About the Role
Lead content strategy and operations across various platforms, including print, digital, video, radio, and social media. The role involves overseeing editorial and production teams, strengthening brand identity, growing audiences, and ensuring that content is credible, engaging, timely, and commercially sustainable in both English and Arabic.
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Key Responsibilities
Content Strategy and Leadership
- Develop an integrated content strategy, setting priorities, standards, targets, budgets, and resource plans.
- Lead department heads and promote collaboration while maintaining each brand’s distinct identity.
Editorial Oversight
- Oversee print and digital content, ensuring accuracy, fairness, originality, and timely publication.
- Guide sensitive coverage and manage approvals, corrections, complaints, and editorial risks across English and Arabic content.
Video Production
- Set video strategy and oversee production priorities, schedules, budgets, and quality.
- Align video content with audience needs and coordinate teams across departments.
Radio Programming
- Oversee programmer schedules and the quality of news, interviews, and audience-focused shows.
- Connect radio content with editorial, digital, podcast, and social media coverage.
Digital and Social Media
- Lead publishing across websites, digital products, and social platforms.
- Use audience data to improve reach and engagement, managing misinformation and reputational issues.
People, Operations, and Commercial Collaboration
- Manage workflows, budgets, staffing, training, and performance across departments.
- Support sponsorship and branded content while protecting editorial independence and ensuring compliance.
Requirements
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Media, Communications, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 10 years of relevant media experience, including 5 years in a senior editorial or content leadership role.
- Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary teams across editorial, digital, video, broadcast, or social media.
- Strong understanding of Oman and the wider regional media landscape.
- Excellent editorial judgment, leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- Experience managing budgets, production workflows, audience analytics, and digital growth.
- Strong English proficiency; Arabic proficiency is highly desirable.
Note: We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates who are shortlisted will be contacted.
