
Experience with recording, editing and producing videos
Experience uploading video to web content management tools
Graphic design and/or motion graphics experience a plus
Demonstrated proficiency using Zoom video-conferencing platform and Adobe Creative Suite
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
Excellent project management skills
Demonstrated proficiency in Google Suite Apps
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with frequent interruptions
Ability to set priorities for accomplishing work in a timely and effective manner
Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Availability to work evening meetings that sometimes can run late

Job Summary:

The part-time videographer will be responsible for managing district videography needs for both regularly scheduled and special meetings and events. The assignments will entail pre-meeting preparation, recording during the meetings, and post-meetings production.

Essential Functions:

Before the meeting-

Create Google folder for meeting date in Virtual Event Planning shared drive
Include title slides, public comments form, public comments response form, and participant list

Provide to the Board Secretary:

Public link
Link to public comments form
Link to public comments response form
Email Executive Cabinet to request the list of meeting panelists

On Zoom:

Schedule webinar
Add participants
Set up a reminder email to go out one hour prior
Manually send links at approximately 3 p.m. the day of meeting

During the meeting-

Begin webinar
Pause recording
Begin streaming to YouTube five minutes before meeting start time
Screen share title slide
Enable screen sharing
Resume recording at meeting start time
Run Google timer as needed
Run presentations as needed
Screen share title slides as needed during breaks and during closed session
Stop live stream at end of meeting
Stop recording and end meeting for all

After the meeting-

On YouTube:

Edit the video title to be in this format: D200 Board of Education + Name of Meeting – Date (Ex: D200 Board of Education Special Meeting – Jan. 11, 2021)
Upload the title screen as the thumbnail
Add video to 2020-2021 Board of Education Meetings playlist
Move video to the top of the playlist so that it shows up first on the YouTube channel page
Edit video to trim out the first few minutes prior to the meeting starting. Processing time varies depending on length of video.
Send the link to Board Secretary
Send the link to share on social media to Communications Specialist

On Zoom: