Summary: The Multimedia Production Assistant helps produce, manage, and facilitate media production responsibilities for Wisdom. This includes:
- Assists with production and post-production in a variety of settings including in the field, at the office, and in studio facilities.
- Assist Multimedia director with logistics (emails/scheduling/organization/setup and attending meetings, both internal and with the extended communities).
- Help manage media equipment and storage including physical gear and digital files.
- Assists with recruiting and training cohorts of interns in production and post-production.
- Helps produce Wisdom’s monthly TV program “Discovering Our Stories- Generations” through Open Signal studios.
- Assists with grants and reports as they pertain to multimedia.
- Any additional relevant responsibilities as needed.
Employee Status:
- Contractor or Employee Status
- Full Time or Part Time
- 20 – 40 Hrs/week
Reports to: Tim Keenan Burgess – Multimedia Program Director
Start date: July 1st until filled
Pay rate: $21.75/hour
If interested please contact: Tim Keenan Burgess – tim@wisdomoftheelders.org
Job Requirements:
- Adobe Premiere/Photoshop, Final Cut, and/or other media editors.
- Mac and PC, Google Suite, MS Office, File Management.
- Familiarity and comfort with various camera/lighting/audio equipment used in production.
- A good eye for detail, design, and layout.
- Time management, organization, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Both self-driven and a collaborator with the ability to collaborate on the creative direction of media as well as oversee the development of media.
- Ability to help with the conception, creation, and implementation of media distribution to diverse audiences, including broadcast, online, physical media, and any other platforms or events used to support or distribute media.
- Ability to assist with the operation, maintenance, and/or oversight of media facilities.
- Assist as needed with writing grant applications, reports, etc.
Position Responsibilities:
- Help edit videos for a wide range of purposes, including curriculum, short/long documentary films, social media, projects for Wisdom’s community and Tribal partners, and others as needed.
- Assist with Multimedia filming for all of Wisdom’s various purposes.
- Assist Multimedia director with logistics (emails/scheduling/organization/setup and attending meetings, both internal and with the extended communities).
- Help manage and edit video content into media training/multimedia for Wisdom’s workforce training program and the Indigenous Archives program which might include digitizing, cataloging, databasing analog media, and outreach.
- Assist with grant writing/submitting/reporting as needed. Prior experience is not needed.
- Assist with any Wisdom community events and communicate with staff and local partners to coordinate service-learning activities.
- Help manage the media storage room, inventory, and film equipment/peripherals.
- Check equipment in and out for production shoots and maintain equipment in good working order.
- Potentially help recruit Native youth and adults to serve as workforce and multimedia interns and possibly assist with teaching/classroom education and service learning (if feasible).
- Potentially assist with the Wisdom Radio Program as needed.
About Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.:
MISSION: Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. (Wisdom) is a Portland Oregon based non-profit that records, preserves and shares oral history, cultural arts, language concepts, and Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge of exemplary Indigenous elders, artists, scientists and culture keepers in collaboration with multiple arts and environmental organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies.
VISION: Indigenous cultural sustainability, multimedia education, and race reconciliation.
Current Wisdom projects include:
Wisdom Multimedia (WMM):
Wisdom’s Multimedia department creates materials to be used in its internship, television and radio programming. Wisdom Multimedia also includes our Climate and Native Wisdom Documentary Film Project, Curriculum gathering and development for various programs, and work with our community partners and Tribal entities. Wisdom MM also runs the Indigenous Archive Initiative and Native Filmmaking Academy (NFA) program.
Native Filmmaking Academy (NFA):
The NFA provides cohorts of multigenerational Native Americans with education in multimedia production along with service learning activities in collaboration with Wisdom staff and project partners. This program supports interns’ development of their own multimedia career pathway plans to strengthen skills, educational engagement, and workforce readiness; and address Native American disparities by strengthening positive health and wellness factors, including cultural identity and self-esteem.
Indigenous Archive Initiative (IAI):
For over 30 years, Wisdom’s producers and Multimedia department have filmed and recorded Native Elders, artists, scientists, and culture keepers, particularly of the Oregon and Washington Tribes. Wisdom has thousands of hours of analog media that need to be digitized, cataloged, and a database created for use in its programming. These preserved materials will also be used to add culturally significant materials to Wisdom’s curricula. Wisdom plans to share these materials with the Tribes and families who contributed to them and, with Tribal support, Wisdom plans to potentially preserve these materials with the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Institute.
Wisdom Workforce Development (WWD):
The Wisdom Workforce Development (WWD) initiative integrates traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of Native elders with Western science and provides a holistic approach to environmental assessment and habitat restoration. Internships are designed to strengthen Native workers’ career engagement, cultural identity, and positive health and wellness resiliency while addressing multiple Native American disparities.
Wisdom Youth Science Education (WYSE):
Wisdom’s WYSE program provides cultural and environmental education activities in the classroom and out-of-school service learning in the state of Oregon that has been designed to enrich STEM/STEAM learning for all students as well as low-income Native youth and other youth of color.
The WYSE (Wisdom Youth Science Education) Facilitator is a Multimedia related position, which assists Wisdom’s WYSE program providing cultural and environmental education activities in the classroom and out-of-school service learning in the state of Oregon that has been designed to enrich STEM/STEAM learning for all students as well as low-income Native youth and other youth of color.
Wisdom Agriculture Business Incubator (WABI):
The WABI program provides instruction and support for the startup and development of businesses by Native American (American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) adult interns to plan and create an agricultural/horticultural microenterprise business. WABI will provide support services, including entrepreneur business development training, strategic planning, business plan development, and financial planning.