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Short-Form Video Editor (Social Media Focused)

Kloof Street, Cape Town City Centre🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-09-27 → 2026-09-30

Core

Transform raw footage from events, festivals, and live entertainment into high-energy, engaging short-form content for TikTok and Instagram Reels.

Role type

Short-form video editor (social media)

Builds

TikTok and Instagram Reels for a UK-based business in the events, festivals, hospitality, and live entertainment sector.

Domain

Events, festivals, live entertainment, nightlife

Required skills

Short-form video editing, TikTok/Instagram Reels expertise, event/festival content editing, motion graphics, sound design, visual composition, storytelling, pacing, hooks creation, UGC-style content creation, branded content creation, multi-project management

Preferred skills

Agency experience, nightlife content editing, high-energy crowd footage editing, behind-the-scenes content editing, promotional reel creation, social campaign editing

Technologies

CapCut, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects

Responsibilities

Edit engaging TikTok and Instagram Reels from raw event and festival footage, create fast-paced and visually engaging short-form social content, keep up to date with TikTok and Instagram trends and trending audio, create strong hooks and engaging edits designed to capture attention quickly, use music, sound effects, transitions, captions, text and motion graphics to enhance content, create both polished branded content and authentic UGC-style social videos, repurpose longer-form or existing footage into multiple pieces of short-form content, adapt content specifically for different social platforms and audiences, work quickly and efficiently across multiple projects and deadlines

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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