Storytelling Editor: Elevate Impactful Community Narratives

Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills. Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward.

About Mentor A Promise
Mentor A Promise (MAP) is a New York City nonprofit supporting children and youth ages 5–18 experiencing housing instability. Through mentorship, literacy, creative expression, storytelling, and community engagement, MAP creates safe, consistent spaces where youth voices and lived experiences are honored with dignity. MAP’s storytelling platforms—The Bells I Hear and Threads of Voices—use long-form and short-form media to explore youth resilience, culture, housing justice, creativity, and human connection.

Position Overview
The Storytelling Video Editor is the creative engine behind our storytelling. They are responsible for transforming recorded podcast conversations into high-quality, thoughtful video content for YouTube and podcast and social platforms. This role ensures that stories are edited with care, clarity, and respect—preserving tone, context, and intention.

This is not fast-turnaround content editing. It is ethical storytelling through visual craft.

Key Responsibilities
Video Editing

Craft compelling video podcast episodes and short documentaries from interviews, B-roll, archival footage, images and graphics.

Identify the strongest moments in interviews and build narratives that resonate.

Use pacing, music, visuals, and transitions to keep viewers engaged.

Incorporate captions, titles, lower thirds, and motion graphics consistent with Mentor A Promise's brand.

Perform color correction and basic post-production finishes.

Create platform-specific versions for YouTube, Podcast Platforms Shorts, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn.

Ability to research, source, and organize high-quality, royalty-free music, sound effects, and archival media. Maintain meticulous tracking of usage rights, licensing terms, and attribution requirements.

Audio Editing (Podcasts & Sound Design)

Edit full-length video podcast episodes for pacing, clarity, and engagement ensuring smooth transitions between segments, intros, outros, and sponsor reads.

Clean and enhance dialogue while maintaining a natural conversational flow.

Incorporate music, and transition and clean up audio to support the story.

Deliver polished, well balanced audio ready for publication.

Clean up raw podcast recordings by removing filler words, awkward pauses, and background noise while maintaining a natural conversational flow.

Source, license, and layer background music and sound effects to elevate the narrative tone and overall production value.

Balance audio levels and export final master files to industry-standard loudness levels (e.g., -16 LUFS for podcasts).

Required Qualifications & Skills

We are looking for someone who can find the story - not simply assemble clips. The ideal editor knows when to let a moment breathe, when to tighten pacing, and music, visuals, and silence work together to create emotional impact.

Minimum 1 year of proven experience editing both narrative audio podcasts and documentary-style video content.

Software Proficiency Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or equivalent professional video editing software

A strong editorial ear and eye—knowing how to cut a scene or an interview to maximize emotional impact and keep the audience engaged.

Strong organization skills for managing large media assets, syncing multi-cam footage, and organizing multi-track audio.

Ability to take direction from producer notes, incorporate feedback gracefully, and work efficiently under tight deadlines.

Preferred (Nice-to-Have) Qualifications

Familiarity with Riverside recordings

Experience working with nonprofit, journalism, or documentary content

What You’ll Gain

Meaningful storytelling experience with real community impact

Portfolio-ready podcast and digital media work

Collaboration with producers, hosts, and creative teams

Professional references and letters of recommendation

The opportunity to help amplify voices with respect and intention

Edit with purpose — help shape stories that honor humanity, amplify voices, and reflect the care at the heart of Mentor A Promise.

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with our organization. At this time, our volunteer opportunities are limited to individuals who are based in the United States. This limitation is due to legal, safeguarding, data-privacy, and programmatic requirements associated with our work. We appreciate your interest in our mission and your understanding of these constraints.

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