Manager, Programming

Position Title:

Manager, Programming

Status of Employment:

Permanent

Position Language Requirement:

English

Language Skills:

English (First Official Language), English (Reading), English (Speaking), English (Writing)

Work at CBC/Radio-Canada

At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance. 
 
Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.

Unposting Date:

2026-10-20 11:59 PM

Program Manager

This is a permanent full-time role, based in Regina.

CBC Saskatchewan is looking for a program manager to help lead CBC Saskatchewan at a pivotal time in the province’s history. You will report to the Director, Journalism and work alongside CBC Saskatchewan’s leadership team to execute the station’s editorial vision on our programs.

As the program manager, you will lead all programming on video, audio and digital platforms. You will be a key point person, along with the Managing Editor, in JSP guidance and programming direction. You will work closely with our communications team to ensure program and community outreach align.

You will be a champion of audience growth. You will bring audience metrics and data to our program teams. And you will work relentlessly to help connect our storytelling with the community. 

You will work with a great team, and will be a key supporter of its ongoing development.

You will be a great leader, and an even better teammate.

Main responsibilities:

• Oversee CBC Saskatchewan programming
• Work within the leadership team to execute an editorial vision across CBC digital, radio, and visuals that balances immediate breaking news with enterprise storytelling.
• Ensure our storytelling adheres to CBC’s journalistic standards and practices, ensuring all content is fair, balanced, and accurate. 
• Ensure our coverage reflects the true diversity of Saskatchewan, building trust with new audiences through inclusive storytelling.
• Oversees the station’s community outreach strategy
• Ensure program content is strategically leveraged, adapted, and shared across CBC Saskatchewan’s digital and television platforms to maximize impact.

• Drive the CBC Saskatchewan hiring strategy.
• Oversee the onboarding of new editorial staff, ensuring deep familiarity with CBC’s Journalistic Policy, technical tools, and local newsroom culture.
• Oversee performance management of all programs, including mentorship and training and development.

• Act as the primary local authority on CBC’s Journalistic Standards and Practices (JSP), when Managing Editor is unavailable, ensuring all stories meet the core tenets of accuracy, fairness, balance, and integrity.
• Provide real-time counsel on complex journalistic questions, including legal risks (defamation, publication bans), ethical dilemmas, and sensitive interviews.
• Serve as the final escalation point in the newsroom for breaking, highly sensitive, or controversial local stories, coordinating with CBC Legal and network leadership when necessary.
• Help navigate audience complaints or corrections transparently, upholding CBC’s accountability to the public

Experience Required

• Minimum of 10 years' related experience, including experience leading in a newsroom 
• A track record of guiding complex journalistic decision making
• Experience managing staff and resources within budgetary constraints
• Experience leading the application of journalistic standards and practices in a daily newsroom setting
• An ongoing interest in and understanding of media trends as they apply to a multiplatform newsroom
• Experience in setting clear objectives and goals, and then to deliver on them 
• Proven ability to make decisions rapidly and frequently within tight deadlines  

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
 

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next

step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:  

• A mandatory Criminal record check. 

• Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
 
You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.

Primary Location:

2440 Broad Street, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4P 3Z4

Number of Openings:

1

Work Schedule:

Full time