Senior Producer, Social/Audience Growth, English Services
Radio-Canada
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
About the role
- Assign daily news for the network social team by focusing story content with visually compelling treatments.
- Vet social content in video and text formats to meet CBC News standards.
- Format pitches for social-first videos for teams across the country and in world bureaus.
- Train and provide regular feedback to the social team and reporters and producers across CBC News.
- Drive editorial decisions around breaking news, live coverage, and enterprise stories for social and digital platforms.
- Track, interpret and respond to metrics to make data-driven decisions.
- Direct social rollout of major investigations from the fifth estate, visual investigations and more.
- Lead regular training sessions for social-first best practices for TikTok, YouTube and other social platforms.
Requirements
- Minimum seven years recent experience in a social news environment.
- Strong journalistic skills and experience working in a newsroom, particularly in a breaking and live environment.
- High-level knowledge of legal and ethical issues related to journalism.
- University degree or equivalent.
- Ability to assign, manage and motivate a highly collaborative team.
- Extensive knowledge of social media platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, WhatsApp and other platforms.
- Extensive knowledge of audience-listening and metrics tools and how to interpret them.
- Substantial experience writing, copy editing, fact-checking and producing social content.
- Experience in producing news video optimized for digital properties.
- Ability to manage large volumes of fast-moving information and ensure material is directed appropriately.
- Excellent news judgment and ability to work effectively under deadline pressure.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
journalistic skillscopy editingfact-checkingproducing news videodata-driven decision makingsocial content productionstory content formattingmetrics interpretationsocial-first video production
Soft skills
team managementmotivationcollaborationnews judgmentdeadline managementcommunicationinterpersonal skillstrainingfeedback provision
Certifications
university degree