- Contribute to development of videos that highlight student achievements, faculty research, and alumni accomplishments.- Work with the team on concept development, setup/strike-down, and post-production tasks, including editing, exporting audio transcripts, music curation, and sorting video clips/B-Roll.- Support the creation of effective, creative, original, on-brand digital materials for publication on the Advancement division’s webpages and on the AU Alumni Association social media channels.- Draft, edit, and revise content for the Advancement division’s university webpages including www.american.edu/giving and www.american.edu/change-cant-wait.- Assist with writing and publication of web-based news stories and social media posts.- Update and maintain the internal departmental digital asset management system, including organizing, naming, and tagging video b-roll and photography.- Capture photography and videography on campus to support Advancement Communications projects as directed.- Run analytical reports on email campaigns and website traffic, compile and distribute metrics and reports.- Assist the Associate Director of Advancement Communications and Senior Director of Advancement Communications and Campaign Operations with administrative tasks as needed.

filming, assistant producing, editing, and other production-related services

- Event Management/Planning: Manage logistics and admin for the Anacostia Youth Media Festival- Social Media: Content creation/promotion of various events across AYMF platforms- Public Relations: Writing news/press releases for AYMF community events - Teaching: Hands-on filmmaking instruction to middle/high school-aged students

- Coordinating content and film locations for Run, Hope, Work documentary through Anacostia Youth Media

Article Writing – Writing news and feature stories in a fast-paced environmentSelf-driven – Independently conducting interviews and covering events within the Shepherd University communityFilmmaking & Editing Proficient – Making interview appointments and meeting withinterviewees, conducting video interviews, operating camera, tripod, lavalier mic, etc., editing video news stories and shorts and publishing themCollaboration – Working with other Picket journalists/reporters on joint projects (written and video formats)Pushing the Creative Envelope – Spearheading an effort to implement more video content on the Picket website and YouTube Channel resulting in a 93% increase in overall impressions, updating the sites to appear more modern and relevant

- Wrote news and feature stories in AP style using the inverted pyramid format- Conducted interviews and covered newsworthy events in the local community and beyond

Video Creation and Editing – Researched, compiled, curated and edited stock footage for music videosVideography/Photography – Captured photography and videography during live studio recording sessionsAudio Editing – Assisted with music track/score editing using Cubase Pro digital audio workstation softwareStudio Session Preparation – Assisted with studio set-up, preparation, organization and break down before and after client music and photography studio sessionsProcurement – Assisted CEO with research for the purchase of new photography/videography equipment and other-related accessoriesPhilanthropy – Assisted CEO with photography, videography and peer mentoring as a Court Appointment Special Advocate (CASA) Youth Advocate during their 2022 Youth Leadership Summit summer camp