Senior Producer – Digital Special Projects – Al Jazeera , Qatar , Doha

Summary:
The Senior Producer will be responsible for ensuring that the editorial team will produce highly shareable, cutting edge, long-form/short-form, in-depth digital content, as well as focusing on content that creates conversations on social networks, catches rising conversations on social networks, enhances the discussions and lends a perspective based on facts creating an impact with our global audience.
S/He will help the EP of Digital Special Projects to set the editorial direction for productions and will be part of the development & experimentation process within the Special Projects Department, as well as managing a team of multi skilled members.

Key Responsibilities:
Lead a shift/team of multi skilled producers, associate producers and researchers.
Lead the daily content production and report its performance
Revise, finalize and approve all relevant scripts/productions.
Produce as well as supervise all relevant scripts and productions.
Work/coordinate closely with the team leads (planning, creative, engagement and shows) to ensure they are leveraging the original/native content being produced.
Provide editorial direction to various digital content streams.
Lead in monitoring media landscape and latest content trends
Lead in researching current content production models and techniques
Lead the editorial meetings when necessary.
Assist in finalizing production schedules and editorial projects.
Produce new content ideas and experiments
Assist in drafting content concepts in different formats (text, video, audio)
Supervise the commissioning process for any content format
Mentoring and staff development

Key Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in digital media, journalism, or related field or equivalent education and/or experience.
Minimum 5 year of professional experience in Digital Media/Media field is required.
Proven experience in video production or online/digital Journalism.

You will have:
Deep knowledge in digital media content production
Deep Knowledge of regional and global media landscape
An understanding of social media networks
Good understanding of data and statistical information
Familiar with project management software

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