Senior Editorial Planning Producer

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Senior Editorial Planning Producer

Washington, DC
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    The Senior Editorial Planning Producer leads the planning team on a day to day basis to enable our editorial teams deliver unique reporting in long- and short-term coverage of global and national trends, news events and social and political developments in line with the signature voice and concerns of the AJ+ brand. This position will also require supervising the acquisition of Newsgathering assets such as interviews, and working on various partnerships with other media organizations and NGOs in producing content with other editorial teams at AJ+. The Senior Editorial Planning producer must effectively support the Head of Planning in implementing the daily and long-term agenda of editorial priorities, assuring that AJ+ is across all upcoming relevant news events and across special coverage of important world and regional events.  

    ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

    • Work with planning team members in creation of prospects (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) and special coverage strategy
    • Work with editorial teams on projects based on news prospects and special events, and support them with newsgathering preparation

    • Support Head of Planning in finalizing all planning schedules on a weekly, monthly and annually basis

    • Work with editorial and engagement teams in finalization of production schedules and projects
    • Work with production staff and ensure editorial resources are directed to priority stories

    • Assist in finding editorial partners and supporting/managing partnerships

    • Lead communications between Audience Development team and Planning Department

    OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Work with external partners

    • Guide the efforts of planning producers and associate producers

    • Work closely with Audience Development team on AJ+ coverage, prospects, and special events.

    • Work closely with all other Editorial departments at AJ+ in planning of AJ+ coverage of world and U.S. events
    • Engage with audience on social media in professional manner while following network guidelines

     EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE 

    • Bachelor Degree in journalism, communication or related fieds
    • 7 years’ experience within related field
    • Sound editorial judgment of Global Issues 
    • Sound leadership and communication abilities. 
    • Mastery over the social media landscape. 
    • Experienced in managing large social media campaigns. 
    • Experienced and good copy editor.