Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for a Global Senior News Content Producer (Maternity Cover) to join our global team.
Team and Job Purpose
To harness the power of brand, creative content, digital marketing, and integrated planning and strategy to expand our reach, increase revenue, and enhance our reputation. Working collaboratively with the global movement, the Global Engagement Team blends art and science to turn insights into action, designing audience-centric strategies, stories and campaigns that connect and inspire, driving lasting impact for children. By engaging more people in our cause and challenging not-for-profit conventions, we develop innovative content marketing and leverage digital technologies to stand out and stay relevant, ensuring the support children need for the future.
Role purpose
To produce and promote timely and engaging multimedia content for media and social media channels, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, and maintaining high ethical standards and safeguarding throughout the content production process to support Save the Children's engagement and impact initiatives.
Job Title: Global Senior News Content Producer (Maternity Cover)
Reports To: Global Story Gathering Lead, Global Creative Content and Brand team
Work Pattern: Hybrid/Remote with flexible working options available
Contract Length: Fixed Term Contract for 12 months (maternity cover)
Location: Any approved Save the Children International office location. For a full list of locations that Save the Children International can hire in, please visit: SCI Careers
Time Zone (that the role holder must be available to work in): Europe, WCA, ESA, MENAEE Time Zones (UTC/GMT + / - 3 hours)
Right to Work: The successful candidate must possess the unrestricted right to work in their current or preferred location for the duration of employment.
International Travel Requirements: up to 15%
Principal Accountabilities
* Produce timely, first-to-market multimedia content to support media packages and social media channels, partnering with the Global Media and Digital teams to drive engagement, aligning with organisational priorities.
* Manage the end-to-end production process of multimedia content for media, ensuring high ethical standards and safeguarding, from trip planning through to post-production and dissemination.
* Collaborate with the Global Story Gathering Lead and Country Office colleagues to commission and produce diverse multimedia assets including b-roll, photography, vlogs, and audio packages for international media and social channels, and pitch to media.
* Consult with Global Digital Engagement colleagues and Global Media Team to develop series of social assets where relevant, supporting the Global Social Media Strategy and engaging priority audiences.
* Follow and ride the news cycle working with the Global Media Unit daily, and work with the Global Creative Content and Brand team's Story Telling Unit to deliver timely content for major humanitarian emergencies and global media and cultural moments, ensuring cross-team alignment with planning and delivery of cohesive packages.
* Work as part of a shared pool of resource in the Global Creative Content and Brand team, able to pivot to organisational priorities.
* Be available for out-of-hours work with the ability to be on call over a weekend roster, managing emergency and urgent situations, ensuring responsive and effective content production and dissemination.
Experience and Skills
Essential
1. Journalistic Acumen and News Content Production
* Foundation of Experience: Proven experience in journalism, in a multimedia or digital storytelling environment, or working with media. Ability to quickly generate content in response to emerging news and global events – understanding differences in social media platforms and their role in digital storytelling
* Proficient Experience: Strong ability to identify and create compelling narratives quickly as news breaks.
* Considerable Experience: Exceptional editorial judgement and news sense, with an understanding of global media and humanitarian landscapes.
* Ability to monitor news cycles, spot rising trends, and liaise effectively with other teams for timely content alignment and delivery during major humanitarian emergencies and media moments.
2. Multimedia Content Production – processing
* Foundation of Experience: Proficiency in processing raw video, photo and audio content with Adobe Creative Suite or similar, including editing video packages (B-rolls), image selection, managing translations and sign-off process, uploading to Save the Children's DAM System (Content Hub) with correct metadata.
* Proficient Experience: Experienced in identifying and solving ethical and safeguarding challenges during the production of content, to deliver content that can be used by all markets despite varying sensitivities and laws.
* Considerable Experience: Expertise in delivering in-depth full case study packages, writing up interviews and overviews into engaging stories, delivering targeted b-rolls, image galleries, key quotes, identifying hero stories, linking package with impact and ensuring follow-ups.
3. Collaboration and Teamwork
* Foundation of Experience: Ability to work collaboratively within a team and with various stakeholders including the Global Media, Digital teams, and Country Office colleagues.
* Proficient Experience: Experience in managing cross-team projects, ensuring cohesive and well-timed content delivery.
* Considerable Experience: Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective relationships within and outside the organisation, valuing diversity as a source of strength.
4. Project Management
* Foundation of Experience: Basic project management skills, including planning, executing, and closing projects.
* Proficient Experience: Experienced in managing multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring on-time delivery and adherence to high ethical and safeguarding standards.
* Considerable Experience: Advanced project management skills to manage the end-to-end production of multimedia content from conceptualisation to dissemination.
5. Ethics and Safeguarding
* Foundation of Experience: Understanding of ethical considerations in content production, including storytelling that respects the dignity and rights of children and vulnerable populations.
* Proficient Experience: Commitment to upholding and implementing safeguarding policies in all aspects of content creation and dissemination.
* Considerable Experience: Ability to ensure the highest standards of integrity, openness, and transparency in the storytelling process.
6. Cultural Competency
* Foundation of Experience: Awareness of cultural diversity and inclusive practices within a global context.
* Proficient Experience: Proactively applies cultural competency in storytelling, ensuring the representation of diverse perspectives.
* Considerable Experience: Leadership in promoting an inclusive work environment that respects and values individual differences.
Desirable
* Extensive involvement in projects that require high adaptability, especially in high-stakes or emergency contexts.
Education and Qualifications
Essential
* Undergraduate degree in a relevant subject or equivalent proven work experience.
* Adobe: Premiere Pro, Indesign, Photoshop, Lightroom
* Canva
* Experience of working on breaking news and in a news environment
* Digital Asset Management experience
* Excellent level of English with courses in or examples of news writing
Desirable
* Additional language skills, particularly Arabic, can be beneficial.
Working at Save the Children International
Save the Children is the world's leading organisation for children, employing ~25,000 staff. We save children's lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Through our work in 116 countries, we put the most deprived and marginalised children first.
We know that great people make a great organisation, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
The work here is challenging but is also immensely rewarding. At Save the Children, you will be in good company, working with talented, like-minded individuals who are determined to ensure that all children survive, learn, and are protected. Your contribution will help ensure children's voices are heard at the highest levels, and that we achieve our global strategy, Ambition for Children 2030, and reach every last child.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Equal Opportunities
DEI is core to our vision, values and global strategy. Save the Children is committed to creating a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation, and one which will support us in our vision to ensure every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, disability, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, caring or parental responsibilities, age, or beliefs and religion. We are committed to diversifying our staff to better represent the communities we serve and actively welcome underrepresented groups to apply.
Reasonable adjustments will be made should any candidate invited to interview require this.
Application Information
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application. A full copy of the role profile can be found here via the job listing. It is recommended that you save a copy of the role profile as it will no longer be available after the advert closes.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the job advert may be closed earlier than advertised subject to the volume of suitable applicants. Please submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Candidates who are successfully shortlisted should expect to hear from us within 2 weeks of the advert deadline.
Our recruitment process:
1. Application review by our recruiting team based on your CV and cover letter
2. Two-stage competency-based interviews with the hiring team
3. Some recruitment may include an additional assessment or case study stage, or a third stage interview
4. If successful, you will receive a conditional offer of employment, followed by your contract subject to passing background checks
We need to keep children and adults safe so our selection process includes rigorous background checks and reflects our commitment to the protection of children and adults from abuse. All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our Code of Conduct and all policies and procedures relating to Anti-harassment, Health and Safety, Safeguarding, and DEI and Equal Opportunities.
Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.