Supervising Producer

Paramount is a global media and entertainment organisation with some of the best known and loved brands in the world. Employing over 1,700 people locally, and a further 25,000+ globally, we deliver premium content through multiple platforms for the young (and the young at heart of course).

We pride ourselves on creating content that gets people talking. What’s more, you’ll find all these great shows (and more) on our free-to-air channels (10, 10 Bold, 10 Peach, Nickelodeon), our digital platform 10 Play that also includes a vast array of Free Ad-Supported Streaming TV known as FAST (including numerous MTV and Nickelodeon channels), and our subscription video on demand service Paramount+.

This is a permanent full-time role based in Sydney.

**Enough about us What you’ll do as a Supervising Producer**:
As a Supervising Producer at 10 News First you’ll be a senior member of our editorial team and have the newsroom experience to step into most roles as required. You will EP News Bulletins when required and have high-level control room and lineup skills. Your multitasking abilities will help ensure 10 News First productions go to air accurately and smoothly.

**Functions will also include**:
Help oversee the day-to-day requirements of news productions
Lead a news team, backing up the Executive Producer as required
Lineup News Bulletins
Actively contribute to editorial decisions, finding and pitching stories that are relevant to our viewers
Story writing and editing
Produce news content for digital and social channels
Producing a dynamic bulletin, including story development, script approvals, graphics and animations from inception of ideas to on-air
Produce News Special Events
Manage time pressures and be able to meet multiple daily deadlines
Give guidance and feedback to other staff

What are we looking for in a Supervising Producer? What’s important?

You are a news junky, across the issues that are important to our audience
10+ years of newsroom experience.
Degree or college education in Journalism or Communications preferred
Strong communication and writing skills
Attention to detail
Ability to work under pressure and to multiple deadlines
Control room and Line-Up experience
Experience managing and directing news staff
Availability to work weekends and early/late shifts

Why Paramount?
We could just list the numerous benefits our employees avail of every day. However, for now we'll just leave you with how our employees feel about us:

- 92% of our employees stated they would highly recommend Paramount to a friend (Glassdoor)
- We hold a 4.1 STAR RATING, by far the highest rating in the media sector (Seek Company Profiles)

We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia’s First Peoples, and the Traditional Custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging, and we are proud to live in a country which is home to the world’s oldest living cultures.

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Seeing responsibilities and competencies laid out on paper can be confronting. At this stage of the recruitment process, sometimes imposter syndrome can creep in and mess with our confidence.
Please know that we list these items to give you an opportunity to show us your potential and how you can grow and transform with us. Your ability to demonstrate that you have the real potential to develop the required capabilities, knowledge, and experience to perform in this role is what we would like to hear from you. Where possible, you should support your claims with specific examples of what you have done, and how you did it.