Waddell Media, Trainee Avid Edit Assistant

Trainee Avid Edit Assistant: 12 Month Fixed Term, November 2025 - October 2026

Job Summary
Job Title: Trainee Avid Edit Assistant
Contract Length: 12-month Company Placement, with potential extension.
Start Date: November 2025
Hours: 37.5hrs per week
Salary: Real Living Wage (currently £12.60 per hour)
Location: Holywood, Co. Down - in office

Job Description
Supporting editors and producers by helping organise projects, prep footage and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations in the post-production department.

Job Responsibilities:

Requirements of the role will include, but not be limited to:

• Project Setup: Assist in setting up projects and organizing bins and media in Avid Media Composer.
• Media Ingest: Help with importing, transcoding and labelling footage, ensuring proper file management.
• Syncing Support: Assist in syncing and organising multi-cam interviews and field footage.
• Editorial Support: Build simple sync maps and transcripts for editors or producers.
• Exports: Generate basic exports for internal and external reviews and feedback (you’ll be trained if unfamiliar).
• Media Tracking: Keep assets organised and updated; assist with logging footage and maintaining editorial paperwork.
• Team Collaboration: Communicate clearly with editors and post staff, ask questions and follow established workflows.

Who is eligible to apply?

You are eligible to apply if you can answer these four questions:

• Are you eligible to work in the UK?
• Do you currently reside in Northern Ireland?
• Are you available to participate in the scheme from November 2025 – October 2026?
• Are you over 18 and not in full-time education?

If you cannot answer YES to these FOUR questions, please do not apply. Ineligible applications will be automatically discarded.

*For the avoidance of doubt, Northern Ireland needs to be your primary residence for tax purposes. Applicants residing in Northern Ireland will take priority.

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Where is it based?
The role will be based in Holywood, Northern Ireland and participants will be expected to base themselves in Northern Ireland for the duration.

​​​​​​​Equal Opportunities Statement
“We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their sex; religious or similar philosophical belief; political opinion; race; age; sexual orientation; or, whether they are married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled; or whether they have undergone, are undergoing or intend to undergo gender reassignment.”

We will monitor our programmes on an ongoing basis and target any under-represented groups as and when appropriate.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to the employment of disabled people, we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS). The GIS does not guarantee a job. However, its objective is to ensure a guaranteed number of disabled applicants, who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role they have applied for, are offered an interview.

Pre-Employment Checks
To be officially appointed at Northern Ireland Screen, all candidates who successfully complete the selection process will be required to undergo an Access NI Basic Disclosure Check. Human Resources will provide further guidance once a candidate has been provisionally offered the position.