Assistant editors are responsible for a particular subject, such as local news, international news, feature stories, or sports. Most assistant editors work for newspaper publishers, television broadcasters, magazines, book publishers, or advertising and public relations firms.
Assistant Editor Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Assistant Editor to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Correcting minor grammatical/spelling errors;
- Summarize data: The SE will summarize audited data to identify themes and patterns in the audit;
- Ensuring acronyms are spelled out only on first occurrence and that they are correctly defined in the document’s acronym list;
- Human evaluation: The SE will verify the accuracy and relevance of our Search information;
- Applying template styles to text and tables;
- Achieve a 90% yearly utilization rate;
- Captioning figures, tables, and appendixes, and photographs and inserting cross-references;
- Interact with editors and producers to fulfill needed asset preparation for filming or use within the episode;
- Review footage and pull video stills for marketing/promotional use;
- Assists with ingesting and transcoding media to the shared storage servers;
- Suggest ways to improve post-production value and streamline processes;
- Create graphic assets such as title cards and lower thirds from stock files;
- Overall assistance with Post department responsibilities and tasks;
- Store all project files systematically based on electronic files storage guidelines;
- Coordinate, create, and QC final episode deliverables.
Requirements:
- Experience with various file transfer methods such as FTP, Aspera, Dropbox, PIX, Wiredrive;
- Highly proficient in Adobe Premiere and Media Encoder;
- Awareness of YouTube culture, and internet culture, memes, vernacular, etc;
- Experience as an Assistant Editor within a 5+ person post team;
- Creativity/Innovation: Develop new and unique ways to improve operations of the organization and to create new opportunities;
- Proficiency in Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Media Encoder, as well as a basic understanding of After Effects;
- Possess excellent organizational and communication skills;
- Ability to generate and maintain spreadsheets to track data, assets and workflow for various projects;
- Has the ability to multitask and work under tight deadlines;
- Mnimum of 3 years of college course work in English, Literature, Marketing, and/or Social Sciences;
- Prior experience as a DIT or with graphic design is a huge plus;
- Bachelor’s degree;
- Organize: Set priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress towards goals, and track details, data, information and activities;
- Experience as an Assistant Editor on long form (series, feature, or documentary) projects;
- Contributions to school-based or professional publications.