The incumbent is responsible for conceptualizing, developing, and producing original, compelling programming that aligns with the channel’s editorial direction. This includes delivering high-quality, audience-specific content such as news packages, segments, specials, and breaking news coverage. The incumbent will proactively manage a broadcast team, collaborate with the newsroom and technical operations, oversee script editing, coordinate graphics production, and ensure a seamless, error-free broadcast that drives market share. Additionally, they will provide clear creative and editorial direction to the gallery, ensuring a distinctive on-air look, feel, and treatment while being accountable for audience engagement and ratings performance.
Management, Interpersonal and Team Facilitation
- Recruit, develop, and allocate resources effectively to optimize skills and productivity.
- Monitor performance, ensuring alignment with company policies and values.
- Make sure that a checklist is completed before each show and implemented
- Oversee shift planning and execution per company standards and legislation.
- Pre-plan each show to align the output team with editorial objectives.
Stakeholder Interaction
- Build and maintain strong, diverse internal and external relationships to drive business goals.
- Balance personal and professional interactions, prioritizing organizational interests.
- Ensure pre-planning meetings occur before each show, with key management updates shared with teams weekly.
Functional Planning and Performance
- Translating the strategy into an operational plan, where targets and performance measures are clear and aligned to the overall strategic direction/focus of the business.
- Regularly monitoring the operational plan, ensuring that targets are consistently met/achieved and where necessary adapt and implement remedial steps to deliver results.
Strategic Contribution
- Drive market share growth by aligning programming with audience needs and strategic goals.
- Foster an agile, data-driven content approach that continuously improves audience engagement.
- Ensuring that the strategic priorities of the organisation are translated and implemented in the team to drive and deliver operational standards of excellence.
Team and Personal Development
- Stay abreast of role and industry developments and ensure that skills and experience remain updated.
- Keep team skills and knowledge current, particularly in journalism and media trends.
- Proactively manage performance, addressing concerns with clear, timely actions.
- Identify and implement training programs to develop team capabilities, skills and experience.
Content Generation, Broadcast Delivery and Editorial Leadership
- Produce well-researched, balanced, and engaging content that aligns with editorial policies.
- Provide editorial guidance, ensuring thorough planning, research, and news coverage.
- Lead editorial meetings, brainstorm content ideas, and approve expert guest selections.
- Enhance storytelling with visuals, infographics, and other media elements.
- Manage live content, oversee on-air graphics, and ensure smooth broadcast execution.
- Take final accountability for editorial decisions and provide continuous feedback to improve performance.
- Continuously review and provide feedback to the value chain, including Anchors, to ensure optimal performance and delivery of the content strategy.
- Brief the production hub on specific relevant productions and manage the turnaround time.
Stakeholder Relationships
- Building, supporting and maintaining interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance team environment.
- Ensure 100% compliance with productivity targets, shift rosters, and performance reviews.
- Promote company values daily and maintain low staff turnover.
Qualifications
Bachelors Degree (3 years - 360 credits) - Television or Media Studies - Essential
Experience
Broadcast Journalism- 8 years operational - Essential
Broadcast Journalism- 3 years supervisory - Essential
Drivers Licences
Code B; Articulated motor vehicle license - Essential
Technology Proficiency
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) - Basic
Technical / Job Specific Competencies
Accuracy / Attention to Detail
Building Strategic Working Relationships
Contributing to Team Success
Negotiation
Stress Tolerance
