• Be a part of Australia's independent national broadcaster
• Renmark Location
• Contract Vacancy for Approximately 11 Months
• Part-Time Hours (30 hours/week)
• Generate original story ideas for your relevant target audience

About ABC Regional & Local

The ABC’s Regional & Local team is all about Australian communities and their conversations. Our teams create unique and distinctive content that connect communities and shape lives in metropolitan, regional and remote Australia. From our eight capital city radio stations, our forty four regional bureaux, through to screen, live events and sport, Regional & Local is about real people, real places and real life.

About the Role

Reporting to the Chief of Staff and working together within a small team, you will create content for multiple platforms to engage local and national audiences.

You will also:

• Create original, accurate content for radio, video, social, digital, mobile, TV and audio platforms.
• Facilitate and moderate audience driven content initiatives, including social news-gathering.
• Explore and investigate issues, people and places that are important to the audience, and tell those stories to a national diverse audience.
• Develop digital skills of content teams through mentoring and guidance.
• Support news-gathering operations where required

About You

Do you have strong editorial instincts, with experience in creating unique stories that resonate with audiences and told with creativity, brevity and flair?

To be successful in this role, you will also have:

• Proficiency in capture of audio, video and still images to enhance stories, and post-production experience.
• Understanding of local regional audience and national audience habits.
• Tech savvy mindset using content management systems and social media tools.
• Great communication skills to build relationships with people from a range of diverse backgrounds.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel to remote locations . 
• Current valid driver's license.

For further details on the role and requirements, please refer to the full position description:  50012305 REPORTER FEATURES.pdf

We would love to see your work. Please submit material with your application online (include examples, links to websites or attach audio/video files up to 5MB).

For further information on this position please contact Meg Vonic-Joyce, Chief of Staff, Renmark on (08) 8586 1310

We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.

For more information on working at the ABC visit abc.net.au/careers

Applications Close: 11:55 pm, Monday 25 January

The ABC strives for equity and diversity in the workplace, and to promote a culture of opportunity. Through its services the ABC seeks to represent, connect and engage with all of the Australian community. In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disabilities and LGBTIQ+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.

For more information on inclusive employee networks within the ABC please refer to ABC LinkedIn and Life Page