News Director

Description

WFFF (FOX44) & WVNY (ABC22), located in Burlington, Vermont, America’s most beautiful college city, has an opening for a motivated News Director. 

The News Director leads and supervises all aspects of news, weather and sports programming production.

Duties & Responsibilities:

•        Manages all aspects of the News Department (other than Production)

•        Plans and manages staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News Department.

•        Makes decisions regarding hiring, evaluation, promotion and termination of employees.

•        Develops news coverage strategy for the station and its website.

•        Critiques newscasts daily to correct errors, improve coverage and provide mentoring feedback to news staff.

•        Assigns projects to staff and verifies that deadlines are being met.

•        Ensures achievement of viewer rating goals.

•        Determines programming and evaluation of equipment needs to produce quality programming.

•        Responds to coverage questions.

•        Works with other senior station leaders to establish and reach station goals.

•        Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Skills:

•        Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.

•        Fluency in English.

•        Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

•        Minimum five years’ experience in news programming production, with at least two years’ experience in a leadership role. (More or less depending on market size.)

•        Experience guiding, directing and motivating subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.

•        Experience establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.

•        Ability to identify the developmental needs of others and to coach, mentor or otherwise help others to improve their knowledge or skills.

•        Experience preparing and maintaining departmental budgets.

•        Proficiency with computers, telephones, copiers, scanners, fax machines and other office equipment.

•        Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

•        Ability to effectively listen to fully understand employee needs and communicate with a team to shape a solution.

Apply by visiting: https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/aboutus/work-for-us/

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