News Director

Job Description

WNCT/ENCT 9 On Your Side is looking for our next News Director. We're a CBS/CW located in Greenville, North Carolina. This is a great opportunity to grow your management skills. The right candidate will be a compassionate leader with strong mentoring skills. Primary duties include managing the day-to-day operation, recruiting, training, leading, and inspiring the next generation of journalists.

The Greenville-New Bern-Washington, NC DMA is a 15-county coverage area that spans from Interstate 95 to the Atlantic coast and includes the cities of Greenville (where our main studio is located), New Bern, Jacksonville, Morehead City, and Kinston. Known as Eastern North Carolina, our region has a diverse population with equally diverse economic drivers. From a heavy agricultural presence to a variety of manufacturing from boats to pharmaceuticals, and East Carolina University and the Brody School of Medicine, there is a wealth of information to deliver to our viewers, which we do by programming 34½ hours of news each week. This pairs with our 24/7 capabilities of WNCT.com, which showed record growth in 2023. Weather is also a unique element in our region with our proximity to the coast.

This year, WNCT is celebrating 70 years of excellence in Eastern North Carolina. If you're interested in being part of our growth while leading others, apply using the link above.

The News Director leads and supervises all aspects of news, weather, and sports programming production.
• Manages all aspects of the News Department
• Plans and manages staffing, training, and performance evaluations for the News Department.
• Makes decisions regarding hiring, evaluation, promotion and termination of employees.
• Develops news coverage strategy for the station and its website.
• Critiques newscasts daily to correct errors, improve coverage and provide mentoring feedback to news staff.
• Assigns projects to staff and verifies that deadlines are being met.
• Ensures achievement of viewer rating goals.
• Determines programming and evaluation of equipment needs to produce quality programming.
• Responds to coverage questions.
• Works with other senior station leaders to establish and reach station goals.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Skills:
• Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
• Fluency in English.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Minimum five years' experience in news programming production, with at least two years' experience in a leadership role. (More or less depending on market size.)
• Experience guiding, directing and motivating subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Experience establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Ability to identify the developmental needs of others and to coach, mentor or otherwise help others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Experience preparing and maintaining departmental budgets.
• Proficiency with computers, telephones, copiers, scanners, fax machines and other office equipment.
• Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize assignments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to effectively listen to fully understand employee needs and communicate with a team to shape a solution.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy6kzm-13-59-183-186-42 in your application.