About Us

The Local Charity is a volunteer-run Canadian registered non-profit charity based in Toronto devoted to creating diverse leaders of tomorrow. Our mission is to enable and inspire individuals to reach their greatest potential. Our goal is to empower them to be the author of their own story.

We are a lean operation run predominantly by volunteers with minimal overhead expenses.

Our sister brand is Success Accelerator, through which all our programs are delivered, supporting our main pillars of elevating and enhancing access to:

🧠 Mental Health

📚 Essential Life Skills

💻 Technology

The Project

With such a large number of youth entering the poverty cycle, and with so many areas of the cycle failing to be addressed like mental health challenges, lack of opportunities, low self-esteem - these youth fall behind.

The Local Charity's Voices of Resilience series is a collection of interviews featuring young adults and frontline workers from the Greater Toronto Area. Through their stories and hardship, we provide a glimpse beyond the labels they carry. Join us now, in solidarity, in our mission to tackle the poverty cycle, by listening to their resilient stories, often ignored and overlooked, we amplify their voices

The Role

We are looking for a creative Video Editor to assist with the completion of a docu-series to share industry insights and the organization's story and mission. Our ideal candidate is team-spirited, skilled and imaginative with an eye for detail. If you can grasp project requirements quickly and offer valuable insight, we’d like to talk to you!

Qualifications

• Believing in our cause is mandatory 😃
• Vision to inspire and lead our local community to be charitable, be kind to one another (be it via The Local Charity or other avenue).
• Video editing (ideally with access to your choice of video editing tools)
• Skilled in content creation
• Experience with lower thirds, captions and titles
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to be accountable to see projects, programs, and efforts through to completion.
• Self-directed with the ability to organize, plan, and prioritize
• Critical thinking and detail-oriented
• Ability to make sound decisions in a timely fashion, seeking team input, using data, and applying creative approaches and innovative ideas

Responsibilites

• Own all aspects of video editing responsibility
• Creatively and accurately edit, package & post content; exercise sound editorial and technical judgment
• Source and secure stock media and music tracks when needed
• Collaborate with the Marketing & Communications Director and other stakeholders on concepts to help efficiently deliver a well-produced product that conveys a message that lands with the audience