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Director of Production and Media Services (E)
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24 May 2026 (30+ days ago)
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21 August 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) is Irelands national publicservice media organisation. A leader in Irish media RTÉ provides comprehensive costeffective freetoair services across television radio and digital platforms to audiences in Ireland and internationally. As the countrys largest media organisation and the largest producer and commissioner of original programming and journalism RTÉ has a broad publicservice remit to serve all audiences with a wide breadth of highquality content.
RTÉ is currently delivering an ambitious fiveyear transformation programme New Direction. This programme is focused on reshaping how the organisation operates modernising production and support models strengthening governance and restoring longterm sustainability while continuing to deliver compelling content that resonates with audiences.
As part of RTÉs transformation programme the organisation is seeking to appoint a Director of Production and Media Services a key operational leadership role at the heart of delivering change across Production and Media Services.
The Role
Reporting to the Director General and attending Leadership Team meetings the Director of Production and Media Services will:
Key responsibilities include:
The Individual
RTÉ welcome applications from candidates who demonstrate:
Candidates for this role will be sourced through both an advertised and executive search process.
This role is being offered on three-year fixed term appointment and thesalary range is 150000 to 160000gross per annum.
For further information and for details of how to apply please see date: 5pm Friday 12th June 2026
CuirfearfáilteroimhiarrataisódhaoinegobhfuildearcadhdearfachacuileithnaGaeilge. Applications are welcome from people who have a positive outlook to Irish.
Diversity and Inclusion are at the heart of what RTÉ does both on-airand behind the scenes. They are committed to building a more inclusive environment and tackling under-representation while embedding inclusion at every stage of the employee journey.
RTÉwelcomes applications from people with diverse backgrounds without regard to gender sexual orientation gender identity age social experience race and ethnicity disability civil and family status religiousbeliefand membership of the Traveller Community.
We are eager to provide reasonable accommodations for potential and existing employees with any kind of disability. Should you wish to request an accommodation for your interview we encourage you to let us know when you apply.
RTÉ is currently delivering an ambitious fiveyear transformation programme New Direction. This programme is focused on reshaping how the organisation operates modernising production and support models strengthening governance and restoring longterm sustainability while continuing to deliver compelling content that resonates with audiences.
As part of RTÉs transformation programme the organisation is seeking to appoint a Director of Production and Media Services a key operational leadership role at the heart of delivering change across Production and Media Services.
The Role
Reporting to the Director General and attending Leadership Team meetings the Director of Production and Media Services will:
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading a core pillar of RTÉs transformation providing strategic oversight of production and media services in a large unionised and highly interdependent environment.
- Setting clear direction and performance frameworks enabling strong senior managers to deliver daytoday operational excellence.
- Operating confidently within complex industrial relations structures working constructively with the Unions to support sustainable change.
- Acting as a senior operational voice at executive level contributing to strategy and transformation while aligning services to content and audience needs.
The Individual
RTÉ welcome applications from candidates who demonstrate:
- Seniorlevel operational leadership experience within a large complex and unionised organisation.
- Proven experience leading through matrix structures and managing interdependencies across complex organisational systems.
- A strong track record of delivering sustained transformation and change particularly where credibility fairness and engagement are critical to success.
- High emotional intelligence with the ability to get the best from experienced professional teams.
- The judgement presence and confidence to operate as a strong and credible operational voice at executive level.
- Demonstrable excellence in negotiation and influencing with the credibility and judgement to build consensus and progress change across complex unionised and multistakeholder environments.
- Direct media experience is welcome but not essential.
Candidates for this role will be sourced through both an advertised and executive search process.
This role is being offered on three-year fixed term appointment and thesalary range is 150000 to 160000gross per annum.
For further information and for details of how to apply please see date: 5pm Friday 12th June 2026
CuirfearfáilteroimhiarrataisódhaoinegobhfuildearcadhdearfachacuileithnaGaeilge. Applications are welcome from people who have a positive outlook to Irish.
Diversity and Inclusion are at the heart of what RTÉ does both on-airand behind the scenes. They are committed to building a more inclusive environment and tackling under-representation while embedding inclusion at every stage of the employee journey.
RTÉwelcomes applications from people with diverse backgrounds without regard to gender sexual orientation gender identity age social experience race and ethnicity disability civil and family status religiousbeliefand membership of the Traveller Community.
We are eager to provide reasonable accommodations for potential and existing employees with any kind of disability. Should you wish to request an accommodation for your interview we encourage you to let us know when you apply.
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