Editor - UEFA

EDITOR – WHISPER UEFA DEPARTMENT

Whisper is a leading global production company, specialising in sports, unscripted and branded entertainment.

Our diverse team of over 280 team members work in offices across the UK and beyond, producing top level sports such as Formula One, UEFA and The Paralympics, as well as branded content, prime-time documentaries and entertainment quiz shows for a raft of broadcasters.

In 2023 Whisper won a BAFTA and was nominated for an International EMMY. 

It's co-owned by Sony Pictures Television and is a seven-times Broadcast Best Places to Work. 

We are looking for a creative Adobe Premiere Pro editor to join our UEFA team.

The role will include working on features, openers and closers for productions like The UCL Show, The UEFA Europa Show and UEFA’s Digital platforms. 

The right candidate for this role should demonstrate a talent and passion for editing high-end content in a fast turnaround environment. 

They should be full of ideas, willing to engage in shaping the overall creative direction of the department and confident to bring new visual styles to the productions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Offline and online editing on Adobe Premiere Pro

• Working as part of a team across a wide range of content including promos, features and longer-form content.

• Grading and sound mixing to broadcast quality

• Stitching programmes for delivery to broadcasters

• Understanding the technical requirements to meet and uphold QC standards

• Ensuring that the output complies with Whisper’s editorial, technical, design and accessibility standards, whilst always working to the company’s Health and Safety policy

• Keeping abreast of developments and trends in the Digital space and make suggestions for creative content

Skills and Experience:

• Comprehensive knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro and demonstrable experience of creating exciting edits

• Ability to use After Effects (Mac-based) would be beneficial

• Passion for creativity and visual storytelling, and ambition to work as part of the team to suggest new ideas and designs

• Demonstrated ability and experience of producing engaging, entertaining, and creative features.

• Understanding of the technical specifications, creative and editorial requirements for delivering output directly to broadcast and also social media platforms

• Understanding of media management, requesting, and ingesting of content, as well as broadcast delivery specifications and codecs

• Ability to understand a brief from the internal production team and external clients

• Ability to work independently as well as alongside an Edit Producer, and to amend projects started by other editors

• Flexibility of working days and hours to fulfil needs at crucial points of the sporting calendar

• Several years’ previous experience in the industry

• A demonstrable level of creativity with the ability to bring a fresh new approach to creating engaging and evolving output

Location:

The base for this position will be predominantly Kew, London.

Working Days:

This role will require a degree of flexibility and weekend working.

You will be expected to work with the team to plan a schedule based on production requirements, Lieu days will be given for any days worked over a five-day week.

Whisper offer the option of flexitime hours subject to production requirements.

Start/End:

ASAP – 12 month FTC

Salary:

Based on experience

Application Closing:

Monday 8th July

How to apply:

Please send your CV, showreel and tell us in your own way why you are the right candidate for this role to link below