Creative Multimedia Producer: Video, Podcast & Social

Yale University; New Haven (CT); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Yale University’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications (OPAC) seeks a creative multimedia content producer to engage broad audiences with video, audio, graphics, and storytelling across platforms. This role reports to the chief communications officer for social media and helps develop a new OPAC multimedia initiative featuring original video and podcast programming.

The successful candidate will work with cross‑disciplinary teams across OPAC and Yale, pitch ideas, own projects, and craft

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Communications or related field.
• Five years of experience in public relations, journalism, or corporate communications.
• Experience creating multimedia content for digital audiences.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, coordination, and production of a new OPAC multimedia initiative featuring original video and podcast programming.
• Help identify, develop, produce, and edit original multimedia content about Yale’s people, ideas, research, and campus life for a range of editorial, digital, social, and marketing communications needs.
• Create content with specific audiences and platforms in mind, considering how format, length, framing, presentation, and storytelling approach can be tailored to the ways people discover, watch, listen to, share, and engage with content across digital environments.
• Develop and pitch new multimedia concepts, formats, and storytelling approaches, bringing creativity and curiosity to OPAC’s efforts to experiment, expand its storytelling, and find new ways to reach and engage audiences as existing platforms evolve and new ones emerge.
• Contribute editorial and production skills throughout the creative process, including researching subjects, identifying story angles, writing or scripting as appropriate, and applying professional video, audio, producing, and editing skills to create high‑quality finished work.
• Extend stories thoughtfully across formats and platforms, identifying opportunities to develop short‑form and vertical video, social‑first content, audio clips, explainers, and platform‑specific adaptations for different audiences.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across OPAC and Yale to take ownership of approved projects, contribute ideas and multimedia expertise, and carry concepts and production through to completion.

Skills

Storytelling

Video production

Editing

Audience development

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Communications or related field

Five years of experience in public relations, journalism, or corporate communications

Tools

Video editing software

Job description

Yale University’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications (OPAC) seeks a creative multimedia content producer to engage broad audiences with video, audio, graphics, and storytelling across platforms. This role reports to the chief communications officer for social media and helps develop a new OPAC multimedia initiative featuring original video and podcast programming.

The successful candidate will work with cross‑disciplinary teams across OPAC and Yale, pitch ideas, own projects, and craft