Carbon Brief is looking for a multimedia producer to join their team for four weeks in June to cover paternity leave.

Main Duties Include:

• Producing new multimedia content for Carbon Brief articles. Type of content can include graphic design, mapping, interactive data visualisation, animation, video, and other media. 
• Producing content for social media platforms, including graphics, videos and gifs.
• Working on larger interactive web features, frame-working, and testing features on our subdomain.
• Image sourcing, editing and uploading to WordPress.
• Recording, editing and uploading video to social media.
• Produce content that follows house-style guidelines, and working to deadline.

Essential Skills:

• An eye for design; excellent graphic design skills.
• Experience working with Adobe Suite, including: 
  • Creating flat graphics and images with Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Animating data and video graphics with After Effects (In-house training provided, where necessary)
• Experience creating web content, with a good understanding of social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Youtube, as well as how best to format and utilise content for each one.
• Good understanding of content management systems, particularly WordPress.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working with data, such as cleaning and reformatting data, and visualising tools such as Highcharts (training provided).
• Confident working in HTML, CSS and Javascript (training provided).
• Experience working with mapping software including QGIS and Mapbox (training provided).
• Experience in video production and editing; good shooting skills. Editing video and audio with Premiere Pro and Audition.
• Good understanding working with Google Docs, Sheets, Trello and Slack. 
• Knowledge and experience working with Tableau, Github, AWS/S3. 

Contract Details & To Apply:

Duration: Four weeks, Mon-Fri, likely to commence mid-June 2020. A flexible start date of up to two weeks either side of mid-June is preferable. 

Location: Remote/Working from Home. 

Daily Rate: £160

To Apply: Please send a CV and recent examples of work to tom.prater@carbonbrief.org by Monday, 11 May. Do make sure to mention Journo Resources in your application – it really helps us out. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Carbon Brief.

About Carbon Brief: 

Carbon Brief is a UK-based website covering the latest developments in climate science, climate policy and energy policy. We specialise in clear, data-driven articles and graphics to help improve the understanding of climate change, both in terms of the science and the policy response. We publish a wide range of content, including science explainers, interviews, analysis and factchecks, as well as daily and weekly email summaries of newspaper and online coverage.