What are the responsibilities and job description for the Video Coordinator position at LA Philharmonic?
Position: Video Coordinator
Department: Marketing
FLSA Grade: Part-time, Non-Exempt
Salary Range: $22–25/hour
The LA Phil is seeking a highly detail-oriented Part-Time Video Coordinator to join our Video Team within the Marketing Department. The Video Team is an efficient and ambitious group of creatives responsible for crafting video content to serve the organization’s storytelling, promotional, and performance capture needs.
The Video Team strives to:
- Create beautiful work across a wide breadth of topics and styles.
- Produce content at a high volume to reflect the organization’s many programs.
- Prioritize impactful and equitable storytelling for local and global audiences.
- Foster an inclusive and collaborative culture of open-mindedness and continuous learning.
The Video Coordinator will work together with the Senior Video Producer. They will support the entire Video Team with active project management and collaborative communications within and between various teams and departments of the LA Phil. They will coordinate internal and external stakeholder reviews and feedback for video projects, quality assurance of drafts and final deliverables, as well as the packaging and deployment of final content deliverables across the LA Phil’s owned channels and collaborative placements.
Primary Responsibilities
- Maintaining status updates on shared project management software to ensure accuracy, visibility, and an efficient team workflow.
- Providing the first stage of quality assurance on all videos with particular attention to visual consistency by noting necessary missing elements and discrepancies between copy used across all Marketing materials, as well as by identifying opportunities to communicate information more clearly to audiences.
- Tracking, renaming, moving, copying, and re-organizing review and final delivery files and links for consistency and timely distribution.
- Editing, proofing, and exporting shortform content on an as-needed basis to support editor workloads.
- Updating and maintaining both older and upcoming content on the LA Phil’s YouTube channels by uploading, optimizing for SEO best practices, and by managing metadata, titles, thumbnails, and end screens.
- Identifying shifting YouTube trends and keywords to recommend and implement a consistent, channel growth-oriented SEO strategy.
- Ingesting final deliverables from both internal teams and external vendors and tagging video content in our DAM for future use.
- Collecting and organizing artist assets and promotional copy; editing assets and re-cropping when needed.
- Writing, proofing, and scheduling video routing emails, calls, and meeting notes.
- Consolidating and clarifying video edit feedback with internal and external stakeholders and creative partners, communicating detailed changes to video stakeholders using concise language.
- Identifying and flagging project roadblocks, potentially difficult scheduling deadlines, and bandwidth issues.
- Researching and sourcing archival footage from our DAM and external hard drives for various projects.
- Other project-specific work may be requested on an as-needed basis.
Musical knowledge or experience is preferred but not required.
- An Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience a plus
- Must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Must be a self-starter with the ability to work with teams in a fast-paced, goal-oriented environment
- Must multi-task and work within deadlines
- Must be organized
Location: The LA Phil utilizes a hybrid work environment with work-from-home on Mondays and Fridays and in-office attendance on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. This position may require occasional work during filming in the evening or on weekends.
Updated 1/27/25
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the FCIHO.
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
It is the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Association does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and religious grooming), sex (including pregnancy, perceived pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition or information, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the law, the Association also provides reasonable accommodation for disabled applicants and employees in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, for pregnant employees who request an accommodation with the advice of their health care providers, for pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions; for employees who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking; and for applicants and employees based on their religious beliefs and practices.
Salary : $22 - $25
