Vacancy - CBC Radio

Producer (English Services)

CBC/Radio-Canada

When you work at CBC/Radio-Canada, you're part of an inspiring, entertaining, truly Canadian organization. Each day, some of the industry's most creative minds come to work for a world leader in public broadcasting that fuels the Canadian dream, making our national broadcaster one of the country's largest cultural institutions.

The regional arts content unit produces local arts and culture stories across platforms, including online, radio and TV, with additional commitment to CBC Music and community cultural events. We are looking for a producer (a one year term) to lead the regional arts content unit in Winnipeg. The producer is responsible for online and on-air quality for Manitoba SCENE and SCENE On Air, and social media, ensuring our product consistently meets the program mission and values as well as CBC journalistic standards and practices. As a producer, you are responsible for assigning vetting and lining up online stories and some radio stories. You lead team meetings which include: weekly story, pitch, planning and feedback sessions. You manage the team workflow as well as generate theme and story ideas for the local arts hub. You work closely with various units within the corporation to ensure art stories are delivered to all media platforms. You are responsible for budgets, events, CFM and freelancers, identifying and developing talent as well as staffing issues. You collaborate with the senior management team on the development plan for the unit and lead the execution of that plan. You expand and maintain content partnerships with local arts and culture organizations. Where required you will lead special projects/productions which includes planning, execution and delivery of content to all regional platforms and culminate in a public event.
Qualifications

We are seeking a candidate with the following qualifications:

• Job requires a university degree or equivalent;
• Five years' experience of which three must involve work in broadcasting or a closely related industry, which is directly related to the area of assignment;
• A strong team leader with the ability to inspire others;
• Demonstrated talent as a content producer;
• Superior writing, editorial and production skills, with knowledge of online and radio storytelling;
• Video editing an asset;
• Solid journalistic background;
• An ability to choose relevant, audience focused stories, which reflect the interests and concerns of our local audience;
• Demonstrated skills in the area of conflict resolution, mentoring, talent recognition and development;
• An innovator and risk taker;
• A commitment to reflecting community and diversity;

CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada's national public broadcaster and one of its largest cultural institutions. CBC/Radio-Canada brings diverse regional and cultural perspectives into the daily lives of Canadians in English, French and eight Aboriginal languages.
CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to reflecting the country's diversity within its workforce and encourages applications from people of any wealth of cultures, linguistic and ethnocultural communities, gender, sexual orientations, ages, religions and those with different abilities.

For more information, visit the Talent and Diversity section of our corporate website: www.cbc.ca/jobs.

If this sounds interesting, we want to hear from you! We thank you for your interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Application deadline: 19 / 06 / 2012
Website: CBC/Radio-Canada