Royal Media Services Limited is the largest electronic Media House in Kenya. Home to the most popular television and radio channels according to audience share, at Royal Media Services we fashion our programming primarily to connect with our audiences.

Code – HRD/TVP/VE/01/2024

Summary

Royal Media Services Limited is recruiting for the above position. We are looking for a trained creative Video Editor with great production and organizational skills. The jobholder is expected to be a team player, a problem solver with great attention to detail and possess a clear understanding of overall content production process.

The jobholder’s role will include the following:

• Manage the post-production process of Video production by digitizing and organizing raw footage into polished pieces suitable for broadcast.
• Assemble recorded footage into a finished project that tells a cohesive story, matches productions’ vision and meets broadcast standards
• Convert, download and capture footage from various sources (camera persons, producers, talent)
• Work with and creatively manipulate raw camera footage, dialogue, sound effects, graphics and special effects.
• Cut shot sequences to different angles at specific points in scenes, making each individual cut as fluid and seamless as possible.
• Receive and internalize brief to grasp production team’s needs and specifications
• Review shooting script and raw material to create a shot decision list based on scenes’ value and contribution to continuity
• Creatively Input music, dialogue, graphics and effects
• Create/acquire and update, maintain database of key production elements (music, graphics, sfx)
• Ensure logical sequencing of finished product
• Mastering finished products in time and archiving existing projects to ensure that sufficient resources exist to allow for new projects.
• Continuously discover and implement new editing technologies and industry’s best practices to maximize efficiency.
• Work with director, producer and talent to achieve desired end result.
• Trim film segments to specified lengths, and reassemble segments in sequences that present stories with maximum effect.
• Archive in proper retrievable sequence raw and finished footage.
• Quality control

Requirements

• Proven working experience of over 3 years in video editing
• Bachelors/Diploma in media related or Arts field
• Solid experience with digital technology and editing software packages with a strong portfolio
• Thorough knowledge of timing, sequencing and continuity
• Familiarity with special effects, 2D, 3D and compositing
• Creative mind and storytelling skills
• Incisive knowledge of the Kenyan and global media tends/scene
• Skilled in capturing and editing video, audio and text
• Team player, good attitude and aptitude to learn
• Can understand and write in English and Kiswahili.
• Work under pressure, tight deadlines and minimum supervision