Content Producer

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to inspire everyone who attends our campus – artists, leaders, and thinkers – to unleash their creative potential.

We acknowledge, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as "Minhrpa" (translated in Stoney Nakoda as "the waterfalls") and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Band – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai.

We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.

The Opportunity
The Content Producer plays a key role in the development and delivery of leading-edge content creation and production. They will be the videographer and editor for many of the team’s projects year-round, across all business areas on campus. The work ranges from capturing cinema-grade video on and off campus for interviews, b-roll, collaborating with photographers, performances, atmospheric, and documentary-level participant footage to editing your own material, along with archival and motion graphics.

Along with video projects, the producer will contribute to audio-first pieces like podcasts. They will manage audio selection and editing for video projects and may write copy and text for content pieces. This role will support content plans across marketing and communications, along with supporting the ongoing improvement of digital media and social media efforts. The content plans also include video that is distributed across a wide range of outlets, from standard digital media and You Tube to in-theatre experiences, out of home video, and video placed across campus.

Whether it’s audio or video, the producer is a writer and storyteller at heart.

Roles And Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director of Marketing, below are some key accountabilities:

Videography
This role is the content capture role on the marketing and communications team when it comes to video, complimenting and supporting social media and digital media objectives The type of videography captured varies from b-roll to documentary-style behind-the-scenes capture, to sit-down interviews with participants, and animated or motion graphic pieces.

Audio Capture
Banff Centre produces audio content [podcasts, concert recordings, talks]. This role should be familiar with and comfortable with editing audio pieces. One aspect of the content strategy is to bring together various production streams into one, cohesive plan. This role would be asked to set up and strike audio productions, both with live audiences and in studio.

Editing
This role is the video and animation editing role on the marketing and communications team. Along with editing works that this role filmed themselves, it will require edits of materials captured by others, including current team members, past filming, and archival.

Writing
This role will be assigned to write material, mostly focused on scripts or stories for video production.

Project Management
This role will sit between multiple team members looking to plan and produce stories. Often the scheduling will depend on the activities filmed, or the subjects on camera, so remaining organized and over-communicating plans via project management tools is key to maintaining pace. While there will be inbound requests and plans presented to this position, there will be a requirement for proactively developing content…