Senior Producer/Producer - News
The Senior Producer/Producer - News is responsible for managing the daily news agenda, overall news content and flow of a newscast. He/ She has an overview of the agendas being pursued and looks out for newsworthy stories that will attract and engage target audience. He manages the resourcing of news content and is responsible for assigning news stories to internal teams. He is also required to edit scripts and reports that are submitted for the newscast and ensure that editorial guidelines and policies set by the organization are adhered to. He is in charge of maintaining the newscast's presence and image on social media platforms and monitors the competitors' activities and trends. In addition, he collaborates with the production teams to ensure continuity of content across different programmers throughout the day. He typically works in a newsroom but may be assigned field activities at times. He should be able to adapt quickly to changes and perform well in a dynamic environment. He should have knowledge of local and international current affairs. He should also have relevant experience working with production setups and have an understanding of the operations of cameras, sound systems and editing systems. He ought to be an effective communicator with understanding of verbal and written communication. He is a good people manager and is able to coach and mentor team members.
Skills and Competencies
Technical Skills & Competencies
Generic Skills & Competencies
Critical Work Functions and Key Tasks
• Update knowledge on local and international news, current affairs and other assigned segments
• Monitor the industry, competitive activities and viewers’ feedback to provide inputs that guide the development of news programme
concepts
• Provide inputs to guide the development of news programme concepts
• Grow relationships with key industry influencers by building credibility and trust
• Develop news content strategy based on competitors' activities and preferences of target audience
• Review news content to ensure alignment to the news story angle and technical requirements
• Compile news stories to prepare the line up for news bulletins based on allocated time and order for stories
• Direct programmer flow to ensure continuity between each newscast broadcasted by the studio
• Participate in forward planning initiatives to manage resourcing for various assignments and projects
• Brief production teams before and after assignment to ensure salient news points are captured for specific stories
• Manage all copyright clearances and legal issues relating to materials used for broadcast
• Liaise with the production team to uphold the technical standards
• Lead collaborations with other teams to develop promotion strategies for upcoming newscasts
• Develop action plans to maintain a global presence using social media platforms
• Manage project to meet schedules, budget, manpower and technical quality targets
• Manage project discipline to document scope changes, issues and risks that affect implementation
• Assist users, technical staff and management to determine and resolve issues associated with project implementation
• Support regular project reviews to recommend schedule changes, cost or resource adjustments
• Communicate common goals, direction and accountability among staff
• Develop staff by coaching, mentoring and engaging in career discussions
• Exhibit effective performance management practices within department in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
• Monitor budgets, forecasting, work allocations and staffing of the various departments