Social Media Producer

Job no: 502953
Work type: Ongoing Full Time
Location: Darwin
Categories: Journalism/Content Making, Social Media/ Digital, Production/Content

• Build strong engagement with local audiences
• Create authentic and high-quality content across multiple social media platforms
• Location - Darwin
• Full-time, permanent position

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.

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About the Role

Come and work and live in Darwin in the Northern Territory - where you can enjoy fresh produce markets that have a myriad of Asian vegetables, cycle through waterfront parks, go fishing for Barra, or go for a short drive to stunning national parks where you can swim in waterfalls.

ABC Darwin has an opportunity for a social media producer to join the team, where you will plan & produce social media content to deepen engagement and further 'off platform' reach. Under the direction of the Content Director, you will:

• Create social media content that aligns with ABC strategy and Regional & Local objectives.
• Identify target audience segments for stories.
• Contribute to planning and commissioning processes to develop and distribute new content ideas.

You will also have the opportunity to keep up to date with regular updates on best practices in social media use, tools, and industry developments and share this knowledge with the relevant teams.

About You

If you've got relevant skills, knowledge and experience in the curation of social media or digital content we'd love to see your application! Some experience or exposure of this within a media organisation would be advantageous.

In this exciting role you will also bring:

• Demonstrated experience in digital content production, including video recording and editing.
• A passion for building community on key social media platforms (eg Facebook, Youtube, Instagram)
• Proficiency in creating and curating engaging visual content which reflects the diversity of the Australian community.
• Ability to exercise sound editorial judgement.
• Excellent communication skills.

For further details on the role and requirements, please refer to the full position description:

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 Cherie Beach, A/Local Manager on (08) 8943 3230

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, Sunday 29 January
Advertised: 13 Jan 2023 8:00 AM AUS Central Standard Time
Applications close: 29 Jan 2023 11:55 PM AUS Central Standard Time