Video Editing Intern

We employ 2,100 journalists, producers, engineers and sales staff. Our newsrooms publish thousands of stories a day across print, broadcast and digital.

The program:

Dar es Salaam Times is hiring a Video Editing Intern for Jan 2027. Remote internship with the Video team. Raw footage is shared on Google Drive and you edit from home. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Tanzania. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Your projects:

• Pick royalty-free music and sound effects from the company library.
• Add captions, subtitles and on-screen text that match brand style.
• Organise project files, footage and exports in Google Drive.
• Create simple motion graphics, lower thirds and intros in After Effects.
• Repurpose podcast and webinar recordings into short clips.
• Track video performance in YouTube Studio and note what worked.
• Colour correct footage and balance audio so every video sounds consistent.

Basic qualifications:

• Available for the full internship period.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Basic understanding of pacing, cuts and transitions.
• Comfortable with tight deadlines and quick feedback.
• Available 20 to 40 hours a week.

Nice to have:

• Basic scripting or storyboarding.
• Thumbnail design skills.
• Motion graphics experience in After Effects.

What you get out of it:

• How retention graphs and click-through rates change the way you edit.
• Certificate and recommendation letter on completion.
• Working to a content calendar with fixed posting times.

Program dates: Jan 2027, 6 months.

Intern pay: TZS 235,000 to TZS 330,000 per month

Perks:

• Company laptop.
• Internet allowance.
• Certificate of completion.

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Dar es Salaam Times Ltd.