Job no: 504909 Work type: Contract Full Time Location: Sydney Categories: Leadership, Journalism/Content Making, Production/Content
Location: Ultimo
Executive level - salary commensurate with experience
Contract position for 4 years
The RoleAs Head of Children and Family, you'll lead the development, commissioning, and production of the ABC's Children's and Family programming slate.Reporting to the Director, Screen, you'll shape and deliver a forward-thinking, audience-first strategy for ABC TV's Children's and Family content. You'll foster a culture of creativity, innovation, and quality storytelling that resonates with audiences across Australia.Key to your success will be cultivating strong creative partnerships with the local and international independent production community. You'll manage content budgets and allocate resources to deliver distinctive, high-quality programming-on time and within scope.As a senior leader, you'll also play a key role in championing the ABC's values-Aim High, Think Differently, Take Ownership, and Deliver Together-while mentoring and inspiring a high-performing team.Position Description:About YouYou're a seasoned content leader with a deep understanding of children's and family programming across multiple genres and formats. You bring a proven track record in commissioning, developing, and producing original content that engages, entertains, and informs.Your strengths lie in your ability to work creatively with ideas, concepts, and scripts-driving projects from inception to screen with editorial confidence and creative vision. You've successfully influenced development processes and outcomes at a senior level, and bring a strong editorial instinct paired with commercial and strategic nous.An empowering leader and trusted collaborator, you have extensive experience managing and developing high-performing teams. You excel in stakeholder engagement and bring finely tuned communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills-within both internal teams and the broader creative and production sectors, locally and internationally.Your industry knowledge and strong network of creative and business partners ensure you can guide and shape ABC's Children and Family slate for today's audiences-and those of tomorrow.More info:In line with our focus on diversity and inclusion, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTQIA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.To request recruitment and selection information in alternate formats, request adjustments, or if you have accessibility requirements please contactIf you want to know more, please contact Michelle Challans, Recruitment Lead, Screen and Audio viaWe are unable to accept email applications, please ensure that you submit your application via the online portal.We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.Applications Close: 11:55 pm, Thursday 4 September Advertised: 14 Aug 2025 12:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time Applications close: 04 Sep 2025 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
