Video Editor

CCHQ Conservative Campaign Headquarters is hiring a Video Editor to join its Digital team in London. This role sits within the digital content department, where the primary output is social media video across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, covering both long-form and short-form post-production. It suits an editor with a background in fast-turnaround digital content who is equally comfortable with narrative pacing and platform-specific optimisation.

About the Role

The Video Editor works inside a social media and content team producing political digital content at volume, with output driven by news cycles and campaign moments rather than a fixed production schedule. Day-to-day post-production workflow includes editing raw footage through to delivery, handling colour grading, sound design, and thumbnail creation for every piece of content. The pace is closer to broadcast news than traditional film production, with multiple projects running in parallel and turnaround times measured in hours, not days.

Key Responsibilities

• Edit and deliver long-form and short-form video content across all major social media platforms, applying platform-specific aspect ratios, caption standards, and compression settings.
• Handle full post-production workflow including trimming, sequencing, colour correction and grading, sound design, motion graphics, and text overlay work.
• Design and produce thumbnails in Adobe Photoshop, testing click-through performance and iterating based on results.
• Work directly with the social media team during pre-production to develop creative video concepts that align with campaign messaging and brand guidelines.
• Manage a concurrent slate of video projects from ingest through to final delivery, maintaining quality across tight deadlines without compromising editorial standards.
• Monitor trends in social media video editing and apply relevant techniques, including AI-assisted tools, to improve production efficiency and audience engagement.

What You Bring

• Proven experience as a video editor with a portfolio demonstrating long-form and short-form social media content across multiple platforms.
• Professional proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects as core editorial and motion graphics tools.
• Solid command of colour grading, sound design principles, and visual effects within a post-production context.
• Experience in thumbnail creation using Adobe Photoshop, with an understanding of graphic composition and visual hierarchy.
• Prior work in politics, sports production, or creator-led YouTube content is a genuine advantage, not a formality.

Why This Role

CCHQ operates as the central production engine for Conservative Party digital content in the UK, meaning the work this Video Editor produces reaches one of the largest political audiences in the country. The package includes 25 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays, enhanced parental leave, and wellness programmes. For an editor looking to build credits in high-profile political media production in London, the volume and visibility of the output here is difficult to match.

Apply now for the Video Editor position at CCHQ Conservative Campaign Headquarters and put your editorial work in front of a national audience.