News Director – Koaa

News Director – Koaa

Requirements

• BS/BA in related discipline or equivalent years of experience preferred
• Generally, 10+ years of experience in related field preferred
• Prior managerial experience preferred
• Familiarity with the local market, including current or prior residence in market strongly desired
• Experience conceiving and executing multi-platform projects required
• Experience leading content creation teams on a minimum of two platforms desired
• Experience acquiring audience with a demonstrated pattern or track record of success desired
• Experience managing brand desired

Responsibilities

• Ensure the news operations build and maintain key relationships to foster a positive news image in the community.
• Apply knowledge of the consumer and local community to know consumer expectations on all platforms, set brand and strategy and align organization to deliver against expectations.
• Use the Scripps content strategy as the foundation and set the specific local content strategy, tone, and expectation in the newsroom.
• Collaborate with team to develop and implement strategic plans for market growth on all platforms.
• Lead a highly collaborative team in the daily and long-term execution of the content strategy.
• Ensure centralized, shared editorial process and resources to enable seamless delivery to all platforms.
• Work closely with direct reports and extended team to evaluate product trends on all platforms and to set goals that drive continuous improvement.
• Work closely with direct reports and extended team to continuously evaluate and adjust workflow so that operations are fully optimized across the entire newsroom.
• Develop and maintain annual content budget to comply with station guidelines.
• Delegate and empower team to provide effective coaching and support to foster continuous improvement.
• Develop a high-performing, highly interdependent team by aligning team purpose vision and goals, building trust, establishing clear roles, facilitating effective planning, execution and recognition; Addresses teaming issues in a timely manner.
• Work with team to continually assess staff training needs and provides guidance to ensure training and information needs are met.
• Take ownership of all platforms so that tradeoffs are managed without detriment to our consumers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must be able to lead large multi-level teams, with a preference for those who have direct experience managing teams with 40+ employees and directing the work of people managers
• Strong understanding of journalistic ethics and libel
• Local connections and community knowledge / community causes
• Customer focus: understands customer needs, raises the bar on customer service, develops unified approach to exceed customer expectations
• Broad knowledge of all media platforms
• Effective communicator