Director of Promotion

KATU (ABC) and KUNP (Univision) in Portland, OR has a great career opportunity for a Director of Promotions to join our senior leadership team. This position will lead the stations’ bilingual, multi-platform marketing, promotional and commercial production efforts in collaboration with other department heads. The successful candidate should be an outstanding promotions writer, editor, producer and creative self-starter who is able to take a concept through every stage of production, while managing people and strict deadlines. A minimum of seven years of promotion and/or commercial production experience is necessary.

Responsibilities will include:

1. Cultivate and support a passionate and driven creative team that has the strong desire to always design and execute best in class work.
2. Manage the process around production of daily syndicated and news topical promos in collaboration with news leadership and creative services
3. Maintain continuity of graphic design for on-air promotional spots and station packaging elements
4. Provide overall creative leadership of on-air promotion and branding with the goals of maintaining and improving local ratings, revenue, community impact and brand awareness
5. Collaborate with sales leadership on campaign execution that fulfill client needs, drive results and increase performance on non-traditional and new business revenue
6. Design and develop promotional campaigns ranging from proof of performance to image and sweeps campaigns
7. Assist in the creation of contests/promotions to support relationships with other media partners
8. Create radio, cable, and digital promotions for outside media

Qualifications:

1. A formal education equivalent of a B.S. degree in Broadcast Communications, Journalism, Marketing or related field is required
2. Minimum seven years relevant experience in television promotion/commercial production
3. Extensive knowledge of television production techniques, shooting, and computer graphics, including Avid editing, Photoshop, and Aftereffects
4. Strong communication skills, comfortable interacting with Sales, News, Creative Services and Digital Departments
5. Excellent verbal, written and organizational skills are a must

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