ACT - Editor In Chief (10-18 yrs)

About Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd

ACT (Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd.) was born out of a vision to become the most admired in-home entertainment, education, and interactive services provider in India. Today, we are closer than ever to realizing it. Based in Bangalore, we serve a number of cities and towns in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Delhi. We are one of the country's most renowned cable and broadband company, bringing state-of the art services to more than 2 million happy homes ( Fibernet, Digital TV, HDTV). We offer broadband on optic fiber and our Fiber-To-The-Home technology can carry vast amount of information at speeds up to 1 Gbps. We are currently the 3rd largest ISP In the wired broadband category, and the largest non-telco ISP in the country.

Role Name: Editor in Chief - ACT News

Location: Vijayawada/Nellore

Context

ACT News is one of the channels part of our network started two years back to bring in the best of news across domains to our subscribers in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Today, as we work towards becoming a leader in the video business our in-house channels have got an important role to play more than ever. As Editor-In Chief, incumbent is expected the channel in all the fronts, right from setting up the strategic objectives to vetting the news to managing the team. Incumbent will work towards improving the quality of content, production values, viewership among others.

Job Responsibilities:

- Overall responsibility for the editorial strategy of the ACT News Channel

- Work closely with the leadership team to devise the annual plan for the channel

- Provide roadmap to the teams on the various programs being telecasted

- Generate new ideas and encourage team to come up fresh ideas to improve the quality of the content and viewership

- Review and signoff on the content for the various programs

- Build and maintain relationships with journalists community

- Manage the team of journalists / editors

Key Personal Attributes:

- Ability to lead diverse teams with diverse culture

- Passionate about content across categories (politics, business, sports, entertainment, tech)

- Attitude to run the function with an hands on approach

- Develop, Institute and foster process driven culture

- Attention to detail

- Outstanding in your ability to use language and grammar well, without being verbose

- Ability to convert unstructured environment into an organized eco system

- Self-starter and self-motivated to thrive in a fast paced environment

- Positive attitude; strong team player; highly passionate

Educational & Experience requirements:

- 10 -18 years of experience with a track record/qualifications that demonstrates excellent language skills, and a passion for content and media.

- Must have proficiency in Telegu (Reading and Writing).