Creative Director & Videographer at Emerge Career

Every year, thousands of people leave incarceration ready to work but with no clear path to a career. Emerge Career exists to change that. We train justice-impacted adults for high-paying trades and place them into jobs that change their lives and their families' lives. We've trained hundreds of students. 89% graduate. 92% land jobs. $77K average starting salary. We've outperformed job centers in 9 states. We've placed graduates with 84+ employers and secured over $50M in government contracts. But here's the problem. We're terrible at telling that story. Not because the stories aren't extraordinary. They are. Because no one owns the system that captures them on camera, packages them, and puts them in front of the people who need to see them: legislators deciding whether to fund us, employers deciding whether to hire our graduates, future students deciding whether to sign up. You will fix that. With a camera in your hand, not a brief in your inbox. This is not a marketing manager job. This is not a hands-off creative director job. This is the job for someone who gets on the train, walks into a yard with our students, sets up a shot, runs the interview, drives back, cuts the piece, a