Senior Planning Producer

• Contract Vacancy for Approximately 12 Months
• Ultimo, Sydney: Convenient CBD location (near Central Station)
• Create authentic and high-quality news content across multiple platforms
• $98K to $119K plus 15.4% ABC Nominated Super Fund

About the Role

ABC News is seeking a Senior Planning Producer to plan and coordinate multi-platform coverage and content for major news events and other stories, with a focus on reaching new audiences.

In this key role, you will:

• Commission stories on key news themes, generate story ideas and fresh angles, and help build detailed distribution plans to reach the audience.
• Pitch stories that are relevant to Australians and reflect the cultural, geographic, and socio-economic diversity of the country.
• Help deliver digital-first, trusted and impactful journalism, with an audience-centred approach.

About You

Do you love it when a plan comes together? To be successful in this position, you will have a strong track record of planning and executing complex multiplatform news and event coverage. Experience commissioning for web and app platforms is highly desirable. You will also have:

• Experience using audience insights and data to inform commissioning and prioritise stories for platforms.
• High level ability to work collaboratively with a diverse range of people across the ABC and assist in building team relationships with colleagues.
• Excellent organisational skills including the ability to meet tight deadlines and experience using planning tools.
• Well developed communication and interpersonal skills, ability to apply initiative, exercise tact and discretion.

The ABC strives for diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and to promote a culture of opportunity. Through its services the ABC seeks to represent, connect and engage with all of the Australian community. In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.

For more information about working at the ABC, please feel free to explore our careers page at https://www.abc.net.au/careers/

About ABCNews

ABC News is the most respected name in news and current affairs and the nation's leading independent news service on television, radio, digital and social media. Our flagship brands and services include Four Corners, 7.30, Australian Story, AM, PM, Foreign Correspondent, Insiders, Q&A, ABC News 7PM, ABC News on digital and social media and ABC news channels on radio and television.

For further details on the role and requirements, please refer to the full position description:  50041548 SENIOR PLANNING PRODUCER.pdf

We would love to see your work. Please submit material with your application online (include examples, links to websites or attach audio/video files up to 5MB).

For further information on this position please contact Meredith Griffiths, Deputy Planning Editor via ***************@abc.net.au 

We are unable to accept email applications, please ensure that you submit your application via the online portal.

We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.

Applications Close: 11:55 pm, Wednesday 1 May