Educational Video Management Specialist - Student Service

Job Title: Educational Video Management Specialist - Student Service

City: West Lafayette

Job Summary
Purdue University Online’s instructional design team seeks a dependable student worker to support a large‑scale initiative to showcase course content on Purdue's YouTube channel. This role offers hands‑on experience with educational technology workflows, video processing, and quality assurance in a higher education environment.

Job Responsibilities

Execute a structured, semi‑automated process for identifying, downloading, and processing course videos from our Learning Management System (LMS) and video distribution platform

Run provided scripts to modify videos and generate metadata and thumbnails for YouTube upload

Verify successful video rendering and conduct quality checks on metadata

Maintain accurate records of processed courses and any issues encountered

Communicate proactively about progress, questions, and roadblocks

Required Qualifications

Learning agility: Ability to quickly understand and follow detailed technical processes, even without prior technical experience

Attention to detail: Careful verification of outputs and metadata to ensure quality

Communication skills: Proactive in asking questions, reporting progress, and escalating issues appropriately

Judgment: Ability to distinguish between problems you can troubleshoot independently and those requiring supervisor input

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience following technical procedures or workflows

Basic comfort with digital file management

Prior experience running programs in a terminal or working within a Jupyter notebook

Learning Opportunities

This position provides experience with:

Educational technology systems and workflows

Video processing and quality assurance

Process documentation and execution

Working with automated tools and scripts

Professional communication in a higher education setting

Work Environment

Flexible schedule of 10 hours per week, with a regularly scheduled weekly meeting

Direct mentorship and training from Lead Instructional Designer

Hourly Rate
$11.00/Hour

FLSA Status
Non-Exempt

Benefits Eligibility
NO

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