Associate Producer in Regina

At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.

Your role as Canada’s national public broadcaster involves reflecting Canada’s diversity in its workforce and across all platforms. CBC Saskatchewan is looking for a creative, innovative, collaborative and independent-thinking journalist/producer for a unique role as associate producer for the content diversification and creator network unit. This is a full-time, permanent position based in Regina or Saskatoon.

This position is different from any other in Saskatchewan’s newsroom. Reporting to a senior producer, you will work with independent video creators, producing strong original stories that will find audiences on multiple emerging platforms. This work will push the boundaries of our storytelling, focusing on new, diverse perspectives and experiences, told in innovative ways with the goal to draw in new audiences.

Your strengths are both in imaginative storytelling and developing relationships with potential freelance creators, sources and audience members to develop projects that are firmly rooted in this community but that are also surprising to our audience. You are able to encourage and build momentum with emerging storytellers, bringing in their unique perspectives, while communicating the need to balance this with journalistically rigorous storytelling.

Key Tasks include:

• Seek out, connect and build relationships with emerging independent creators and talent from diverse and digital communities.
• Mentor and guide them from pitch to publication and create a sense of belonging for them within the CBC.
• Provide creative feedback and notes while communicating CBC’s journalistic principles and business and rights practices.
• Assist in developing content including idea generating, chasing of voices, writing, researching, editing, preparing questioning, setting up shoots, fact-checking.
• Contribute ideas for content and suggestions for treatment of original, compelling, diverse and people-focused content diversification stories in Saskatchewan.
• Develop and maintain contacts in a range of diverse communities around the region.
• Manage multiple projects on different timelines.
• Communicate and collaborate effectively across multiple departments and outside CBC.

We are looking for a candidate with the following:

• University degree or equivalent.
• Five years’ practical and relevant experience, including some experience with collaborating in creative partnerships and content production.
• A deep understanding of how to work with creatives from all walks of life.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, along with the ability to work under tight deadlines with multiple priorities.
• Strong critical thinking skills and familiarity with CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices.
• Excellent writing, editing, video producing and other digital storytelling skills.
• A demonstrated connection to diverse communities within the Saskatchewan area.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. We value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are recognized and valued.