Junior Content Curator

• Job Title Junior Content Curator, Orchard Clips   
• Duration 12 months fixed term contract, with potential to extend subject to business needs
• Location Chancery Lane, London, UK.

About Orchard Clips

Orchard Clips is the leading source of footage from and about the Middle East and North Africa. Our clips bring focus to a diverse and dynamic region, highlighting the people, places and subjects that make the MENA region fascinating. Based in London, Orchard Clips works with customers around the world, providing them with premium footage, as well as providing archive services to content owners and an Arabic research service for TV and content production.

Orchard Clips is part of OR Media Group, which also includes award-winning documentary production company OR Media, cutting-edge post-production facility Azimuth, shortform producer OR Shorts, and OR Rights, the programme sales and distribution arm of the group.

About The Role

Content Curators are responsible for the ingest, logging and management of video clips. The role is responsible for everything from tagging video data with various metadata attributes and researching footage to customer briefs, to light video editing.  

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to establish a career in the audiovisual archive industry. We will provide a period of in-house training, fully documented with ongoing support. 

This role is office based and you will be required to attend the office 5 days per week.

Responsibilities include:   

• Logging footage using pre-determined keyword schema
• Working with senior Content Curators and the Head of Orchard Clips to identify commercially valuable content
• Ingest rushes produced by production teams in the field into the systems with accompanying metadata
• Researching and identifying footage of specific customer interest upon request
• Identifying themes and suitable content for marketing and promotional usage
• Carrying out spot checks / verification and troubleshooting as required, escalating issues when necessary
• Using Adobe Premiere to carry out basic edits as required.

• Strong attention to detail
• Quick learner who seeks continual improvement and takes steps to prevent errors from recurring
• Demonstrable written and verbal communication skill
• Strong IT skills, including MS Office, Excel etc.
• Good problem-solving skills and a ‘can do’ attitude.

• Understanding of video formats & codecs, aspect ratios and frame rates
• Knowledge of Middle Eastern politics and history
• Arabic/Farsi language skills
• Experience of working in the TV, film, in stock footage and/or content curation.