Senior Producer (Politics) - Studio

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Senior Producer (Politics)

£Competitive plus company benefits

If you fancy working as a senior producer, making original content for broadcast across some of our fantastic national brands and standalone YouTube channels, then read on!

Working from our Canary Wharf office, you'll take the lead in creating premium content that engages audiences, drives growth, and ensures our national brands continue to innovate. As one of our senior producers, you’ll play a key part in the team, and manage a small team of junior producers too.

Reach Studio launched last year and is a unique blend of editorial and commercial talent, serving multimedia content to both our audiences and advertising partners. Our dynamic team is made up of highly skilled video producers, videographers, editors, designers and strategists. Reach Studio has already launched a variety of content and podcasts including our branded content Let’s Start Talking podcast, Mirror Gaming socials and an exclusive interview with Virgil van Dijk. From developing existing vodcasts to producing new video series’ and formats that our audiences will love, we want you to join us for what's next.

This is a Monday - Friday London-based role with a requirement to work from the Canary Wharf offices 3 days per week.

What will the role involve?

In this role, you'll develop, produce, and direct short and longform original video and podcast series for YouTube and social platforms. As well as reacting to breaking news and politics stories, with video filmed out of our in-house production studio, you will develop and produce original ideas that could be shot across the UK.

You’ll guide junior producers, ensuring best practices and top-quality output across the team. You'll also be responsible for casting and managing talent with a strong duty of care, as well as pitching and developing new formats for live streams, podcasts, social videos, shortform series’ and longform features.

We’re looking for a true ideas generator—someone who thrives in creative development sessions and collaborates with senior editorial teams. You’ll be a content specialist, understanding different formats and production constraints, while effectively briefing designers, editors, and talent to bring your vision to life.

Collaboration is key—you’ll work closely with other senior producers and strategists based in London. You’ll champion diversity and inclusion, ensuring our content reflects the values of our audience.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an established producer, with a background in factual, news and politics content making. We have multiple daily news and political vodcasts in the pipeline so we need a politics buff who can flip between this style of show and our more original style slate.

You are experienced in writing up, pitching and developing successful ideas, along with a ‘can-do’ attitude that thrives under pressure in fast-paced environments like news.

Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail are a must, as is the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team. If you're brilliant at content development, casting, scripting and directing —and know how to sell a great story to wider teams —we want you on board!

What can we offer you?

We are offering a competitive salary and benefits including;

• Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%
• 25 days’ holiday per year when you join. After three, five and ten years’ service with Reach, you’ll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Giving back day - an additional day’s leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
• Enhanced family leave - including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you’ll be eligible after just six months’ employment
• Private Healthcare Cash Plan - free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
• As one of the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers everyone’s invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
• Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 employee assistance programme (EAP) for you and your nearest and dearest
• Awesome career opportunities - you’ll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
• We are also a member of the 30% Club, a global campaign aimed at increasing gender diversity at board and senior management levels

Reach plc believes diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Writing/Editing
• Industries
• Book and Periodical Publishing