Friends of the Israel Defense Forces is hiring: Lead Video Producer in New York

About Us 

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) is a humanitarian nonprofit that provides life-changing support for the courageous young men and women of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). We transform their lives through empowering educational, financial, well-being, and cultural initiatives as they protect the State of Israel and her people. Inspired by them, we strive to champion a culture of courage worldwide, ensuring a secure and thriving Israel today and forever. 

Whether energized by making a difference in the lives of Israel’s soldiers, wounded veterans, and bereaved families, or by providing hope and life-changing support to a population of diverse ethnicities, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds, FIDF is for you! Our workplace is vibrant and dynamic, encouraging bold creativity, ingenuity, and vision.

Position Summary

The Lead Video Producer will find fresh and innovative ways to tell FIDF’s brand story in order to drive donor behavior in today’s socially charged, media-consuming environment by creating smart, innovative, and powerful work that connects and moves our audience.

Who Are You? 

You want to do the best work possible. You are a forward-thinking, multi-disciplined integrated producer who can juggle, execute, and deliver production solutions across multiple platforms: short and long form video.

What We Expect

We want passion. We want excitement. We want pride-swelling, tear-jerking storytelling. We want creative vision, tireless enthusiasm, and the ability to drive big ideas, solve production challenges and ensure flawless execution. We want you to believe that you can make anything happen, and there is no problem that cannot be solved. We want you bring cross-medium knowledge, and embrace the greater complexity and technology involved in how new media works and can be utilized.

Responsibilities:

• Support FIDF’s creative needs for events, FIDF LIVE, and beyond.
• Responsible for collaborating on innovative ideas and taking them from concept through execution and delivery.
• Oversee FIDF Video Production: Manage multiple video projects simultaneously, ensuring each aligns with organizational goals and delivers impactful messaging.
• Demonstrate Leadership Potential: Take ownership of production processes while curating and leveraging the strengths of team members to maximize output, quality and efficiency. Expand capacity by developing and producing additional creative assets.
• Serves as the production lead for specific project assignments from the ideation of content through pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution to the final audience.
• Responsible for communication between creative and production teams; innovate processes to improve workflow with overseas production teams.
• Lead and participate in script writing, directing production, and editing video.
• As FIDF’s editor-in-residence, create compelling and engaging content; refashion and optimize existing content for a variety of purposes; capture, source, animate additional images, videos, and assets; field quick editing requests, as needed.
• Advocate for the creative process, so that the best ideas come to life, while always looking for the best way to provide solutions on time and budget.
• Manage the day-to-day timelines and budgets of projects to ensure they are on time and within budget.
• Build relationships with all vendors to support creative projects and oversee the logistics management for project operations.
• Cultivate media library, curating top chapter assets and guiding them toward optimal content options given objectives.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of production experience.
• Website or reel must be submitted demonstrating experience.
• Appetite to produce work in all specialties (digital, events, broadcast, experiential).
• Collaborative yet confident.
• Proficient in industry software and systems.
• Excellent planning, organizing and time management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Brilliant team player and work ethic.
• Understanding of all processes involved in a production lifecycle (video, design, digital).
• Budget preparation skills.

Benefits and compensation 

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Early dismal for Shabbat, 403b with employer matching, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, FSA, Jewish and Federal paid holidays, sick days and vacation 
• Compensation is commensurate with experience. 

FIDF is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.