As a volunteer Video Editor for the Transforming Autism Project you will produce and/or edit video content to convey the Charity's message and brand - this might be our Autism for Parents videos, our Webinars or testimonial videos from families who have benefited from our services.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

You'll work with pride in what you do; delivering excellence to showcase the Charity's work across a number of platforms both shorter form content (eg interviews with families) to longer form content (eg webinars), under the guidance of our marketing team.

Initially, the work will involve editing recordings made by others, such as testimonials, interviews, our Autism for Parenting podcast, webinars, etc. You can see examples of all of these on our YouTube channel. In doing this, you will at the very least match, but ideally far exceed the production standards that we currently have in these areas. We can provide Davinci Resolve templates if this is helpful (though you might need to help us extract them ).

If it matches with your interests and abilities, there is also the possibility of additionally producing more ambitious projects, which you may also propose.

You'll bring:

Attention to detail across audio, visual and written/subtitle forms

High production standards

Solid experience in video editing tools

Familiar with post production techniques

The successful candidate will be strongly aligned with the values and the approach of the charity, and passionate about the changes we are trying to make in the lives of autistic children. They will ideally also take part in some of our team activities with our community of volunteers on a voluntary basis.

As part of the selection process, we may ask to see an example of your work.

OUR ORGANIZATION

We provide crucial support for young autistic children and their families at an age when we can make a profound life-long difference. Our pioneering First Steps programme (created in association with Norland College and based on a therapeutic framework they created for us) focuses on giving families the tools they need to understand and interact with their autistic children in ways that make them feel understood, affirmed and nurtured, strengthening relationships and facilitating the child's optimal development so that they are able to fulfil their true potential.

Our new online parent groups, facilitated by our exceptional Lead Therapist, aims to take the principle learning from this and make it available to many more families so that more lives can be transformed.

Unlike many other autism organisations, we do not focus on the perceived limitations or impairments associated with autism, but instead propose our own unique and empowering conception of it, highlighting the profound sensitivity inherent in the autistic condition as well as other positive aspects which, if nurtured appropriately, can lead to very positive outcomes. This was first presented in our TED talk, which has now been seen by well over 300,000 people.

We are currently fundraising to enable more families to partake in First Steps, and over time, we aspire to open our own state of the art therapeutic centre in the UK.

We also challenge conventional perceptions of autism and offer our own radical and empowering perspective.

This can be seen in our TED talk, which has now been viewed by well over 200,000 people and received great acclaim from the autistic community.

We are a strongly values-driven organisation, and are committed to manifesting our values in how we relate to each other, in what we are trying to achieve and in how we do it. Please visit https://transformingautism.org/values/to find out about these values before your interview, and to watch a video about them recorded by our founder.

The Transforming Autism Project value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential.