Senior TV Producer – Bloomberg Bahrain recruitment

The Role
Bloomberg TV is looking for an Senior Television Producer to join its television team in Bahrain. The successful candidate will be ideally fluent in both English and Arabic.

The producer will be able to demonstrate a knowledge of and enthusiasm for financial, markets, and companies news, plus show familiarity with the Gulf region (through work experience or extended travel), its economy and politics. The candidate must be able to make quick decisions in a real-time news environment and thrive under pressure, combined with the ability to explain complex material in simple terms.

The candidate will intially spend time working in the London bureau of Bloomberg TV and will then transfer to Bahrain, to work on broadcast production of finance, markets and companies news within TV network in which Bloomberg TV is a partner.

Qualifications:
-Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
-Previous experience in television production
-Fluent in Arabic and in English
-Additional GCC dialects desirable
-Experience in financial journalism is desirable
-Experience working in a real-time news environment
-Flexibility with hours and travel
-Ability to train in London before relocation to Bahrain

The Company
Bloomberg is the world's most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® 24-hour network delivers smart television to more than 240 million homes. BLOOMBERG RADIO® services broadcast via SIRIUS XM Radio and 1worldspaceTM satellite radio globally and on WBBR 1130AM in New York. The award-winning monthly BLOOMBERG MARKETS® magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine and the BLOOMBERG.COM® financial news and information Web site provide news and insight to businesses and investors.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other classification protected by law.