Recent College Graduates! Into Film and need an Internship?

United African Organization has an open internship position over the Summer for recent college/university graduates who specialize in/are skilled in video editing. The intern will work on the UAO's exciting public education project, Africans in Chicago Oral History Project.

About Africans in Chicago: Through a series of oral history interviews, we hope to capture the diverse experiences of Chicago’s African migrant population - from post-colonial history to personal stories of hardship and enterprise. The flagship feature of our project will be a set of five short documentary films based on our oral history interviews. Our films will be housed on the Africans in Chicago website, www.africansinchicago.org.

About the Internship:

• The intern will edit video footage covering 5 oral history interviews to create 5 documentary films (each 5-7 minutes) in length. 
• Start date: Mid-June; End date: Mid-August (start and end date flexible) 
• Each film tells the story of the interviewee, while at the same time, highlighting how the interviewee's story is representative of broader issues and challenges within the African immigrant and refugee community in Chicago. 
• The intern will work with UAO's Research & Policy Associate and Africans in Chicago camera people to develop the story-line of each short documentary film, and for guidance during the actual editing process. 
• Once completed, the 5 short documentaries will be made available to the general public through the Africans in Chicago website, as well as school and community screenings. 

Qualifications

• Experience with Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro required. 
• Experience, knowledge in video editing necessary. 
• Ability to work between mid-June and mid-August in UAO office, at least 3 days each week (for 12 hours per week). 
• Experience with photo editing, manipulation and graphic design preferred. 

Benefits of position

• Gain valuable experience editing a documentary film project, for the benefit of the community. 
• Gain experience working in the non-profit sector. 
• Be involved with a unique community-based project, where Africans in Chicago are directly involved with showcasing their own diversity and telling their own stories on film. Take advantage of this opportunity to work with and empower members of a marginalized and underserved community in Chicago. 
• Learn about the experience of African immigrants and refugees in Chicago - the city's fastest growing immigrant community. 

APPLY TODAY! 

Please send a resume, cover letter and sample of your work, as well as two references to Tara via project@uniteafricans.org

Call Tara with any questions: 312-949-9980