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Video Production Manager - Digital Learning at UT - UTK

Position Number: 6140056
Location: Chattanooga, TN
Position Type: Communications - Media & Communication Studies

Video Production Manager - Digital Learning at UT - UTK
Knoxville, TN, United States

Job Identification: 2588
Job Category: Communication & Mktg
Posting Date: 04/10/2025
Job Schedule: Full Time
Locations: 1331 Circle Park, Knoxville, TN, 37996, US

Job Description
This role leads complex multimedia projects with high visibility and strategic impact ensuring we are creating meaningful and impactful content that helps drive the university's mission of academic excellence. This position requires professional judgment in planning, developing, and executing creative projects that align with the university's and department's goals. The Media Studio Manager collaborates with faculty, external partners, and other units across campus to create engaging content for online courses and marketing efforts and advises on strategic communications.

Responsibilities
Video Production & Project Management

Serve as producer/director for medium to large multimedia projects, including scheduling and resource management.
Construct and stage studio sets, including props, and backdrops, and assuming primary responsibility for lighting, while ensuring safety for staff and talent.
Lead art direction, ensuring the creative direction, visual tone, and content align with the university's branding strategies.
Utilize experience and professional judgment to develop and execute video production plans that support goals.
Operate video production equipment such as cameras, teleprompters, and audio gear.
Review video team's produced content to ensure quality meets expectations and accessibility requirements before delivery to clients
Edit media in support of multiple delivery platforms and deliver produced content within established deadlines
Display editorial and creative decision making while working independently on medium-to-large sized video and multimedia projects.
Design and produce motion graphics and animated effects, incorporating editorial and creative decision-making throughout.
Plan, design, and create multimedia content across video, advertising, web design, social media, marketing, public relations, and photography.
Edit content for various delivery platforms.
Develop technical, promotional, and creative materials to promote the university's mission, goals, and achievements.
Translate complex academic content into cohesive multimedia communications that are accessible and compelling to diverse audiences.
Create and manage production project plans, schedules, and budgets, ensuring deadlines are met.
Oversees and leads the work of others functioning as the production project lead and be able to prioritize multiple projects effectively and efficiently.
Participate, as needed, in the design, coordination, and development of integrated communication and marketing strategies that align with university goals

Leadership & Supervision

Hire, train, supervise, and mentor full-time video production staff and student workers.
Research and recommend hardware, software, and innovative solutions for media production.
Accountable for scheduling and monitoring work of others guided by objectives and expected outcomes with limited direction
Maintain organization of equipment inventory, performing repairs and replacement as necessary
Maintain and organize digital media libraries and equipment inventories, ensuring proper archiving and retrieval of assets.
Educate and direct clients on the studio's media production processes, determine project scope, and continue correspondence to project completion
Consult with clients and stakeholders, both internal and external, to assess needs, develop solutions, and oversee the full scope of projects from concept to completion.
Promote and maintain an atmosphere of excellence in customer service, in both verbal and written communications
Build relationships across campus units and with external university partners
Provide creative leadership, directing talent, and coordinating freelance consultants as needed.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

Associate's Degree in graphic design, communications, video production, cinema studies, social sciences/humanities and at least 7 years video production experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.

Bachelor's Degree in in graphic design, communications, video production, cinema studies, social sciences/humanities and at least 4 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.

Preferred Qualifications

Education: Master's degree in graphic design, comm, video production, cinema, related field
Small to medium-size creative agency experience
Familiarity with higher education work environment

About Us
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has shaped leaders, changemakers, and innovative thinkers since its founding in 1794. The university is home to more than 38,000 students and 10,000 statewide employees-the Volunteers-who uphold the university's tradition of lighting the way for others through leadership and service.

UT Knoxville offers over 900 programs of study across 14 degree-granting colleges and schools. As Tennessee's flagship land-grant university, its footprint spans the entire state. The university holds the highest Carnegie classification for research activity and has deep partnerships with industry leaders and the US Department of Energy's largest multidisciplinary laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The Knoxville campus serves and recruits for UT Knoxville, including the Institute of Agriculture and the Space Institute, as well as the UT Institute of Public Service.

UT Knoxville considers its employees its number one asset. With values that focus on work-life balance, compensation, and innovation leadership, all Vols are supported to advance professionally. Employees have access to career development and coaching, continued education, and an extensive list of development and training possibilities. The Volunteer employee experience implements structures and practices that attract and retain a diverse community and that support a culture where everyone matters and belongs.

The university holds a strong commitment to its land-grant mission of learning and engagement, with a tradition of service and leadership that carries that Volunteer spirit throughout the state and around the world. It has been ranked nationally as "Best Employer for New Graduates," "One of America's Best Large Employers," and "Best Workplace for Women," and has been designated as "Best Place for Working Parents" by Forbes Magazine.

Apply today and join the Tennessee Volunteer community!

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