Animator / Motion Designer / Video Editor

About Portable We are Australia’s leading innovation partners for public good – developing technology and design solutions that power the public and the people who serve it. We seek out areas of acute social need and work with government agencies, nonprofit organisations, and socially-minded businesses to make transformational change. There are currently 65+ of us – researchers, strategists, designers, creatives, technologists, and producers – working from our head office in Collingwood and remotely from co-working spaces and homes across Australia.

This role sits in our Design and Creative Services team, which is a multidisciplinary team of human centred designers, producers and creatives who work to understand and define the needs of people and organisations and bring them through a design process towards solutions that make a real difference. Within that, you'll be part of a small, close-knit creative team, focused on storytelling, video / animation production and photography. We work side by side on projects day to day, and lean on each other a lot.

It's a small team, so you'll need to hit the ground running. Then there’s you! We're looking for an Animator / Motion Designer/ Video Editor who's a storyteller first, a technician second.

You'll bring strong craft across animation and editing, but what sets you apart is your instinct for narrative: knowing what to cut, what to linger on, and how to shape footage or motion into something that actually lands with an audience. How to collaborate with clients and the community to tell their stories and elevate different voices. You'll be comfortable sitting in a room with a client or a community member, hold your own creative point of view, and collaborate to tell their stories and elevate different voices, building the work together with them rather than just executing a brief.

You'll work across a mix of client and internal projects, from motion graphics and 2D animation through to video editing and colour grading, translating a client's brand and tone into work that tells stories that matter for organisations working on real social impact. Alongside the craft, you'll bring the judgement and experience to help lead and mentor others as the team grows. If you were here last week, you might have: Design and animate motion graphics, brand animations and title sequences Edit footage, including selects, colour grading, and audio integration Composite footage, including motion tracking and green screen work Bring creative direction and storytelling instinct to client briefs, not just technical execution Collaborate with clients, translating their brand and tone into video and animation Facilitate a storytelling workshop or storyboarding workshop with clients or people with lived experience to draw out their needs, ideas, and constraints.

Contribute to internal storytelling workshops, helping upskill the broader Portable team on how motion, video and animation can support other practices Mentor other editors and animators, with a view to growing into a team leadership role as the team scales Bring a curious, experimental mindset to AI tools (Runway, Artlist, LLMs, image and video models), with a considered point of view on where they help and where they don't You'll be expected to have knowledge and experience in these areas: Strong experience in motion design, 2D animation, and video editing Prolific in After Effects, with strong Premiere Pro skills Illustration and character design skills, with the ability to bring original visual concepts to life.

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