Job Description

Position Title: Host (On-Site)
Status of Employment: Temporary Long-Term (Fixed Term)
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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: 2025-07-11 11:59 PM
This role requires full time on site presence and is based in Yellowknife.
This is a full time temporary position that ends on approximately January 23, 2027.
Please note the work schedule is from 5:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., Monday to Friday.
We are seeking a dynamic host for the morning radio show The Trailbreaker, broadcast live from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. on weekdays across the Northwest Territories and parts of Nunavut.
You are insatiably curious, a natural storyteller with a passion for drawing information, stories and accountability out of interview subjects every day. You are passionate about the Northwest Territories, are deeply familiar with its diverse population and have a strong desire to give listeners knowledge and insight to understand the news.
You bring curiosity but also something more: a demonstrated openness to diverse perspectives and ideas. You understand how to create strong radio programming.
You are enthusiastic about experimenting with talk formats and innovative story treatments. You are an agenda setter, starting and contributing to the important conversations facing your audience through your own pitches and storytelling.
You will play a key role in helping us connect with, and grow, new audiences through the range of stories and perspectives presented on the program and through regular outreach and public events in the Northwest Territories. You are enthusiastic about taking the show out of the studio, travelling to the territory's diverse communities, and telling the stories of its people.
You live and promote the values of an inclusive and respectful work culture. As one of the team leaders, you demonstrate a positive attitude with colleagues and are always looking for creative solutions to challenges.
Main responsibilities:
- Help plan, conceive and organize the program or program segments.
- Help choose what national and international stories provided by CBC's syndication service will appeal to our audience, and decide where in the show's line-up they fit.
- Interact naturally and off-the-cuff with program participants such as guests, reporters, experts and members of the audience.
- Conduct scripted or unscripted interviews on a wide variety of current events.
- Follow current events and maintain your expertise.
- Represent the CBC and The Trailbreaker in a number of forums. Participate in public relations or community outreach activities to promote The Trailbreaker and/or the CBC, such as emceeing or hosting events.
- Assume production responsibility for the program or program segments.
- Pitch ideas, suggest and line up interviewees, prepare background notes and questions, and conduct interviews on or off air; provide narration and linking continuity between program segments.
- Choose music that will speak to our audience.
Qualifications
What you bring:
- Exemplary journalistic skills, including interviewing, storytelling and critical thinking.
- Knowledge of legal and ethical issues related to journalism including CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices (JSP).
- Excellent general knowledge and understanding about territorial and civic politics, geography, history and current issues related to the North, as well as national and international affairs.
-- Wide range of genuine interests, knowledge and insight, reflecting curiosity in many current affairs topics, and an ability to make them relevant to existing and new audiences.
- Engaging, curious, spontaneous and authentic on-air personality.
- Widely read, knowledgeable and nuanced thinker.
- Ability to function independently and cooperatively in a small team setting while collaborating with other teams and units within CBC/Radio-Canada.
- Openness to diverse perspectives, ideas and opinions.
- Ability to work effectively under deadline pressure.
- Genuinely loves public outreach and is an enthusiastic ambassador of public broadcasting and the program.
- Technical skills, including field recording and audio editing.
- Strong editing and writing skills, ability to vet colleagues' scripts.
- Experience and knowledge of Indigenous languages would be an asset.
- University degree or equivalent in a related field is an asset.
- Five years of comparable radio hosting experience or relevant experience that demonstrates knowledge of the broadcast or a related industry.
- Possession of a valid driver's license
We want to hear what you sound like! Please include a link to samples of your on-air work in your cover letter.
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 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 .
You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our . All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on . 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: 5002 Forrest Drive, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, X1A 2A9
Number of Openings: 1
Work Schedule: Full time