Multimedia Communications Specialist

PLEASE NOTE BEFORE APPLYING: This is a full-time, six-month contract position and is not eligible for full-time employee benefits. Candidates must be able to work a hybrid schedule from our McLean, Virginia office + other event locations.

Job Description

Are you passionate about using video, photography, and digital storytelling to bring an organization’s mission and impact to life? Do you work well in a fast-paced environment where you can move from concept and production to editing and publishing while maintaining a high standard of quality? If you are a creative, versatile communicator who collaborates well across teams and can produce compelling content for internal and external audiences, then Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for you!

Key Responsibilities

The Multimedia Communications Specialist develops high-quality visual and digital content that strengthens the TRSS brand and communicates the organization’s mission, culture, and impact. This role manages multimedia projects from planning through final delivery, producing audience-focused content for internal communications, social media, events, presentations, and external channels while maintaining brand, accessibility, and security, standards. As the Multimedia Communications Specialist, you will also contribute to a variety of areas including:

• Planning and producing multimedia content from concept through delivery, including interviews, employee stories, event recaps, leadership messages, social clips, internal updates, and mission-focused features.
• Capturing high-quality video and photography using professional cameras and/or iPhone at company events, office visits, interviews, and employee features.
• Editing and delivering polished content on accelerated timelines while maintaining strong narrative flow, visual quality, audio clarity, caption accuracy, and brand consistency.
• Developing scripts, interview questions, storyboards, shot lists, captions, and short-form copy that align with communications objectives and audience needs.
• Creating motion graphics, animated lower thirds, title cards, transitions, and other branded visual elements that improve clarity.
• Partnering with Communications, Revenue, and business leaders to translate complex or technical topics into compelling visual stories.
• Preparing content for The Den (TRSS Intranet), LinkedIn, YouTube, presentations, and other internal and external channels, adapting format, length, tone, and specifications for each platform.
• Coordinating production logistics, including scheduling, lighting, audio, b-roll, equipment, and shot lists.
• Organizing and maintaining a searchable library of videos, photos, project files, templates, and brand assets.
• Applying accessibility best practices, including accurate captions, readable graphics, appropriate contrast, and clear audio, across multimedia deliverables.
• Handling sensitive, confidential, or mission-related content with discretion and care, including subject matter involving child safety and human trafficking.
• Monitoring multimedia trends, tools, and platform practices and recommending improvements that improve quality, efficiency, and engagement.

Required Qualifications

You are a good fit for the role of Multimedia Communications Specialist if you have/are:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, film, video production, marketing, digital media, or a related field. Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of experience producing multimedia, video, and digital communications in a professional environment.
• Demonstrated experience planning, shooting, editing, and delivering video content for internal and external communications.
• Strong proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, or comparable professional video editing software.
• Working knowledge of Adobe After Effects and design tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, or Canva for motion graphics and branded visual content.
• Experience filming with professional equipment including cameras, iPhones, stabilizers, lavalier microphones, and basic lighting kits.
• Ability to capture clear interviews, events, employee stories, and b-roll in office and field settings.
• Basic photography and photo-editing skills
• Strong writing and editorial skills, with the ability to develop scripts, interview questions, captions, and short-form copy for video and social content.
• Experience with audio cleanup, transcription, captioning, and accessibility practices using tools such as Adobe Audition, Descript, or similar tools.
• Experience collaborating and publishing through platforms such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Frame.io, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
• A portfolio or work samples demonstrating video production, editing, visual storytelling, and short-form digital content.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. national security clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship is required to comply with government contract, agency, or Federal Government requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience producing content in a mission-driven, technology, government contracting, national security, or professional services environment.
• Experience creating short-form video optimized for LinkedIn and YouTube.
• Advanced experience with motion graphics, animated lower thirds, color correction, sound design, or multi-camera editing.
• Experience supporting executive communications, internal campaigns, employee engagement, or employer brand storytelling.
• Familiarity with content performance metrics and the ability to use audience insights to improve future content.
• Experience developing reusable production templates.

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What’s in it For You?

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our commitment of empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include paid leave, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $48,000 USD - $89,100 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace. Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at View email address on joinrs.com. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here. Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here. More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com