Educational Video Management Specialist - Student Service

Educational Video Management Specialist
- Student Service

City:
West Lafayette

Req

Purdue University Online’s instructional design team seeks a dependable student worker to support a large-scale initiative to showcase course content on Purdue's You Tube channel. This role offers hands‑on experience with educational technology workflows, video processing, and quality assurance in a higher education environment.

• Execute a structured, semi-automated process for identifying, downloading, and processing course videos from our Learning Management System (LMS) and video distribution platform
• Run provided scripts to modify videos and generate metadata and thumbnails for You Tube upload
• Verify successful video rendering and conduct quality checks on metadata
• Maintain accurate records of processed courses and any issues encountered
• Communicate proactively about progress, questions, and roadblocks

• Learning agility:
  Ability to quickly understand and follow detailed technical processes, even without prior technical experience
• Attention to detail:
  Careful verification of outputs and metadata to ensure quality
• Communication skills:
  Proactive in asking questions, reporting progress, and escalating issues appropriately
• Judgment:
  Ability to distinguish between problems you can troubleshoot independently and those requiring supervisor input

• Prior experience following technical procedures or workflows
• Basic comfort with digital file management
• Prior experience running programs in a terminal or working within a Jupyter notebook

• This position provides experience with:
  • Educational technology systems and workflows
  • Video processing and quality assurance
  • Process documentation and execution
  • Working with automated tools and scripts
  • Professional communication in a higher education setting

• Flexible schedule of 10 hours per week, with a regularly scheduled weekly meeting
• Direct mentorship and training from Lead Instructional Designer

$11.00/Hour

Non-Exempt

NO

Posting

Start Date:

1/21/26

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