News Director - Nuevo Mexico

Job Description

Responsibilities

Job Description

The News Director is responsible for the overall management and direction of the news department at KASA in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This role includes strategic planning, supervising staff, maintaining journalistic integrity, and ensuring the delivery of accurate, engaging, and timely news content across multiple platforms.
• Provides leadership and drives strategy for News coverage, driving culture of creativity and excellence.
• Collaborating to ensure local newscasts are well conceived and provide multi-platform, high quality coverage, accuracy, and integrity to improve competitive position in the market.
• In addition to direct oversight of News, this individual will work closely with Sales, Engineering, Production, and other departments to further multi-platform opportunities and support Telemundo branding and programming initiatives.
• Creates the cohesive standards for all aspects of the on-air presentation in coordination with the brand.
• Manages and develops news personnel, makes hiring decisions and establishes performance goals and guidelines.
• Oversees the evaluation and performance appraisal across the News organization.
• Coaches and develops staff to work and grow in a multiplatform environment.
• Drives culture and creativity, excellence, and performance.
• Work with local management in the effective use of resources and synergies in managing operations to develop standards and processes for optimal performance.
• Overall responsibility for newsgathering, production, news programming and presentation.
• Ensure newscasts are well conceived and provide high quality coverage, accuracy and integrity.
• Implement strategic mission and tactical operation of newsroom while ensuring the highest levels of journalistic, ethical, TV production and promotional standards are maintained.
• Oversee day-to-day coverage, big story, breaking news and sweeps planning with consideration of payroll, staffing, field, and news operations to meet established goals and objectives.
• Manage and lead team of News professionals.
• Ability to identify future-scheduled events and plan coverage around them.
• Must plan for the unexpected and respond well in crisis, keeping the news staff focused and committed to performing under extreme tension and pressure.

Qualifications
• Undergraduate degree in Journalism, Communications or equivalent work experience.
• 3 to 5 years in the following areas:
• Experience as a News Director, Assistant News Director or similar leadership role at a broadcast station in major market(s).
• Experience preparing departmental budgets, developing strategic plans to operate within budgets.
• Experience and success in coaching, leading and motivating a team of employees.
• Fluent in English/Spanish.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
• Able to work a flexible schedule and shifts.
• Must be willing to work in Albuquerque, NM
• Must be 18 years or older
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Multi-platform Experience
• Strong Organizational skills
• Marketing Research skills
• Excellent people management, leadership and coaching skills
• Ability to multi-task in a dynamic, content driven, technology intensive environment
• Energetic and diligent in launching major campaigns

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Required On-Site: This position is required to be performed full-time from an NBCUniversal-designated worksite.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1q07x-18-224-95-213-42 in your application.