Hybrid Position Opening:

Visual Narrative Producer + Masters of Sustainability Studies Graduate Student

From Catastrophe to Community: A People’s History of Climate Change is a six-year project that documents the lived experiences of climate disaster survivors worldwide. These experiences of impact and loss—and, importantly, resiliency and hope—will be shared through documentaries, an anthology, and a travelling museum exhibition that will launch at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Museum of Vancouver. The project team will train post-secondary students and professional journalists to perform this documentation work using trauma-informed, human-rights-based practices.

As an Visual Narrative Producer and a Masters of Sustainability Studies Graduate Student at Trent University, you will be responsible for ensuring the ‘narrative packages’ our students and journalists co-create with survivors are ready for broadcast, publication, presentation, and archiving. This work will involve planning, implementing, and evaluating pre-production, production, and post-production activities.

While the primary responsibility of this position will be the production of visual narrative packages, a scholarly publication associated with your academic studies (see the program options here) is a desired outcome at the end of your two-year tenure.

Under the supervision of Dr. Neil Ever Osborne, and reporting to the Managing Editor of the From Catastrophe to Community project, the position will be responsible for:

● editing the testimonies in our visual narrative packages to a broadcast/publication/presentation standard;
● preparing visual narrative packages for broadcast/publication/presentation/archiving by our news media and cultural
partners;
● coordinate photojournalists and videographers in making images with trainees and survivors;
● as required, co-create testimonies with trainees and survivors and engage in other field work; and
● support the publication of our newsletter for climate disaster survivors.

The successful candidate will have:

● experience in producing and editing student or professional visual storytelling (i.e., audio and visual software
experience is mandatory);
● experience with oral history or testimony journalism practices;
● experience in teaching or mentoring youths and/or students;
● experience working with and/or supporting trauma-affected people; and
● demonstrated excellence in practicing trauma-informed journalism, and more specifically, visual storytelling.

Read more details about the position, including funding support, here.

Interested candidates should send their short statement of interest to Dr. Neil Ever Osborne via email at neilosborne@trentu.ca. Please also include an updated resume/CV and highlight any visual storytelling and scholarly work you have performed and/or
published via a link.