Southern Methodist University
Online Video Media Developer (HR Title: Multimedia Specialist II)
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215
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Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications Salary Range:
About SMU
Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications
SMU’s more than 12,000 diverse, high-achieving students come from all 50 states and over 80 countries to take advantage of the University’s small classes, meaningful research opportunities, leadership development, community service, international study and innovative programs.
SMU serves approximately 7,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students through eight degree-granting schools: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Cox School of Business, Lyle School of Engineering, Meadows School of the Arts, Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Dedman School of Law, Perkins School of Theology and Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies.
SMU is data driven, and its powerful supercomputing ecosystem – paired with entrepreneurial drive – creates an unrivaled environment for the University to deliver research excellence.
Now in its second century of achievement, SMU is recognized for the ways it supports students, faculty and alumni as they become ethical, enterprising leaders in their professions and communities. SMU’s relationship with Dallas – the dynamic center of one of the nation’s fastest-growing regions – offers unique learning, research, social and career opportunities that provide a launch pad for global impact.
SMU is nonsectarian in its teaching and committed to academic freedom and open inquiry.
About the Department:
SMU’s
Online Production Services (OPS)
team, part of the
Office of Information Technology (OIT) , designs high-quality, engaging online courses that have impacted over 10,000 students since 2019. OPS partners with faculty and course developers to provide end-to-end support, including instructional design, technology integration, and research-based pedagogy for all levels of online teaching experience.
As a unit within OIT’s
Academic Technology
division, OPS contributes to the university’s broader mission to support teaching, learning, and innovation through technology. OIT delivers dependable services and forward-thinking solutions that enhance the SMU experience. Team members in OPS collaborate across campus to elevate digital learning and advance online education initiatives.
About the Position:
This role is an on-campus, in-person position.
This position will primarily serve as a Online Video/Media Developer reporting to SMU's Online Production Services group developing courses for the Simmons School of Education and Human Development. The Online Video/Media Developer will create digital course materials such as still and motion graphics, professional quality audio and video media, and basic animations. They will collaborate with faculty and Instructional Designers to produce multimedia content and help ensure multimedia content is accessible for diverse learners. Additionally, this position will conduct internal Quality Matters course reviews and serve to build out SMU’s growing in-house, online course production services capabilities.
Essential Functions:
Leads and manages video media production for broad range of strategic university-level, OIT, online program and ad-hoc projects from initial pre-production with stakeholders to delivery and distribution through campus platforms. Collaborates with professors, subject matter experts, and instructional designers on course multimedia design and delivery. Provides consultation and training for professors and subject matter experts on how to create high-quality lecture recordings, video and image accessibility, fair use practices, and file management. Edits digital media content using nonlinear software systems, electronic and motion graphics, animations, digital effects, sound effects and music into finished packages that meet appropriate branding guidelines, quality rubrics, customer expectations and other approvals. Creates motion graphics for use in media. Directs and records video and audio both in studio and on-locations as required by stakeholders, talent, faculty and other subjects. Operates high-quality cameras, audio, grip and lighting gear to acquire video and media content both in-studio and on-location. Maintains studio, studio scheduling, and studio equipment. May supervise studio student workers. Monitors advances in media solutions and techniques. Continually refines studio and production processes to include advances that improve media and video production services for campus. Makes recommendations regarding purchases of equipment, staff assignments and production operations. Conduct Quality Matters Course reviews.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s Is Required. Master's Is Preferred.
A minimum of three (3) years of experience is required.
Candidate must have experience with technology or media production in video/film/television including using modern editing software, experience and fluency across production hardware and software tools, experience working with VIP's and other high-level executives and the ability to shoot and produce video content in multiple environments.
Experience in Adobe Creative Suite software, studio settings with non-actors, and the field of education are preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Candidate must demonstrate strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate broadly across the University and develop and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of constituencies. Must also demonstrate strong written communication skills.
Candidate must possess strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and analyze problems, as well as devise solutions. Must also have strong organizational, planning and time management skills.
Candidate must be adept with all AV and camera technologies for production or virtual conferencing. Knowledge of Zoom is required.
A working knowledge of video monitors, preview and input monitors, production switchers, audio mixing boards, linear/nonlinear editors, storage (servers), waveform monitors, vector scopes, camera control units, speakers, video router/patch panels, sync generators, cameras and camera pedestals, lighting rigs, tungsten lights and lighting control boards, microphones preferred.
Experience with video software such as Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, AfterEffects, etc, is preferred.
Physical and Environmental Demands:
Sit for long periods of time
Deadline to Apply:
Open until filled.
EEO Statement
SMU is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression.
Benefits:
SMU offers staff a broad, competitive array of health and related benefits. In addition to traditional benefits such as health, dental, and vision plans, SMU offers a wide range of wellness programs to help attract, support, and retain our employees whose work continues to make SMU an outstanding education and research institution.
SMU is committed to providing an array of retirement programs that benefit and protect you and your family throughout your working years at SMU and, if you meet SMU's retirement eligibility criteria, during your retirement years after you leave SMU.
The value of learning at SMU isn't just about preparing our students for the future. Employees have access to a wide variety of professional and personal development opportunities, including tuition benefits.
Primary Location
USA-TX-Dallas
Job
Information Technology
Organization
Simmons School of Education
Schedule
Regular
Shift
Staff
Employee Status
Individual Contributor
Job Type
Full-time
Job Level
Day Job
Travel
No
Job Posting
Jul 24, 2025, 4:09:42 PM Seniority level
Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type
Employment type Full-time Job function
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Online Video Media Developer (HR Title: Multimedia Specialist II)
role at
Southern Methodist University 2 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Join to apply for the
Online Video Media Developer (HR Title: Multimedia Specialist II)
role at
Southern Methodist University About SMU
Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications Salary Range:
About SMU
Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications
SMU’s more than 12,000 diverse, high-achieving students come from all 50 states and over 80 countries to take advantage of the University’s small classes, meaningful research opportunities, leadership development, community service, international study and innovative programs.
SMU serves approximately 7,000 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students through eight degree-granting schools: Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Cox School of Business, Lyle School of Engineering, Meadows School of the Arts, Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Dedman School of Law, Perkins School of Theology and Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies.
SMU is data driven, and its powerful supercomputing ecosystem – paired with entrepreneurial drive – creates an unrivaled environment for the University to deliver research excellence.
Now in its second century of achievement, SMU is recognized for the ways it supports students, faculty and alumni as they become ethical, enterprising leaders in their professions and communities. SMU’s relationship with Dallas – the dynamic center of one of the nation’s fastest-growing regions – offers unique learning, research, social and career opportunities that provide a launch pad for global impact.
SMU is nonsectarian in its teaching and committed to academic freedom and open inquiry.
About the Department:
SMU’s
Online Production Services (OPS)
team, part of the
Office of Information Technology (OIT) , designs high-quality, engaging online courses that have impacted over 10,000 students since 2019. OPS partners with faculty and course developers to provide end-to-end support, including instructional design, technology integration, and research-based pedagogy for all levels of online teaching experience.
As a unit within OIT’s
Academic Technology
division, OPS contributes to the university’s broader mission to support teaching, learning, and innovation through technology. OIT delivers dependable services and forward-thinking solutions that enhance the SMU experience. Team members in OPS collaborate across campus to elevate digital learning and advance online education initiatives.
About the Position:
This role is an on-campus, in-person position.
This position will primarily serve as a Online Video/Media Developer reporting to SMU's Online Production Services group developing courses for the Simmons School of Education and Human Development. The Online Video/Media Developer will create digital course materials such as still and motion graphics, professional quality audio and video media, and basic animations. They will collaborate with faculty and Instructional Designers to produce multimedia content and help ensure multimedia content is accessible for diverse learners. Additionally, this position will conduct internal Quality Matters course reviews and serve to build out SMU’s growing in-house, online course production services capabilities.
Essential Functions:
Leads and manages video media production for broad range of strategic university-level, OIT, online program and ad-hoc projects from initial pre-production with stakeholders to delivery and distribution through campus platforms. Collaborates with professors, subject matter experts, and instructional designers on course multimedia design and delivery. Provides consultation and training for professors and subject matter experts on how to create high-quality lecture recordings, video and image accessibility, fair use practices, and file management. Edits digital media content using nonlinear software systems, electronic and motion graphics, animations, digital effects, sound effects and music into finished packages that meet appropriate branding guidelines, quality rubrics, customer expectations and other approvals. Creates motion graphics for use in media. Directs and records video and audio both in studio and on-locations as required by stakeholders, talent, faculty and other subjects. Operates high-quality cameras, audio, grip and lighting gear to acquire video and media content both in-studio and on-location. Maintains studio, studio scheduling, and studio equipment. May supervise studio student workers. Monitors advances in media solutions and techniques. Continually refines studio and production processes to include advances that improve media and video production services for campus. Makes recommendations regarding purchases of equipment, staff assignments and production operations. Conduct Quality Matters Course reviews.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s Is Required. Master's Is Preferred.
A minimum of three (3) years of experience is required.
Candidate must have experience with technology or media production in video/film/television including using modern editing software, experience and fluency across production hardware and software tools, experience working with VIP's and other high-level executives and the ability to shoot and produce video content in multiple environments.
Experience in Adobe Creative Suite software, studio settings with non-actors, and the field of education are preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Candidate must demonstrate strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate broadly across the University and develop and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of constituencies. Must also demonstrate strong written communication skills.
Candidate must possess strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and analyze problems, as well as devise solutions. Must also have strong organizational, planning and time management skills.
Candidate must be adept with all AV and camera technologies for production or virtual conferencing. Knowledge of Zoom is required.
A working knowledge of video monitors, preview and input monitors, production switchers, audio mixing boards, linear/nonlinear editors, storage (servers), waveform monitors, vector scopes, camera control units, speakers, video router/patch panels, sync generators, cameras and camera pedestals, lighting rigs, tungsten lights and lighting control boards, microphones preferred.
Experience with video software such as Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, AfterEffects, etc, is preferred.
Physical and Environmental Demands:
Sit for long periods of time
Deadline to Apply:
Open until filled.
EEO Statement
SMU is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression.
Benefits:
SMU offers staff a broad, competitive array of health and related benefits. In addition to traditional benefits such as health, dental, and vision plans, SMU offers a wide range of wellness programs to help attract, support, and retain our employees whose work continues to make SMU an outstanding education and research institution.
SMU is committed to providing an array of retirement programs that benefit and protect you and your family throughout your working years at SMU and, if you meet SMU's retirement eligibility criteria, during your retirement years after you leave SMU.
The value of learning at SMU isn't just about preparing our students for the future. Employees have access to a wide variety of professional and personal development opportunities, including tuition benefits.
Primary Location
USA-TX-Dallas
Job
Information Technology
Organization
Simmons School of Education
Schedule
Regular
Shift
Staff
Employee Status
Individual Contributor
Job Type
Full-time
Job Level
Day Job
Travel
No
Job Posting
Jul 24, 2025, 4:09:42 PM Seniority level
Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type
Employment type Full-time Job function
Job function Information Technology Industries Higher Education Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Southern Methodist University by 2x Get notified about new Media Developer jobs in
Dallas, TX . Dallas, TX $90,000.00-$180,000.00 2 days ago Web & Graphic Designer/Front-End Developer
Irving, TX $86,360.00-$101,600.00 5 days ago Dallas, TX $140,000.00-$160,000.00 4 weeks ago Associate Developer/Developer, IT Applications
Dallas, TX $70,000.00-$82,000.00 4 days ago Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Multiple Levels) - Slack
Dallas, TX $167,300.00-$334,600.00 2 days ago Irving, TX $130,000.00-$145,000.00 1 month ago Garland, TX $58,614.00-$72,717.00 3 weeks ago Plano, TX $135,000.00-$140,000.00 2 weeks ago Entry-Level Software Developer (In-Office Irving, Texas)
Irving, TX $42,000.00-$53,000.00 1 month ago Irving, TX $80,000.00-$115,000.00 2 days ago We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.
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