Editor, ABC Tropical North

  • Use your strong editorial and leadership skills
  • Ongoing, Full-Time Role
  • Build strong engagement with local audiences
  • Location: Mackay

Are you ready to stretch your leadership skills with this development opportunity in one of Queensland’s most desirable locations?

We are looking for an editorial leader who loves creating multiplatform content across platforms that engage local, state and national audiences.

This role would suit an experienced journalist who understands how to engage and grow the audience, how to inspire a high-performing and complex team and how to deliver real impact for the community.

With strong editorial and leadership skills, including the ability to source and analyse information and exercise reliable judgement, in this key role you will bring:

  • Excellent news judgment.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading and developing teams and mentoring colleagues.
  • Strong understanding of the issues that affect and interest the audience.
  • High-level problem-solving, organisation and time management skills.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and build relationships with people from a range of diverse backgrounds.
  • Drive, tenacity and a results-driven attitude.

About the Role

ABC News has a rare vacancy for an Editor to join the leadership group of ABC Regional Queensland to lead and inspire the local team based in Mackay.

We are seeking a dynamic leader to set a news agenda in the Whitsunday region. The position, based in the ABC’s centrally located Mackay office, will oversee small teams of reporters, presenters and producers working across radio, television, digital and social media.

In this key role, you will develop the teams, build and maintain a collaborative and high-performance culture, and provide editorial leadership in planning and production to create distinctive and compelling content across all platforms.

This role involves radio programs and news across television, digital and social media but do not be dissuaded if you don’t have experience in all these platforms because if you have a strong editorial skillset and leadership experience, we can support the development of your technical skills.

The position is based in Mackay but serves a region including Airlie Beach and the Whitsundays, the mining region west to Moranbah and Dysart and agricultural areas south to Sarina.

About the ABC

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 further details on the role and requirements, please refer to the full position description: Download File 50046511 EDITOR, ABC TROPICAL NORTH.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 Sue McVay, Regional Editor QLD on 0413 601 066. 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.

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