Visual Storyteller

Job Details: Level: Experienced, Job Location: Kansas City, MO 64111, Position Type: Full Time, Travel Percentage: Up to 25%, Job Shift: Day, Job Category: Marketing, Organizational Profile

At The Global Orphan Project, our mission is to break the orphan cycle by addressing its root causes, relational and economic, strengthening families before breakdown occurs. We believe the God designed the as the foundation of society. When families fracture, children pay the highest price, often entering destructive downstream systems such as street life, prison, and human trafficking.

When our ministry began, we sought to respond to this crisis by building physical orphanages around the world. But along the way, we discovered something that changed our trajectory: up to 90% of children living in orphanages globally have at least one living parent who could care for them if they had the means. Many were placed in orphanages not because of abuse or abandonment, but because their parents, often single mothers, felt unable to provide for them.

We soon recognized the same reality in our own nation. In the richest country the world has ever known, the leading reason children enter foster care is not abuse, it's neglect, most often tied to poverty.

This conviction drives us today: to come alongside families, churches, and communities, offering hope and tangible solutions so that children can grow up in a loving family. We achieve this through preventative platforms. Preventative platforms are a bottom-up, community-based, family-strengthening approach that creates strategic and effective local interventions that stop family breakdown before it starts at scale.

Position Summary

The GO Project Visual Storyteller is a high-capacity creative contributor whose primary role is connecting donors to the children, families, and local partners whose lives they are changing. Through video and photography, this role creates the emotional experiences that turn a donor into a committed advocate and nurtures our connection with existing advocates. As part of the responsibilities of this role, the Visual Storyteller will develop and execute strategies for more immersive ways of storytelling, such as VR/360 formats, that transport our audience to see firsthand the impact our local partners have.

Primary functions include pre-production planning, shooting, editing, and delivering original story content across multiple formats. This role also collaborates with contractors in the field where GO Project’s local partners serve, requiring both remote meetings and periodic travel to build field media capability. Asset management, b-roll collection, and creating finished pieces for a variety of media will be essential to the success of this role. 

Primary Responsibilities

Plan, shoot, and edit original video and photography that connect donors to the children, families, and local partners GO Project serves
Manage the full production cycle, from pre-production planning through final delivery, across multiple content formats
Plan and execute product and lifestyle photography shoots for GOEX Apparel
Work closely with the marketing team for concept and script development
Lead ideation in creative ways to incorporate innovative elements that emotionally connect with audiences in video & photo assets
Travel periodically to field locations to capture content and build local media capability alongside in-country contractors and partners
Collect and organize b-roll and maintain an accessible, well-managed media asset library
Deliver finished pieces suited to their intended platform (social, web, email, donor events, and similar channels)
Bring a mission-aligned storytelling voice to every piece, consistent with GO Project's brand and faith posture

Qualifications: Required Skills

Five years or more of strong video and photography production skills, including planning, shooting, and editing original content from concept to final delivery
Comfort working in the field, including travel to international or domestic partner locations and collaborating with local contractors
Proficiency in

Video editing with Adobe Premiere, Final Cut or similar
Audio/narration editing with Audacity, Adobe Audition, or similar
Photo editing with Adobe lightroom, Capture One Pro, or similar
Motion graphics creation with Adobe After Effects or similar

Strong ability to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and deliver results proactively
Asset management discipline, keeping footage, photos, and finished pieces organized and easy for the team to find and reuse
Versatility across formats, able to shape one story into the right cut for social, web, email, or a live event
Storytelling judgment, able to find and frame the emotional core of a moment while representing subjects with dignity and honesty
Ability to travel internationally for up to two weeks at a time up to twice a year
Must be able to lift video and camera equipment as well as travel with equipment if needed
Ability to be outdoors in warm or cold climates while filming and overnighting in third-world countries
Ability to hike to remote production locations while carrying camera/video equipment.

Preferred Experience

Experience with VR/360 video capture and post-production workflows (360 cameras, spatial audio, headset delivery)
Familiarity with emerging or immersive storytelling formats beyond traditional video and photography
Experience integrating AI-assisted tools into a creative production workflow, including voiceover tools.