Audio and Video Editor

Purpose of the Role

As a Video and Audio Editor at IWM, you will create engaging video and audio content that enhances visitors' understanding of conflict and brings our collections to life in museum spaces. You will produce content for exhibitions, galleries and digital signage, working across multiple sites and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders.

Why This Role Matters

This role directly contributes to IWM's mission to help people understand the impact of conflict by translating powerful stories, archive material and testimonies into compelling multimedia experiences. Your work will shape how visitors engage emotionally and intellectually with exhibitions, making complex histories accessible and engaging.

High-quality delivery in this role ensures exhibitions are immersive, accurate and accessible, supporting curatorial, learning and digital teams to deliver impactful visitor experiences. By maintaining professional standards in editing, storytelling and accessibility (including subtitles and audio clarity), you help uphold public trust and inclusive engagement.

The impact of your work extends to visitors, educators, researchers and internal teams who depend on engaging, reliable and well-produced media content within gallery environments.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Edit video content using tools such as Premiere, combining interviews, archive footage and supporting visuals into engaging short-form films.
• Edit and enhance audio, including cleaning and assembling low-quality archival recordings and oral testimonies.
• Design and create motion graphics, including titles, captions, animated maps and visual storytelling elements.
• Produce accurate, high-quality subtitles to support accessibility and diverse visitor needs.
• Deliver AV content for exhibitions, galleries and on-site digital signage, meeting agreed deadlines and quality standards.
• Collaborate with colleagues across curatorial, technical and production teams to ensure projects run smoothly.
• Work across IWM sites as required, contributing to a range of projects and installations.
• Maintain professional standards, ensuring brand, technical and operational consistency in all outputs.

Occasional Responsibilities:

• Supporting installation and testing of AV content in galleries.
• Working on-site at different IWM locations when required (travel and accommodation provided).
• Contributing to peak project periods, exhibition launches or cross-team initiatives.

What Success Looks Like

After 30 days: You understand your role, tools and team, and are building relationships while contributing to tasks with guidance.

After 60 days: You are delivering project outputs with increasing independence and confidence in timelines and processes.

After 90 days: You are confidently delivering high-quality content, contributing ideas, and acting as a reliable point of contact for project work.

What We're Looking For:

Essential:

• Strong portfolio demonstrating storytelling through video, audio or multimedia.
• Experience using video editing tools (e.g. Premiere, Final Cut Pro).
• Experience with motion graphics tools (e.g. After Effects).
• Understanding of graphic design principles (layout, typography, colour).
• Experience using creative tools such as Photoshop.
• Ability to manage workload, prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
• Clear communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively.

Desirable:

• Experience with audio editing tools (e.g. Audition).
• Experience with front-end technologies (e.g. HTML, JavaScript).
• Knowledge of 3D tools (e.g. Cinema 4D, Maya, SketchUp).
• Experience in project coordination or delivery.

Career Development

This role offers clear progression toward a more senior AV Developer position, with opportunities to expand technical expertise and creative impact within IWM's AV team.

This job advert gives an overview of the role. Responsibilities and priorities may evolve over time in line with organisational needs.

For a full list of duties and the person specification (which your application will be marked against) please view the Job Description.

Application closing date: June 19th 2026, 11:55 PM.

Interview Details

First round interviews for this role are planned the week commencing 6/07/2026

Benefits

The benefits listed below are discretionary and IWM reserves the right, with due notice, to vary or withdraw them at any time. All such benefits apply during the course of your employment only.

• Annual Leave: You'll have 25 days of annual leave, with public holidays on top. After 3 years, this increases to 27 days and after 5 years, you'll get 30 days
• Company Group Pension Plan: Our commitment to your financial well-being includes competitive employer contributions to your pension starting at 7% to a maximum of 12%.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Benefits: Celebrate life's milestones with confidence, knowing that our policies support growing families.
• IWM4me: Tailor your benefits to your unique needs through IWM4me. Access health, protection, and lifestyle benefits at corporate rates, ensuring your holistic well-being.
• Free Sanitary Products: We prioritise your comfort by providing free sanitary products across all our sites.
• Retail Discounts: 25% off IWM Cafes, 20% discount in on-site shops, Benefits hub offering retail discounts to several high street shops (via our EAP provider) and MyActive discounts for health and wellbeing based retail discounts (via IWM4me)
• Free Entry to IWM Air Shows: Witness the thrill of vintage aircraft at our air shows.
• Free Entry to Partner Museums & Galleries: Immerse yourself in art, history, and culture through our reciprocal arrangements with other institutions.
• In-House Training Programmes: Fuel your intellectual curiosity and professional growth through our comprehensive training initiatives.
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme: Simplify your daily commute with our interest-free loan program.
• Cycle 2 Work & Cycle Hire: Promote well-being and environmental consciousness by cycling to work.
• Eye Tests: Money back up to £80 for an eye test and a new pair of glasses.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Access confidential support for personal or work-related challenges.
• Benenden Healthcare & Dental Insurance: Prioritise your health with access to quality healthcare services (subject to terms and conditions).
• Civil Service Sports Club Membership: Opportunity to join and enjoy additional discounts and perks as part of a vibrant community.
• Staff Events and Networks: Join fellow colleagues in social gatherings and events, fostering camaraderie and shared experiences.

and more!

Ready to embark on this exciting journey with us? Apply now and become part of IWM!

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This role is subject to:

A basic check, which shows unspent convictions and conditional cautions.

Equal Opportunities and Flexible Working

IWM is committed to a policy of Equal Opportunities.

We miss out when people feel IWM isn't for them, and are committed to removing and reducing barriers to make IWM open to everyone.

Our Access and Inclusion strategy has been developed to promote openness, equal opportunities to access, inclusivity and encourage diversity in everything that we do, from employment practices, the services we provide to our visitors to the facilities we make available to public.

At IWM we seek to address the need for greater diversity within our workforce as well as the wider museum and heritage sector. In all our practices we embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity and we welcome applications from suitable candidates of all backgrounds.

We value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruitment contact, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.