Producer / Director - 128267

Please note that this position is a 50% part-time appointment

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The UC Sentencing Project (UCSP) is a partnership across prison walls between faculty, staff, and students at UC San Diego and UCLA and currently and formerly incarcerated organizers with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) and their allied group, the Felony Murder Elimination Project (FMEP). UCSP mobilizes interdisciplinary, multi-genre, collaborative modes of research and arts practice to create opportunities for connection and knowledge production for those who have faced long-term sentences in California’s prisons designated for women. UCSP aims to build opportunities for incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and system-impacted women and transgender/gender variant/intersex (TGI) people, disproportionately people of color, to direct and conduct research and arts collaborations on the causes and effects of long-term sentencing; build opportunities for collaborations between system-impacted and non-system-impacted researchers and arts practitioners; use storytelling to allow system-impacted people agency over their narratives of the gendered and racialized experience of incarceration by collectively creating videos, reports, scholarship, creative writing/poetry collections, performances and other events; and use the insights provided by these activities to inform how humanists and arts practitioners envision research methodology and practice.

In conversation with the project Principal Investigators, the Producer/Director will create a corpus of video pieces documenting the complexities of long-term incarceration in California, with particular emphasis on the gendered and racialized aspects of criminalization. The creation of such video work will comprise reviewing and creating an archive of film and video footage related to incarceration in California; interviewing and working closely with currently and formerly incarcerated research team members and project participants; conducting background research; conceptualizing, writing, and directing video pieces; and editing and producing finalized video projects to be of use both to other parts of the project and relevant campaigns with partner organizations.

• Ability to travel. Ability to work occasional overtime and non-standard work hours.

• Proven expertise in the use of video, photo, graphic, and audio editing software including Adobe Creative Cloud, Logic, and DaVinci.

• Experience with professional videography/video production in an institution, producing video campaigns and managing their distribution.

• Experience working on issues related to racial and gendered aspects of mass incarceration in California.

• Advanced experience in the handling and use of professional video cameras, lenses, and tripods/stabilizers/rigs for recording 4K video and photography.

• Advanced experience using audio capture and recording tools including various types of microphones (lavalier, shotgun, etc.), digital audio recorders, and audio mixing and monitoring systems.

• Demonstrated experience in setup and use of interview and documentary lighting, stands, and backdrops.

• Knowledge of industry-standard media formats for archival and streaming platforms.

• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise of videography and photographic principles and techniques.

• Graduation from college with a major in instructional media or communications or a related field; and two years of professional media production experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Job offer is contingent upon satisfactory clearance based on Background Check results.

Pay Transparency Act

Annual Full Pay Range: $64,665 - $117,158 (will be prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%)

Hourly Equivalent: $30.97 - $56.11

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