Manager, Digital Media Production

Position Title: Manager, Digital Media Production

Employment Type:   Full-Time Staff | Non-Union

Annual Salary Range: $85,000.00 - $95,000.00

Division:                                  Education

Location:                          2180 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON

TVO Media Education Group (TVO) is devoted to inspiring learning that changes lives and enriches communities. We are an internationally recognized digital learning organization that strives to engage, inform, and educate Ontarians of all ages.

Who we are

We are an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Education and a registered charity that contributes to learning, civic engagement, and public service media across Ontario. We provide free, trusted, and accessible educational content that can support Ontarians of all ages, regardless of background, location, or circumstance. To fulfill our mandate, TVO delivers curriculum-connected resources through TVO Learn and TVOkids, offers Ontario’s largest online high school through TVO ILC, and produces journalism, documentaries, current affairs programming, and podcasts with TVO Today that help Ontarians understand the issues shaping their communities.

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a Manager, Digital Media Production who can lead people with clarity and confidence, elevate creative quality, and oversee the development and delivery of high-impact educational content across video, audio, and emerging digital formats.

You will lead a team of Digital Media Producers responsible for creating content that supports classroom learning, lifelong learning, and public engagement across multiple platforms.

Success in this role requires someone who can balance creativity with execution, provide clear direction and actionable feedback, set high standards, and help producers continually strengthen their craft.

You will be accountable for both team performance and content impact: leading a strong, well-supported production team while ensuring its work is audience-focused, strategically aligned, accessible, and delivered with excellence.

How you will make an impact

Team Leadership and Operations

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Digital Media Producers through clear priorities, feedback, and professional development.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement.
• Establish and optimize workflows, timelines, and production processes that support efficient, scalable content creation.
• Lead multiple concurrent streams of work, balancing quality, timelines, resources, stakeholder needs, and competing priorities.
• Continuously improve team performance, tools, and workflows, including the responsible adoption of AI and emerging technologies.

Creative Leadership and Content Strategy

• Provide creative direction throughout the content lifecycle, helping producers strengthen storytelling, structure, pacing, and platform fit.
• Shape compelling, audience-focused content for TVO Learn, online courses, YouTube, and emerging platforms.
• Ensure content aligns with TVO's brand standards, editorial principles, accessibility requirements, and organizational goals.
• Champion innovation in storytelling formats, production approaches, and audience engagement.

Execution, Quality and Impact

• Oversee end-to-end content production from concept through publication and distribution.
• Maintain a high standard for storytelling, production quality, educational value, editorial integrity, and accessibility.
• Use analytics and audience insights to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
• Support the development of scalable, reusable content assets that maximize value across platforms.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Innovation

• Build strong working relationships across Education, Media, Product, Marketing, Copyright, and other teams to support shared planning, efficient production, and consistent audience experience.
• Identify opportunities for shared planning, co-creation, and multi-platform storytelling, including ways to adapt strong ideas across educational, editorial, promotional, and social content contexts.
• Translate organizational priorities into clear and actionable production plans.

What You Bring

This role is best suited to a leader who enjoys developing people as much as developing content, and who can bring structure, judgment, and momentum to creative production work.

Education and Experience

• Post-secondary education in communications, journalism, media production, education, digital media, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, timelines, stakeholders, and production priorities in a fast-paced environment.

People Leadership

• Experience leading and developing creative, content, or production teams in fast-paced environments, with a demonstrated ability to coach individuals, strengthen performance, and build team capability over time.
• Proven ability to set clear expectations, provide constructive and timely feedback, address performance concerns, and support professional growth.
• Confident decision-maker who can balance creative ambition, audience needs, quality standards, and operational realities.

Content and Production Expertise

• Significant experience in digital content production, media production, educational content, or related fields, with demonstrated success leading content from concept through production, publication, and optimization.
• Strong understanding of digital storytelling, audience engagement, content strategy, and platform best practices.
• Experience using responsible AI and emerging technologies responsibly to improve content workflows, accelerate production where appropriate, and increase efficiency while maintaining editorial quality, accuracy, and accessibility.
• Ability to evaluate new tools and approaches while maintaining editorial quality, accuracy, and integrity.
• Curiosity about evolving content technologies and a commitment to continuous learning.
• Experience creating content for educational, public media, mission-driven, or knowledge-focused audiences is considered an asset.

Collaboration and Communication

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to build alignment across cross-functional teams and navigate competing priorities.
• Skilled at influencing decisions, facilitating collaboration, and creating clarity in complex environments.

Mindset

• Passion for content, storytelling, education, and public media.
• Highly organized, proactive, and solutions-oriented.
• Adaptable and energized by change and continuous improvement.
• Committed to accessibility, inclusion, and lifelong learning.

What Success in This Role Looks Like

• A high-performing team that has clear priorities, strong feedback practices, and the support needed to produce exceptional digital content.
• Content that delivers measurable audience and learner impact through engagement, usefulness, accessibility, and alignment with TVO's educational and public-service mandate.
• Efficient and scalable production workflows.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration that advances TVO's goals.

What we offer

Working at TVO, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work that impacts millions of Ontarians. You’ll belong to a diverse, tight-knit community of talented colleagues who share a passion for education. With learning at the centre of everything we do, we invest in developing our people and promoting a culture of continuous learning. You might even get to meet Polkaroo!

We hope you’ll consider joining us. 

Applications will be accepted until 4:00pm on November 6, 2026.

Not sure you have everything we’re asking for, but know you can make a big impact? We encourage you to apply for consideration.

Please Note:

We are hiring for an existing vacancy on our team and expect to move forward with screening and interviewing candidates shortly after the posting closes. OR We are building a talent pool for future vacancies and will contact candidates as opportunities arise.

The posted salary range reflects the target hiring range for the position. Final compensation will be determined based on a number of factors including qualifications, relevant experience, and internal equity. 

TVO does not use artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision‑making tools to screen, assess, or select candidates. All applications are reviewed by the hiring team.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process (e.g., including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms). If you are seeking accommodations during the application or interview process, please advise us as soon as possible so that appropriate arrangements can be made by sending your request to [email protected].