Content Producer at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; Banff; Hybrid; CAD 64,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Alberta Blue Cross

Defined benefit pension

Employee Assistance Program

Professional development

Staff discounts

Onsite fitness facility

Job summary

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity seeks a Content Producer who will capture, edit, and produce video and audio content for marketing and communications. The role requires coordinating scripts, interviews, and storyboard development while maintaining production calendars.

The candidate will manage digital assets, collaborate with staff, and support multiple production streams from concept to delivery, with a strong emphasis on creative storytelling.

Qualifications

• 5 years+ experience in content production, video editing, in cross-functional marketing teams.
• Undergraduate degree or diploma in production, film, digital video, or related field.
• Strong time management to handle multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Self-starter capable of working with broad direction without close supervision.
• Experience with production workflows for marketing teams across written, audio, video outputs.

Responsibilities

• Videography and video capture for marketing and communications.
• Audio capture, editing and production setup for live and studio settings.
• Video and animation editing of own and others’ footage.
• Write scripts or stories for video production.
• Plan and coordinate stories; manage content calendars and ideas.
• Organize and manage digital assets and permissions.
• Maintain professional interactions with staff, participants and external contacts.

Skills

Video production

Editing

Interviewing

Project management

Content workflows

Mac/Windows

Adobe suite

Final Cut Pro

After Effects

Media Composer

Education

Undergraduate degree or diploma in production/film/digital video

Tools

Final Cut Pro

After Effects

Media Composer

Adobe Premiere Pro

Job description

The Opportunity

Content Producer Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to inspire everyone who attends our campus – artists, leaders, and thinkers – to unleash their creative potential. We acknowledge, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minhrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Band – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, District4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Videography: This role is the content capture role on the marketing and communications team when it comes to video, complimenting and supporting social media and digital media objectives The type of videography captured varies from b-roll to documentary-style behind-the-scenes capture, to sit-down interviews with participants, and animated or motion graphic pieces.


• Audio Capture: Banff Centre produces audio content [podcasts, concert recordings, talks]. This role should be familiar with and comfortable with editing audio pieces. One aspect of the content strategy is to bring together various production streams into one, cohesive plan. This role would be asked to set up and strike audio productions, both with live audiences and in studio.


• Editing: This role is the video and animation editing role on the marketing and communications team. Along with editing works that this role filmed themselves, it will require edits of materials captured by others, including current team members, past filming, and archival.


• Writing: This role will be assigned to write material, mostly focused on scripts or stories for video production.


• Project Management: This role will sit between multiple team members looking to plan and produce stories. Often the scheduling will depend on the activities filmed, or the subjects on camera, so remaining organized and over-communicating plans via project management tools is key to maintaining pace. While there will be inbound requests and plans presented to this position, there will be a requirement for proactively developing content calendars and ideas for stories and series.


• Organize materials, both new, and existing, to support and improve digital asset management. This also includes tracking permissions and consent documents, including obtaining signature on location when required.


• Interpersonal skills: This position has extensive internal and external contact including staff, faculty, participants, and administration. This role also works closely with the subjects they’re filming, so a calm and kind demeanor is critical to succeeding. Contacts extend across Canada and around the world. This position requires tact, discretion and exceptional service delivery. This role is empowered to make decisions and direct others across campus on matters related to video and editing.


• Other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Educational Requirements

• 5 years or more of related experience in content production, primarily video including editing, especially in cross-functional marketing teams, with a focus on post-secondary institutions which have a high content output


• Undergraduate degree or diploma in production, film, digital video, or a related field, or related experience


• Strong attention to detail and time management skills to manage multiple tasks and projects


• A self-starter with the ability to work under broad direction without close supervision


• A fundamental ability to manage and create content production workflows for marketing and communications teams, serving multiple types (written, audio, video) with multiple outputs including digital media, out of home video, and theatrical


• Ability to light productions both in and out of studio, and operate broadcast / cinema-grade 4k cameras


• Lead the setup and strike of production sets


• Technical experience with Apple, Adobe & Avid tools: Final Cut Pro, After Effects and Media Composer, and Adobe Premiere Pro


• Experience in producing interviews and other spoken word content and/or visual content


• Exceptional oral and written communication


• Knowledge of standard office software packages and Internet literacy is required.


• The ability to use both Mac and Microsoft platforms is necessary


• Can work self-directed at a professional level and demonstrate excellent organizational and technical abilities


• Can work under pressure of time, multiple simultaneous demands, and deadlines


• Adaptability and a team player attitude; takes feedback as well as they can give it


• Experience with arts organizations or a post-secondary institution is an asset

Employment Terms & Benefit

• In accordance with CUPE 4318, this is a unionized, salaried support staff position, subject to a 6 month probation period.


• The annual salary for this position is is between $63,960 - $67,163, depending on experience, based on working 40 hours per week.


• Hybrid work environment (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)


• The successful candidate will have access to a range of benefits through Alberta Blue Cross and will be eligible to participate in our defined benefit pension plan.

Benefits of working at Banff Centre are:

• Employee Assistance Program


• Professional development


• Staff cafeteria and restaurant discounts


• Onsite fitness facility at a discounted rate - first month free for new staff!

Visa Requirements

Visa Requirements: Candidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada. Banff Centre is unable to assist candidates in obtaining Canadian work authorization.

Commitment to Diversity

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is committed to creating an equitable, diverse, and inclusive campus for students, faculty, staff and visitors. Guided by our values, Banff Centre is rooted in Alberta with provincial, national and global impact. Our strength arises from inclusion; the diversity of people, ideas, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds in our work and team. We encourage women; First Nations, Métis and Inuit persons; members of visible minority groups; persons with disabilities; persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity and expression to apply.

Privacy Statement

Banff Centre is a public body pursuant to the Protection of Privacy Act (Alberta) (“POPA”) and the Access to Information Act (“ATIA”). All of your personal information collected by Banff Centre, including personal information collected through third-party contractors or platforms, in relation to the creation of your candidate profile and submission of a job application, is collected pursuant to section4(c) of POPA for the purpose of administering your candidate profile, evaluating your eligibility for a position(s) at Banff Centre, and communicating with you about your application. Your personal information may be disclosed, as required, pursuant to ATIA or other applicable law, to satisfy reporting requirements, or for statistical, funding, planning or research purposes. If you have any questions about the collection, use or protection of this information, please contact the Privacy Coordinator at [e-mail], 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Box 1200, Banff Alberta, T1L 1H5, 403.762.6100.