Are you an experienced digital filmmaker? An exceptional storyteller? Do you enjoy working on documentary-style projects with a talented team? Are you searching for an opportunity to use your gifts and skills to help spread Christ-centered truths around the world? If so, we’d love to talk with you about this opening.

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a well-rounded digital filmmaker to lead our video-content-creation efforts that support our curriculum development, marketing, and customer-success objectives. Here are the key responsibilities of the position:

Video storytelling & documentary-style video production: These two are the core/foundational responsibilities of the job. You must excel at them. In this role you’ll be responsible for the end-to-end development of stand-alone video stories and long-format documentary style videos that are used in our various curricula and support the efforts of our marketing and customer support objectives. This involves:

• Identifying interviewees
• Planning and conducting pre-interviews and interviews
• Mining our interview database to craft new stories 
• Coming up with story angles
• Selecting and arranging bites (quotes) to build stories
• Working with our Sr. Writer and Content developer to plan curriculum video content
• Shooting & editing video content

Digital asset management/archiving: You will be responsible for the collecting and transferring of all digital files from memory cards to our in-house network, managing digitally archived content, and archiving non-digital legacy footage.

Tasks you’ll execute and/or manage

• Contractor management: You’ll be responsible to hire and manage additional contract and part-time members of our video team (colorists, audio and lighting technicians, etc). You’ll also establish the preferred work flows for yourself and other video staff and contractors. 
• Managing, designing and maintaining in-studio set: You will oversee the design, building and modification of our in-studio set based on each video project needs. You will budget, manage and maintain all studio pieces and upgrade or replace as needed. You will need to dress each set to portray a real life environment and light the set and background accordingly.
• Shoot interviews at in house studio set: You will be in charge of the capture of all video and audio of all video projects shot on set. You will also oversee live streaming the shoots to stakeholders for set approvals and for their own personal monitoring. 
• Out-of-studio shots and productions: You’ll be responsible for the planning, coordination and execution of remote shoots. You’ll be assisted by our internal admin-support team in this type of work.

Tasks you’ll collaborate on with our staff: 

• Content creation: Work closely with copywriters, videographers, designers, and developers to bring creative ideas to life.
• Video style and format selection: You’ll work with our Art Director and other content creators to identify and recommend visual styles and formats that help our materials produce intended results.Once styles are selected/agreed upon, you’ll be responsible to make sure that staff and contract videographers capture and create content in accordance with our style guides. 
• Recommending video equipment purchases and rentals: You’ll work with our IT team to make recommendations for the purchase and rental of resources we’ll need on set and in our editing bays. 

Reporting

Our Lead Digital Filmmaker/Producer day-to-day responsibilities are managed by our ministry’s Operations and Program Manager. At a project-level, you’ll report to various stakeholders, working on a variety of projects, primarily serving our VP of Marketing, or our VP of Customer Success, or partnering with our Sr. Writer and Content Developer to create curriculum and training materials. Each of them will provide feedback on your annual performance review (in addition to other team members). 

You’re the right person for this job if ...

You’re a strong storyteller with 5–7 years of experience shooting, editing, and producing films that:

• Influence people’s thinking and attitudes with Christ-centered principles
• Motivate people to act in ways consistent with a Christ-centered worldview
• Match or exceed the production quality of the secular media/content people consume

We’d also like you to have experience:

• Shooting and editing (Knowledge and mastery of the Adobe ecosystem is preferred (PremierPro, AfterEffects, Illustrator, etc.) )
• Managing multiple projects at the same time
• Hiring and managing digital creatives (videographers, editors, graphic designers, and freelance artists)
• Producing short and long-format programming
• Working with teams to create high-quality content

We’re also looking for someone who is:

• Detailed oriented: You’ll be responsible for making sure content is polished to the appropriate degree required at each stage of the production process, before it’s reviewed by supervisors and/or stakeholders.
• Obsessed with creating high-quality content: We need someone who takes pride in creating high-quality content and takes the initiative to do so.
• Collaborative: We have a great team, it’s important that you’re able to work well with them
• Adaptive: Even the best plans need to be adjusted. We need someone who understands that and can respond well to the resulting changes 
• A self-starter/solution oriented: If you see something that needs to be fixed or addressed, we need you to address it, through proper channels. 

Required character

This position plays a central role in a Christian ministry, so it is important that applicants possess saving faith in Jesus Christ, actively participate in and belongs to a local church, and consistently demonstrate Christlike character (Gal. 5:22 -25, 2 Pet. 1:5 - 9, Rom. 12:6 - 21).

Starting salary and benefits

The salary range for this position starts at $59,500 per year. 

Benefits Summary

Group Health, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Group health, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you, if selected, is part of your compensation package. This means the ministry will pay the entire individual, or family, premium (100%) for Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, but duplicate coverage is not supported. Our health insurance carrier is currently Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC. Our current plan does not have a mandatory waiting period and, if selected, coverage begins on the first day of employment.

There are medical payments for which you are responsible, but we have both an HSA and HRA (Health Savings or Reimbursement Account) plan to provide significant help. In addition to the employee’s HSA contributions, the ministry contributes up to $1,950 (family) or $975 (individual). 

More detailed information is contained in the section, “More on our Insurance Plan”.

We realize that the information about our health plan might seem complex at first. We will be happy to review the details with you so that you have a better understanding of how it works. We will also work with you and the insurance company to submit all required documentation, should you elect coverage.

401k

The ministry offers a 401K plan that currently provides a 4% employer match for a 5% employee contribution each year. There is a six-month (within which 500 hours must be worked) waiting period.

Disability, Worker's Compensation, & Unemployment Insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance, which covers a portion of your salary in the event you are disabled and cannot work for an extended period of time.
• Workers compensation insurance in the event you are injured on the job which helps to offset medical bills. These benefits are subject to income taxation.
• Unemployment insurance if required by the State in which you live.

Life Insurance

Term life insurance coverage up to 1x annual base salary (plus accidental death and dismemberment coverage for the same amount).

Paid Holidays

Church Initiative provides its employees with the following 11 paid holidays, when they fall on a scheduled workday, or an alternative day off when falling on a weekend.:

• New Year's Day
• Presidents’ Day
• Good Friday
• Memorial Day
• Independence Day 
• Labor Day
• Columbus Day
• Thanksgiving Day & the Day after Thanksgiving
• Christmas Eve & Christmas Day

Paid Vacation & Sick Leave

80 hours paid vacation leave each year, available as accrued. Please note, only a 40 hour balance for vacation leave is allowed to carry forward past the calendar year end. While the maximum balance is 40 hours, the carried forward balance can fluctuate between 40 and zero depending upon leave used and accrued each calendar year. After four years of continuous full-time service a third week of vacation is available for accrual and use.

Forty-eight (48) hours paid sick leave, available as accrued and approved. This equates to 2.00 sick leave hours accrued for each of the 24 payroll cycles. Please note, this leave does not vest, meaning leave not taken by January 1 of the succeeding year is lost.

Vacation and sick leave can be granted as earned and approved by your supervisor, subject to workflow requirements and ministry policy. The granting of leave before it is earned or accrued is considered on a case-by-case basis. 

Serve & Grow

Full-time employees are eligible for up to 3 days paid time-off each calendar year to volunteer with an eligible non-profit or ministry, or to be used for Christian-based spiritual training, events, or mission trips.

Recuperative Maternity Leave

Birth mothers receive 4-6 weeks of recuperative leave up to 2/3 base pay.

Parental Bonding Leave

Birth, adoptive, and foster parents receive three weeks of 100% paid leave for use within 6 months of a birth or placement.

Bereavement

5 days paid time-off available for the loss of an immediate family member, mother-in-law, or father-in-law. Up to 15 additional days with approval.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Employees and their eligible family members have access to EAP services at no additional cost, including professional counseling, legal, financial, and work/life services.