TED-Ed is looking for an enthusiastic, multi-talented Production Intern to work closely with the TED-Ed production team to help coordinate internal and external resources from initial conception to final delivery of all TED-Ed Lessons.
(This is a paid 20-30 hour per week position based in our Manhattan office from October 2016 through October 2017.)
Minimum Requirements:
- Interest and understanding of animation production
- Interest in a career in content production
- Exceptional ability to multitask
- Rigorous organizational skills and attention to detail
- Current college or graduate student, or recent graduate
- 1+ year(s) of relevant work experience or internships
Responsibilities:
- Assist production team with monitoring schedules for all projects from development to publication
- Prep TED-Ed Lessons on YouTube and TED-Ed website
- Schedule meetings, interviews and phone calls
- Review and QC animations at various stages in production
- Assist production team in organizing and delivering video and audio assets to distribution partners
- Assist production team with research, fact checking and brainstorming TED-Ed lesson ideas
The ideal candidate:
- Flexible and adaptable work style that responds quickly and efficiently to things as they happen
- Strong writer and communicator
- The ability to apply creative thinking and problem solving
- Works successfully in a small company/entrepreneurial environment
- Obsessive attention to detail
- A wide-ranging curiosity about design, science, technology, psychology, entertainment, philosophy and the arts is a plus
- Ability to make fun of yourself
Please provide a cover letter and resume with relevant experience in response to the job posting on TED.com. Note that due to the high volume of e-mails, only considered candidates will be notified.
