Media Specialist

3 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 2U Full time
At 2U, we are all in on purpose.

We are motivated by our mission - to eliminate the back row in education - and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale.

As the parent company of edX, the world's leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings - from free courses to full degrees.

Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

What We're Looking For:

The Media Specialist works within the 2U Learning division as part of the Media Operations team. This role strikes a balance between administrative post-production coordination tasks as well as hands-on technical tasks.

As a member of the media management support team, they will be directly involved in coordinating and executing various post-production workflows from acquisition of raw media through final delivery of academic products.

They will also work with all ancillary post-production related equipment and peripherals that enable the ingest, transcode, video editing, motion graphics, audio mixing, color correction, video quality assurance, and delivery of media assets.

This role will collaborate with internal 2U stakeholders including the media operations team, video producers, and video editors as well as with outside vendors.

A successful Media Specialist will have strong technical, organizational, and problem solving skills to help manage the video/media post-production process.

They will remain self-motivated and have a positive presence while managing the delivery workflow for multiple projects in a fast-moving environment.

They must pay unwavering attention to detail while staying focused on our ultimate goal of delivering a polished product in a timely manner.


Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

  • (Ongoing) Support media operations and post production staff in managing various aspects of media workflows/processes
- (Ongoing) Communication between internal stakeholders and vendors, regarding video/media requests, project requirements, and deadlines

  • Coordinate course postproduction schedules, ingest, editing, video quality assurance, and final delivery assignments, and help track and maintain media asset deliverables via various systems and reports
  • Execute filebased ingest workflows of various formats of acquired raw media, including onlocation, studio, and zoom media, including troubleshooting technical issues as they arise with support from Engineering team
  • Coordinate and execute assigned mediarelated requests including partner asset requests
  • Take on additional duties and responsibilities as required

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

  • 3+ years of professional video/digital media post-production and/or media operations experience.
  • Proven ability to exercise sound decision making in a fastpaced environment.
  • Experience with Digital/Media Asset Management software, and/or Product/Project Management Systems-Atlassian, Jira a bonus.
  • Familiarity with metadata best practices with media management environment.
  • Working knowledge of related postproduction software including Adobe Creative Suite (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop) and/or other NLE systems. Video editing skills are preferred.
  • Understanding of various media formats including resolution, size, and video frame rate.
  • Experience with various technology and software solutions such as Google apps, Microsoft Office, Amazon Web Services, Slack and overall websavviness.
  • Impeccable verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate in a courteous, tactful, and concise manner.
  • Supremely organized, uses good judgment, and capable of handling multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
  • A positive, proactive and collaborative attitude.

Benefits & Culture


Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education.

We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful.

If you're excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us-and do work that makes a difference.

#NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work/life balance.

Full-time, ZA benefits include:

  • 2 complimentary Getsmarter short courses per year
  • Subsidised medical aid with Discovery Health Medical Scheme
  • 4% 2U contribution towards Discovery Life Pension Fund and Group Risk Benefit
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Generous leave policy including time off to volunteer for nonprofit organization, study leave, sports leave and a companywide festive season break

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