Head Of Strategic Priorities And Planning

Newly created position
- Work with purpose for a more inclusive Australia
- Flexible working arrangements

We also acknowledge the unique contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples make to our society and our workplace through their enduring and continued connection to land, sea, sky and community.
**About Us**
SBS is one of the world's most unique and innovative media organisations, producing trusted, meaningful and engaging content that exists for all Australians to inspire, support and celebrate the diversity of our multicultural society.
Our purpose, for the last 40 years, has reflected and explored the evolving diversity of Australia, investing in initiatives to deepen its connections with communities, sharing their stories and giving a voice to those often unheard, with the aim of increasing understanding and respect of the differences that make up Australia.
SBS is a truly distinctive network, showcasing multicultural, multilingual and First Nations stories otherwise untold in the Australian media.
**The Department**
The SBS Television and Online Content Division is responsible for the development, commissioning, acquisition, programming and curation of distinctive content for our many diverse audiences across a portfolio of free-to-air television channels including SBS, NITV, SBS Viceland, SBS Food and SBS World Movies as well as SBS OnDemand and our online website offerings such as SBS Voices. The division is also responsible for the continuous development of SBS On Demand to ensure a world class offering to its growing audiences.
Reporting into the Director of Television and as a senior member of the SBS TVOC team, it is required to work with other members of the TVOC and broader SBS team to support the planning and delivery of the TVOC Division's goals including audience growth across Television, Streaming and Online platform and the production and acquisition of a range of distinctive Australian and overseas content.
This role will include and not be limited to the following responsibilities
- Providing support on strategic and business unit priority planning to the Director of Television
- Supporting the team in the delivery of channel and On Demand strategies, and lead the compilation of channel strategy documents
- Leading the forecasting of audience performance analysis as part of the annual budget cycle, supported by the Audience Data & Insights and SBS On Demand analytics teams
- Working collaboratively with the Content Leadership Team, in particular Head of Network Programming and Commissioning to support them in identifying and targeting audience opportunities, programming options, release strategies, product/marketing effectiveness, and digital transition
- Providing ad hoc analysis which will require an ability to analyse audience and financial information as well as having an ability to take into account more nuanced inputs such as editorial sensibility and company charter

You might want to consider what other opportunities this could lead to down the track.
**About you**
To be successful in this role, you will have excellent analytic, presentation and communication skills. A passion for the SBS purpose and for editorial content. A highly collaborative style and driven to succeed.
Experience in a similar media - audience, streaming, business analytics role is preferred
Feel like you meet most, but perhaps not all the criteria listed? Then, send through your detail as whilst we have specific requirements in mind we can look at how we can bridge the gaps
**Some of the reasons to consider working with us**
- The people a genuine sense of feeling included (we truly celebrate and welcome difference) and being part of one of the most inclusive companies in Australia
- The culture and the engagement of our workforce, we are proud to have an employee engagement score of 82% with low levels of employee turnover.
- A brand that is not only recognisable but trusted and established, we have been broadcasting for over 40 years and we're not done yet
- We offer a range of benefits from, health care checks, salary packaging, Employee Assistance Programme, flexible work arrangements and for our Sydney based employee's free gym membership
- We also love to promote from within we have allocated funds to do just that and help with training gaps when moving from role to role.

For other opportunities within our organisation please visit our careers website SBS Careers - Working at SBS
**Reasonable adjustments**
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