Promotion Director

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Promotions Director

The Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc. (MBN) is seeking a Promotions and Creative Productions Director to lead and develop the creative production team and processes to produce promotions, marketing campaigns, fillers, presentations, corporate films, and other high quality creative visual and audio solutions that creates competitive advantage for the network.

Duties/ Responsibilities: (Essential Functions: Duties and responsibilities noted with bullets are considered to be the essential functions of the job).     

• Cultivates a highly innovative and positive environment to drive the promotions and creative productions team towards success. 
• Demonstrates excellence in generating innovative ideas and actively implementing cutting-edge trends and techniques in promotions, advertising, and creative productions.
• Oversees end-to-end workflow, ensuring seamless execution of creative content creation initiatives.
• Collaborate with various departments and the marketing team at MBN to successfully accomplish goals and targets.
• Finds, creates, and establishes promotional and advertising opportunities and ideas, needs, and strategies in relation to important events, targeted audience, and competition
• Demonstrates meticulous attention to detail in verifying the editorial accuracy and adherence to brand mission statement and guidelines for all promotional and creative content spots and messages.
• Executes end-to-end production of promotional campaigns, including scriptwriting, directing, editing, and overall production.
• Trains and provides creative guidance for seamless processes spanning from idea conception to successful implementation and timely delivery.
• Proactively oversees the final promotions and creative content output to meticulously uphold established quality benchmarks and standards.
• Engages in a proactive approach to maintain up-to-date knowledge of national and international news, current affairs, and noteworthy news events.
• Maintains meticulous record-keeping of process details, workflows, client briefs, requests, and project deliveries.
• Spearheads and oversees the promotions and creative productions team, effectively managing assignments, shifts, schedules, and clients.
• Cultivates and maintains seamless and professional communication channels with key MBN personnel.
  

Demonstrated proficiency & required skills:   

• Possess a bachelor’s degree in media encompassing fields like Visual Communication, Multimedia, Mass Communication, Media, Film Studies, and Design, or any equivalent and pertinent education.
• Possess a track record of over 10 years in a relevant industry, showcasing exemplary expertise and leadership capabilities.
• Demonstrates exceptional creativity in generating innovative and unconventional promotional concepts and strategies.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing and executing successful advertising campaigns, employing effective marketing techniques, and delivering creative visual solutions.
• Demonstrated expertise in employing various software like Adobe CC to achieve outstanding visual designs.
• Demonstrates exceptional fluency in verbal and written communication in English and Arabic.
• Demonstrates exceptional proficiency in communication, presentation, and leadership abilities.
• Proficient in team and time management, excelling in multitasking, displaying flexibility, taking ownership, embracing new responsibilities, and demonstrating self-motivation and independence.
• Demonstrated expertise in staying updated with current digital, TV, radio, and media trends.
• Exemplified capability to generate and nurture a positive, vibrant, and innovative work culture.
• Showcases an outstanding portfolio of past projects to highlight artistic abilities and expertise.
  
• Cultivates and maintains seamless and professional communication channels with key MBN personnel.

MBN is a non-profit grantee of the federal government that directly communicates with the people of the Middle East and North Africa through television, radio, and digital media.  MBN’s mission is to expand the spectrum of ideas, opinions, and perspectives available in the media of the Middle East and North Africa; provide objective, accurate, and relevant news and information; and, accurately represent America, Americans, and American policies.  Through its multimedia broadcasts, MBN seeks to inform, engage, and connect with the regions’ people in support of universal freedoms.

MBN is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.

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