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Video Editor Intern

iAurora · Lagos State, Nigeria

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Responsibities* Edit high-quality short-form videos for TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and other social media platforms.* Edit both faceless and face-led videos, including UGC-style content, educational videos, storytelling videos, promotional content, and social-media creatives.* Transform raw footage, scripts, voiceovers, images, and creative ideas into engaging videos with strong pacing and storytelling.* Add captions, subtitles, sound effects, transitions, motion graphics, visual effects, music, and other elements that improve viewer retention and engagement.* Create attention-grabbing openings and visually engaging edits that keep viewers watching from the first few seconds.* Edit talking-head and presenter-led videos by removing unnecessary pauses, mistakes, repetitions, and awkward sections while maintaining a natural flow.* Produce faceless videos by combining voiceovers with relevant footage, stock videos, animations, graphics, screenshots, and other visual elements.* Adapt videos to different platforms and formats while maintaining the appropriate aspect ratio, resolution, pacing, captions, and visual style for each platform.* Repurpose long-form videos, podcasts, interviews, and other existing content into multiple engaging short-form videos.* Work closely with the creative and content team to understand the purpose, audience, tone, and desired outcome of each video before editing.* Follow provided scripts, references, creative directions, and brand guidelines while also bringing original editing ideas to improve the final result.* Research current editing styles, viral formats, visual trends, sounds, transitions, and storytelling techniques that can make the content more competitive on social media.* Select appropriate music, sound effects, B-roll, images, and other visual assets that support the message and improve the overall quality of each video.* Maintain consistent visual quality, typography, captions, branding, audio levels, and editing standards across all published content.* Review completed videos carefully to identify errors in captions, cuts, audio, transitions, graphics, and visual alignment before submission.* Organize project files, footage, assets, project files, exports, and other editing materials properly so that projects can be easily accessed and continued by the team.* Work efficiently within deadlines and manage multiple video-editing assignments while maintaining a high standard of quality.* Be willing to learn new editing techniques, software, motion graphics, visual effects, and emerging content-production workflows as the team grows.* Take feedback positively, make revisions quickly, and continuously improve editing quality based on performance data and team feedback.* Contribute creative ideas for new video formats, hooks, editing styles, and content concepts that can increase audience engagement and retention.* Stay curious about new tools and technologies, including AI-assisted video editing and content-production tools, and learn how they can improve the team’s workflow.