About TEDxMaitama
TEDxMaitama is a community-driven platform that brings together thinkers, innovators, entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and changemakers to share ideas worth spreading. Through conferences, salons, workshops, digital content, and community initiatives, TEDxMaitama amplifies ideas that can inspire meaningful change across Africa and beyond.
Position
Job Title: Video Editor
Organization: TEDxMaitama
Reports To: Creative Director
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Engagement: Volunteer
Work Mode: Remote
Role Overview
The Video Editor will be responsible for transforming raw event footage, speaker presentations, interviews, social media recordings, and other visual materials into compelling, high-quality video content that reflects the TEDxMaitama brand.
The ideal candidate is a creative storyteller with strong technical editing skills and an understanding of how to create content optimized for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and other digital platforms.
Key Responsibilities
1. Video Editing
- Edit TEDxMaitama speaker talks, interviews, event highlights, behind-the-scenes footage, and promotional videos.
- Produce polished long-form videos for YouTube and other platforms.
- Create short-form content such as Reels, TikToks, Shorts, teasers, trailers, and speaker clips.
- Ensure videos maintain strong pacing, storytelling, visual consistency, and audience engagement.
- Incorporate music, sound effects, transitions, graphics, captions, and other elements where appropriate.
2. Event Content Production
- Work closely with the event production and media teams before, during, and after TEDxMaitama events.
- Organize and manage large volumes of event footage.
- Identify compelling moments, quotes, stories, and audience reactions that can be repurposed into digital content.
- Support the rapid production of post-event content.
3. Social Media Content
- Edit platform-specific content for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and X.
- Create engaging short-form clips from TEDx talks and interviews.
- Optimize video dimensions, duration, subtitles, thumbnails, hooks, and pacing for different platforms.
- Collaborate with the social media and content teams to develop content around TEDxMaitama speakers and events.
4. Brand & Visual Consistency
- Maintain TEDxMaitama's visual identity across all video content.
- Follow approved branding, typography, graphics, lower thirds, transitions, and intro/outro guidelines.
- Ensure all final videos meet professional broadcast and digital publishing standards.
5. Collaboration
- Work with the Senior Video Editor, Creative Director, Social Media Manager, Content Team, and Event Production Team.
- Receive and implement creative feedback.
- Participate in creative planning sessions and content reviews.
- Coordinate with photographers and videographers to ensure footage is properly captured for post-production.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Proven experience as a video editor, preferably in events, media, entertainment, advertising, communications, or digital content.
- Strong proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, or equivalent editing software.
- Knowledge of Adobe After Effects and Photoshop is an advantage.
- Strong understanding of storytelling, pacing, composition, sound design, and visual communication.
- Experience editing short-form social media content.
- Ability to work with raw multi-camera footage.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to meet tight deadlines, particularly around major events.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Preferred Experience
- Experience working with conferences, TEDx events, corporate events, or similar productions.
- Experience creating YouTube content and social media videos.
- Knowledge of motion graphics and animation.
- Basic understanding of color grading and audio mixing.
- Experience working with subtitles, captions, and accessibility-focused video content.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating previous editing work.
Key Performance Indicators
Success in this role will be measured by:
- Quality and consistency of edited videos.
- Timeliness of content delivery.
- Engagement and performance of video content.
- Ability to effectively communicate the ideas and stories of TEDxMaitama speakers.
- Consistency with TEDxMaitama's visual identity.
- Ability to produce multiple content formats from a single event or recording.
- Collaboration and responsiveness within the creative team.
What You Will Gain
- Experience working with a high-profile TEDx platform.
- Exposure to influential speakers, entrepreneurs, executives, creatives, and thought leaders.
- Opportunities to build a strong professional media portfolio.
- Experience working on large-scale conferences and digital content campaigns.
- Opportunities to collaborate with a multidisciplinary creative team.
TEDxMaitama is looking for a storyteller, not just an editor — someone who can turn great ideas into powerful visual experiences.