Specialist - Video Production and Editing

The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:

Long-Form Video Editing:

• Edit full-length podcast episodes, product demo videos, impact documentaries, and school/field visit recordings into polished, broadcast-ready content.
• Manage multi-track timelines: sync audio, handle B-roll, pace interviews, and structure narratives for maximum engagement and clarity.
• Apply colour grading, noise reduction, and professional sound mixing to bring raw footage up to publication standard.
• Repurpose long-form content into shorter clips, trailers, and highlight reels for social and digital use.

Short-Form and Social Video Production:

• Stay current with platform trends: aspect ratios, caption styles, hooks, pacing, and audio trends that drive organic reach.
• Work closely with the content team to translate field stories, data points, and impact narratives into shareable visual formats.
• Own the end-to-end production for social videos: ingest, edit, add captions/graphics, export, and hand off ready-to-publish files.

Field Production and Shooting:

• Travel to project sites, schools, NGOs, and partner locations across various states to independently shoot video and photo content.
• Handle on-ground logistics for shoots: equipment setup, framing, lighting adjustments, and audio capture in variable field conditions.
• Conduct or assist with on-camera interviews with students, teachers, and community members, ensuring comfort and authenticity.
• Work with field-style footage (shot on phones or cameras, variable lighting, ambient noise) and bring it up to publication standard in post.

Motion Graphics and Visual Asset Design:

• Create motion graphics for intros, outros, lower-thirds, data visualisations, and animated callouts consistent with the iDream brand.
• Design and animate explainer sequences for product demos and campaign videos.
• Design static and animated visual assets required within video thumbnails, title cards, infographic overlays, and social creatives.
• 20 Build a growing library of reusable motion templates and graphic assets that accelerate production across the team.

Requirements:

• Experience: 1-3 years of hands-on experience in video production and editing, with a demonstrated ability to handle both long-form and short-form content. Strong personal or freelance portfolio work will be considered.
• Short-Form Platform Awareness: A keen eye for what works on Instagram Reels and YouTube.
• Shorts you understand hooks, pacing, caption placement, and the social-first edit intuitively.
• Audio Skills: Comfortable handling multi-track audio, podcast mixing basics, background noise removal, and syncing voice-overs. Podcast or interview edit samples in your portfolio are a strong plus.
• Sector Context: Prior exposure to EdTech, social impact, NGO, or development sector content is a meaningful advantage. Comfort with field-style footage (shot on phones, variable lighting, ambient noise) is a strong differentiator.
• Example Tools: Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, CapCut / InShot, AI Video Tools (Descript / Runway / Firefly), Canva.

Behavioural Traits (Cultural Fit):

• High Velocity and Craft: You are fast without being careless. You take pride in the finish the colour grade, the audio mix, the timing of a cut and you find ways to get there quickly.
• Ownership: You treat every video as yours to see through from raw footage to final publish, not just your section of the timeline.
• Empathy and Ethics: You understand that our videos feature real students and teachers in real classrooms. You handle field footage with sensitivity and tell stories with dignity.
• Curiosity: You follow creators and production studios that push video craft forward, and you bring those influences into your work.
• Work Mode: This is a 100% In-Office role in Gurgaon. Candidates must be comfortable with regular travel to project sites (schools/NGOs) for field shoots and recordings across various states.