Content Creator

Summary: Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout (YEAH) is a Black-led, community-based non-profit supporting teens and young adults in West and Southwest Philadelphia ages 15 to 24 who are impacted by violence. YEAH works to create safe and authentic hangout spaces by providing culturally relevant engagement and implementing teen led interventions to address the root causes of violence. Utilizing teen action through peer led mediation and conflict resolution, community engagement, and economic opportunities, YEAH interrupts the cycle of youth community violence. YEAH, acknowledges teens and young adults as the experts of their own lives and prioritizes pushing back against oppressive systems and addressing structural barriers that often lead to violence.

Key Responsibilities

• Content Creation: Film, edit, and produce short-form videos, graphics, articles, and social posts for platforms like X, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook etc.
• Live Event & Program Coverage: Capture and share content rapidly during events, workshops, programming etc., managing real-time publishing and cultural moments.
• Storytelling: Develop compelling narratives around key initiatives related to VCI, and coalition building at YEAH, storylines, catching real-time key moments for social consumption.
• Platform Expertise: Understand each platform's nuances, optimize content for performance (SEO, engagement), and use analytics to refine strategy.
• Collaboration: Work with producers locally, and nationally, social managers, editors, and young people in the community that align with our content.
• Quality & Deadlines: Maintain high production quality while meeting tight deadlines, especially during live events and strategic planning or initiatives.
• Create long stories or partner with external business to include YEAH narratives.
• Coordinate podcasting and focus group conversations.
• Manage all social media content (FB, IG, Twitch, X, YouTube.
• Update company website monthly or quarterly as needed.
• Coordinate only merch sales using virtual markets etc.

Essential skillset we are looking for:

1. “Out-of-the-box thinkers”
2. Knowledge of current internet culture.
3. Be an expert on social media trends and platform-native content creation, prioritizing video creation on TikTok and Instagram.
4. Experience in Photography, videography, editing.
5. A strong visual mindset and understanding of the wider landscape of images and video.
6. Strong communication skills and ability to take creative direction and bring it to life through video editing.
7. Strong understanding of frame composition (lighting, angles, negative space, photo clarity/depth of frame).
8. Strong understanding of studio tools such as ring lights, tripods, props, backdrops, etc.
9. Excellent verbal communication skills and ability to clearly articulate and document technical processes and issues.
10. Exceptional time-management and multi-tasking abilities.
11. Expertise in pro-tools and processes for creative assets and content workflows
12. Knowledge of popular editing software.
13. Has access to equipment needed or able to manage existing equipment.
14. Ability to research and compile social trends, ideas, competitors’ best-in-class examples, and cutting-edge executions to inform and propose new content.
15. Creating storyboards, shot lists, and pre-production materials for both site content and social-first content.
16. Be able to manage projects by using MONDAY.com
17. Collaborating with the creative, social, and marketing teams to develop engaging content that resonates across platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
18. Capture and edit original video content and have a hand in all phases of video production from pre-to-post (filming, editing, color correction, sound design, etc.)
19. Define and create branded style templates for new and existing social content for IG stories, etc.
20. Willing to become or support a brand personality with high energy and enthusiasm, fearlessly tackling creative projects not limited to hosting guests on camera, connecting with strangers on the street, starring in wacky trends, walking through routines, etc.

Must be detailed oriented and have the ability to review projects for proper grammar and punctuation.