Senior planning producer – Good Morning Britain

Salary: depending on experience

Closing date: 27th May at midnight

Term: 12-month fixed term contract

Do you have a thorough understanding of what makes a great Good Morning Britain story?

We are looking for a Senior Planning Producer to join our busy team.

Responsibilities

• Your knowledge of news and key events will enable you to plan news coverage of diary stories and large planned news events, arranging shoots, lives and securing guests.
• You will also need to source and secure great human interest stories 

• You will be responsible for the advance planning of content for the all news output on Good Morning Britain

• You will identify stories to cover and plan and organise how to cover them in liaison with the Head of Planning

• And you will be confident in leading a team of producers and researchers to generate news and programme content

Knowledge, skills, experience

• You will be a qualified journalist
• Ideally with a track-record of working in a planning role for a news broadcaster
• With a comprehensive knowledge of and interest in news and news magazine programming, you will have the ability to demonstrate strong editorial judgement, especially when reacting under time constraints
• You will have excellent communication skills and be able to build rapport easily
• Working knowledge of media law and Ofcom compliance issues is also important

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.