Supervising Producer

Job Description

Paramount is a global media and entertainment organisation with some of the best known and loved brands in the world. Employing over 1,700 people locally, and a further 25,000+ globally, we deliver premium content through multiple platforms for the young (and the young at heart of course!).

We pride ourselves on creating content that gets people talking. What's more, you'll find all these great shows (and more) on our free-to-air channels (10, 10 Bold, 10 Peach, Nickelodeon), our digital platform 10 Play that also includes a vast array of Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV known as FAST (including numerous MTV and Nickelodeon channels), and our subscription video on demand service Paramount+.

1 x Permanent full-time role based in Sydney

1 x Fixed term maternity leave cover based in Sydney

Enough about us! What you'll do as a Supervising Producer:

As a Supervising Producer at 10 News First you'll be a senior member of our editorial team and have the newsroom experience to step into most roles as required. You will EP News Bulletins when required and have high-level control room and lineup skills. Your multitasking abilities will help ensure 10 News First productions go to air accurately and smoothly .

Functions will also include:
• Help oversee the day-to-day requirements of news productions
• Lead a news team, backing up the Executive Producer as required
• Lineup News Bulletins
• Actively contribute to editorial decisions, finding and pitching stories that are relevant to our viewers
• Story writing and editing
• Produce news content for digital and social channels
• Producing a dynamic bulletin, including story development, script approvals, graphics and animations from inception of ideas to on-air
• Produce News Special Events
• Manage time pressures and be able to meet multiple daily deadlines
• Give guidance and feedback to other staff

What are we looking for in a Supervising Producer? What's important?
• You are a news junky, across the issues that are important to our audience
• Extensive newsroom experience.
• Degree or college education in Journalism or Communications preferred
• Strong communication and writing skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure and to multiple deadlines
• Control room and Line-Up experience
• Experience managing and directing news staff
• Availability to work weekends and early/late shifts

Why Paramount?

We could just list the numerous benefits oour employees' avail of every day. However, for now we'll just leave you with how our employees feel about us:
• 92% of our employees stated they would highly recommend Paramount to a friend (Glassdoor)
• We hold a 4.1 STAR RATING, by far the highest rating in the media sector (Seek Company Profiles)

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Paramount embraces differences and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds regardless of factors such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property or birth. These grounds also include age, nationality, marital status, disability, place of residence and sexual orientation.

We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia's First Peoples, and the Traditional Custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging, and we are proud to live in a country which is home to the world's oldest living cultures.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmbk7v-98-82-140-17-42 in your application.