Digital Content Lead

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

The title

Digital Content Lead

Location

Doha, Qatar

Hours

Full Time

Contract

Contract

Salary

Competitive

Posted date

13/05/22

Closing date

30/06/22

**About Ana Alaraby**:
Ana Alaraby (AA) is a leading digital channel from Alaraby Television Network. It is specialised in producing digital content covering trending topics, pop culture, current affairs, awareness, educational, social topics and entertainment. The channel is distributing its content over social media platforms and Alaraby VOD services.
AA connects the audience through social media and video-on-demand platforms, producing interesting stories about politics, economy, art, sports, pop culture, science and public life, awareness, social topics and entertainment. Opens up horizons for the Arab viewers to express themselves, empower their voices, and document their memory. AA is using different formats such as social videos, short animation, documentaries, shows and presenter-led videos.
**The role**:
We are looking for an experienced editor-in-chief to lead the team in both editorial and creative teams to create digital-friendly and high-quality content (social videos, documentaries - digital show strands) for our platforms. From in-house production to commissioning.

**Responsibilities**:

- Play a key role in developing content and publishing strategy for Ana Alaraby
- Oversee the execution of the approved production in line with the publishing strategy
- Lead Ana Alaraby Planning, input and output operations on all aspects
- Supervise Digital newsroom, features and programs and ensure that the rota is meeting the needs of approved content strategy
- Give editorial and creative directions to the team and provide mentorship and feedback to staff
- Monitors input and output of digital content to make sure it conforms to Alaraby Television Network editorial and creative standards
- Selects and defines tasks for team members, in consultation with the Senior Producers
- Develop and maintain effective communications with all stakeholders within the digital department (social media, VOD team and the website)
- Develop and maintain effective communications with all stakeholders within the network (Newsroom, Programs Department, HR, Finance, and procurement)
- Oversees workflow, rota, guidelines, newsgathering system and the publishing schedule
- Ensure the delivery of both in-house and commissioned production is packaged to the high-end standards for each platform (thumbnails, tags, annotations, cards, description, titles, post, metadata, rights, promos and marketing materials)
- Maintain and contribute to an updated calendar of events and coverage, and plan the productions accordingly
- Report to the Head of the Digital Department

**Required skills & experience**:

- A University degree in a relevant discipline
- At least 7 years of experience in working in journalism, with 3 years of experience in a managerial role in the digital environment
- A combination of editorial, creative and technical Knowledge to ensure smooth running of operations, with an understanding of evolving audience requirements and preferences for digital content. Ensuring that new forms of content are being considered
- Experience in developing the content strategy
- Ability to analyse audience engagement and trends, and reflect that on tailoring the products
- In-depth knowledge of news and global affairs is a must, with strong editorial judgement
- Highly organized with strong time-management skills with an ability to cope with a huge volume of news and current affairs materials
- Experience in managing teams and news shifts, solving problems, work under the stress of breaking news and fast headline flow
- Excellent attention to details, delegation, take initiatives, organised and working with minimum supervision
- Strong skills in creative writing in Arabic, with a language that is appropriate and relevant to the style of Alaraby TV and ability to review and verify facts, images and scripts
- Excellent research skills especially in English, and ability to identify in-accurate, misleading and fake sources of information
- Excellent communication skills and ability to handle production workflow with different stakeholders
- Ability to follow up with multiple projects at a time
- News junkie on its wide spectrum (politics, sport, culture, art, economics)
- Wide awareness of digital content channels that are targeting Millennials and Generation Z in MENA and the globe in general
- Experience with newsgathering tools such (as Dataminr, TweetDeck, Crowdtangle, etc...) along with traditional newswires
- Knowledge of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube community standards and copyright policies

**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract