Children’s Digital Production Internship – Spring 2025

October 16, 2024

Website GBH

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

GBH Children’s Media is an international leader in creating compelling educational and engaging media for a wide variety of audiences. The group develops content for the web and mobile devices. The department’s work in digital reaches a huge online and mobile audience, in and out of homes and classrooms. This vibrant digital content for kids, families, and teachers keeps public media relevant in the 21st century, and our collaborative, team-based approach to creating these products makes GBH a dynamic, friendly and exciting place to work. The department also partners on many projects with learning scientists to build the research base for understanding early learning with interactive technology. Please note, this position is focused on production of digital games.

JOB OVERVIEW

As an intern, you’ll learn the ins and outs of a digital producer’s role at GBH Kids. You’ll work directly with producers, learning a range of editorial and production skills, and supporting the creation of fun and educational online and mobile experiences. You will participate in production brainstorms and meetings with teams of designers and developers, and, based on project needs, contribute to content and landscape research, assist with project management and meeting notes, learn game design, copy edit, do quality assurance testing, and attend play testing with kids. You will also gain skills in industry-standard project management software, such as Jira and Confluence. You will receive training as needed for all responsibilities.

You may have the opportunity to work on games and other interactive media for one or more PBS Kids project, such as: Team Hamster!, an interactive digital series that helps kids use engineering skills to solve problems; Work It Out Wombats!, a playful preschool series about computational thinking; and Ruff Ruffman: Humble Media Genius, an animated digital series that introduces kids to media literacy.

With appropriate support from GBH, you will be required to work in a way that is compliant with all Federal regulations relating both to budgetary compliance and to FTC and FCC rules about multimedia and children.

To see a range of the team’s recent work or learn more about the team, see https://www.wgbh.org/kids and https://wgbhkids.com/portfolio-2/

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Work in our Boston office one day a week (Tuesday or Wednesday)
  • Responsibilities will be based on production schedules at the time including tasks such as:
  • Record placeholder voice-over audio and cut audio files
  • Source SFX for games
  • Prepare scripts for voice-over audio records with voice actors
  • Create and check Jira tickets for production tasks
  • Review and QA game designs and builds
  • Participate in team production and brainstorming meetings
  • Take meeting notes
  • Attend play testing with kids
  • Other production tasks as needed

SKILL SET

  • Interest in children’s interactive media (games, apps, websites)
  • Willingness to learn new skills
  • Ability to communicate proactively and clearly with others in a hybrid work scenario
  • Ability to deliver high-quality work within time constraints
  • Excellent organizational, management skills, and interpersonal skills
  • Experience working with young children or deep familiarity with children’s media content preferred

JOB STATUS

Paid Internship $17/hour (Part-time)

INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW

GBH internships provide students with valuable work experience and real-world knowledge across many different fields of study, from TV and radio production to web design, accounting, law, and other administrative areas

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

  • Internship dates: January 27th to April 18th
  • Candidates must have their own computer and access to Wi-Fi
  • Candidates must be in an Undergrad or Grad program and have work authorization for the United States

To apply for this job please visit publicmedia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com.