Creative Director - Broadcasting

Job description / Role

Established Media and Entertainment Company with a presence in Central Asia to the Middle East are currently recruiting a Creative Director to manage the Afghanistan market.

Job Description:
The Creative Director is responsible for creatively supervising local Creative teams in close cooperation with local seniors, while giving a final creative quality check on priority project quality check level (gfx, edit, sound).

- Represent Creative Services resources on all projects.
- Proactively communicate with Creative HQ/General Manager on projects, strategies, requirements priorities.
- Proactively communicate with department leaders on projects and cooperation.
- Creatively leads project development processes. Supervise projects.
- Develops project strategies and campaign plans.
- Seeking synergy between projects and platforms. Support integrated platform communication.
- Actively participate in higher-level goals breakdown to the production level.
- Actively develop and supervise all channels brands communication.
- Proactively improve social and new media promo workflow in close cooperation with the marketing team.
- Motivate, train, evaluate and mentor Creative Team.
- Work together with Traffic manager (resource control) on projects as Creative Controller.
- Supervise on-air workflows.
- Manage Creative Services department. Actively train, evaluate and mentor Creative Team.
- Develop Creative Services structure.
- Develop workflows, seeking for synergy, efficiency. Go for on time delivery.
- Input to and contribute to the creative planning process.
- Input to and contribute the multi-platform project planning.
- Input to and contribute to the planning of the Creative Teams long and short term goals and routine schedule.
- Liaise/negotiate with General Manager on requests, general daily managing issues.
- Liaise/communicate with Head of Creative Services on strategic, organizational issues, priority projects, evaluation, mentoring etc.

Requirements

- 5 + years of professional Broadcast Creative experience.
- Bachelors degree in relevant subject from a reputable institution.
- Excellent communication skills in English along with good interpersonal skills. Arabic language skills will be an advantage.
- Experience with Broadcast creative teams. Organized creative!
- Organized thinking with strong creative skill set. Deep understanding of creative workflow.
- Hard-working, dependable, takes initiative and is completely dedicated.
- Ability to manage stressful situations
- Resourceful
- On time delivery sensitive
- Multi-tasker: ability to manage multiple tasks productively and prioritize accordingly.
- Ability to respond under rapid and/or constantly changing priorities and deadlines with frequent interruptions.
- Ability to carry-out complex oral and written instructions in an excellent manner.
- The ideal candidate for this unique position would be: highly intelligent and be able to provide timely responses and execution for any and all issues.

This is n exciting opportunity to join an established Media company with a focus on emerging markets.

About the Company

Inspire Selection is an award winning recruitment agency, headquartered in Dubai which recruits across the Middle East region. We employ highly knowledgeable, professional consultants who are experts in connecting the right people with the right opportunities. Our reputation has been built upon our honesty, integrity and our ability to source candidates of the highest calibre right across our specialist sectors. As a result, we are recruitment partners to a wide spectrum of organisations - from leading blue chip companies to smaller, local businesses. Sectors we cover include HR, Administration, Finance & Accounting, Legal, Sales & Marketing including Digital Marketing, IT, Oil/Gas/Energy, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Higher Education.