Video Editor (Descript and Canva) / Social Media Content Assistant

Posted 5 days ago

Worldwide

Summary

We are looking for a reliable Video Editor & Social Media Assistant to help us create short-form content for our event, catering, wedding, and corporate event brands. The main responsibility will be editing short videos for Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Facebook, and other social media platforms using Descript and/or similar editing tools. This person should be organized, detail-oriented, creative, and comfortable working with event-related content such as weddings, corporate events, catering stations, behind-the-scenes videos, client testimonials, service highlights, and promotional clips. Main responsibilities: * Edit short-form videos using Descript or similar tools. * Create engaging social media clips from longer videos. * Add captions, subtitles, simple text overlays, hooks, and calls to action. * Prepare videos for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts. * Help manage and organize YouTube content. * Upload and schedule content when needed. * Repurpose existing videos into multiple short clips. * Help maintain a consistent brand style across social media. * Select strong video moments from raw footage. * Basic thumbnail or cover image creation is a plus. * Basic English is required. Good written English is a plus. Nice-to-have skills: * Experience with event, wedding, catering, hospitality, or lifestyle brands. * Experience managing YouTube channels. * Experience publishing content on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. * Basic Canva skills. * Basic knowledge of email marketing or HTML emails. * Ability to help with client communication in the future. * Ability to help organize event-related information, schedules, or vendor communication in the future. This role will start focused on video editing and social media publishing. Over time, there may be opportunities to help with email campaigns, HTML emails, event coordination tasks, and communication with clients or vendors. We are looking for someone long-term, dependable, and proactive — not just a one-time editor. Please include in your proposal: 1. Examples of short-form videos you have edited. 2. Your experience with Descript. 3. The social media platforms you have managed or published on. 4. Your hourly rate or monthly rate. 5. Your availability per week. 6. Your English level.

  • More than 30 hrs/week
    Hourly
  • 6+ months
    Duration
  • Entry level
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  • $3.00

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    $4.00

    Hourly
  • Remote Job
  • Ongoing project
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Skills and Expertise
Mandatory skills
Social Media Content
Social Media Content Creation
Activity on this job
  • Proposals:5 to 10
  • Last viewed by client:3 days ago
  • Hires:
    1
  • Interviewing:
    5
  • Invites sent:
    30
  • Unanswered invites:
    24
About the client
Member since Jun 21, 2023
  • United States
    Weston2:43 PM
  • $4.3K total spent
    61 hires, 31 active
  • 853 hours
  • Sales & Marketing
    Small company (2-9 people)

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