Ongoing Recruitment at BBC World Service 13th June, 2017

The BBC, is the leading international broadcaster in Africa reaching a weekly audience of more than 100 million on Radio, TV, Digital (language sites and bbcafrica.com), Mobile and Social Media. We broadcast to Africa in English, Hausa, Somali, French, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Kiswahili & Arabic. We are committed to broadcasting to and from the continent in a style that meets the demands of our growing audience and as well as our language services, our presence in the region is also defined by our bureaux, special correspondents and bilingual reporters. 


We are recruiting to fill the position below:






Job Title: Broadcast Journalist (Video), BBC Igbo

Job Reference: BBC/TP/788768/22133
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Business Unit News: W2020
Job Category : Journalism
Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time

Job Introduction

• The BBC World Service is embarking on an exciting journey with unprecedented investment in digital content for Africa and your role will be critical to us in meeting our ambitions.
• At the BBC, we believe our mission is to inform, educate and connect the audiences from Africa to the rest of the world.
• BBC Igbo digital service aims to deliver our journalism in a lively and engaging fashion, with a focus on interactivity and the promotion of content on social media and across all platforms.
• As one of our video journalist you’ll have a crucial role in leading our engagement with the audience. By joining BBC Igbo, you’ll be a part of the new team including Yoruba and PIdgin, will serve our audiences in Nigeria and West Africa.
• They will be based in Lagos, working alongside our operation in Abuja from where the BBC currently produces its Hausa service output. There is a strong emphasis on reaching and connecting with young audiences.

Role Responsibilities

• Work with other members of the Igbo and Nigeria team, and the wider BBC Africa newsroom, to identify and produce creative and innovative video news content.
• To originate innovative formats for BBC Igbo social media posts best suited for each social network, including Facebook and Instagram and optimize these formats using social analytics and then champion the use of successful formats across the team.
• Re-version BBC material with a mobile audience in mind.
• To create multimedia content for publication on social media and the BBC Igbo mobile audiences, as appropriate and to the required specification whilst maintaining professional journalistic standards of accuracy, impartiality and adhering to the BBC’s Editorial guidelines.
• Research, storyboard and produce stories.
• Create headlines and video teasers to promote our stories and reach to as wide an audience as possible.
•  To show visual creativity in the use of pictures and graphics to illustrate and explain fast-moving events and complex stories.

The Ideal Candidate

• A full command and up to date knowledge of written and spoken Igbo
• Experience of video production, editing and storytelling.
• Experience of using video editing software similar to Q-edit or FCPX.
• In depth understanding of digital and social platforms – the BBC’s and others – and the different ways audiences are consuming news in Africa
• A strong journalistic track record with knowledge of Africa and African affairs.
• Experience in social-first content production and audience engagement.
• Wide and up to date familiarity with the area/s to which the Service broadcasts including Africa , Nigeria and West African affairs and an in-depth understanding of the area/s history, politics, social issues and culture as well as the changing needs of the audience.
• An extensive knowledge of the media situation in the target area and the way it is developing.
• Must be able to demonstrate sense of visual awareness as well as technical aptitude.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety policies and practices.

Package Description

• Contract: Continuing
• Salary: Local Terms and Conditions Apply

How to Apply


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Job Title: Broadcast Journalist (Digital) 

Job Reference: BBC/TP/788768/22142
Location: Lagos
Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time
Department: Africa Hub
Start Date: November 2017
Reports to: Senior Broadcast Journalist Digital
Job Category: Journalism
Business Unit: News: W2020Role 

Context

• The BBC World Service is embarking on an exciting journey with unprecedented investment in digital content for Africa and your role will be critical to us in meeting our ambitions.
• The BBC will be launching a new digital innovation hub in Lagos with the ambition to develop digital journalism in Africa.
• Your role as Broadcast Journalist will play a key role in helping our content reach underserved audiences – such as younger, more female and more diverse demographics in Africa.
• We have an exciting opportunity to create new forms of digital storytelling and journalism that reaches 111 million people in Africa.
• As a Broadcast Journalist you will join a new multi-disciplinary digital team in Lagos made up of news gatherers , designers, software developers and social media specialists who will be working with journalists working across 12 language services (English, Amharic , Tigrinya, Afaan Oromo, Swahili, Somali, French, Great Lakes , Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa)

Job Purpose

• BBC Africa aims to make, explain and connect African and global stories by providing a unique insight into the main stories of the day in original formats.
• The African service digital offer consists of websites, mobile sites and social media with all services providing multimedia content in text, video, interactive and audio for radio, online, TV, mobile and social media platforms

Key Responsibilities

• To work as part of the editorial/production team in Lagos for the BBC Africa Digital Innovation Hub 
• The journalist is expected to have strong writing skills and proven understanding of African news, current affairs, social media and it’s advantageous if the candidate boasts a thematic specialism. 
• The journalist will be expected to originate, prepare and publish pages of multi-media news, background, analysis, features and video. 
• A key part of the job will be to work closely with colleagues from BBC Africa, who work in English and other languages, to ensure the best of their radio, TV, online and social content is made available to the African hub and wider BBC and make sure that content conforms to BBC editorial standards. 
• To produce and commission short-form and long-form digital content 
• To gather content for digital platforms from the field
• Contribute to the BBC News website’s Africa desk. The journalist will build on our existing African coverage, including the Africa Live page 
• To create digital video, write for our website and other social platforms and promote our content in an engaging format with the audience. 
• They will need to have talent and energy.
• They will be able to find imaginative and original ways to broaden our agenda and play a full part in discussing how best to cover the day’s news, both with colleagues from Online, BBC Africa and other BBC departments. 
• To work with graphic designers to produce creative and original graphics sequences which can be shared by other BBC departments 
• Writing and commissioning news stories, analysis and features on African issues as events dictate, using text, video and audio 
• Working closely with colleagues from BBC Africa to identify promising story ideas and content, and help adapt it for online audiences where appropriate 
• Thinking up original ways to tell stories, especially for existing and emerging digital platforms

Required Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• Proven text journalism writing and editing skills, using outstanding English
• Broad knowledge of and interest in African affairs 
• Ability to produce clean news stories, under the tightest of deadlines 
• Ability to produce original, richly-illustrated features which demonstrate a deep understanding of the issue 
• Ability to work within a team, and provide leadership to less experienced colleagues  Good understanding of social media and user generated content, and of different digital platforms and devices 
• Comprehensive knowledge of the BBC’s editorial policy and practice and of the law relating to broadcast and interactive journalism 
• Proven commitment to equality and diversity and the maintenance of health and safety standards

Competencies
(The term competency refers to the skills, knowledge and core behaviours required to perform a job, or an element of it, successfully. Qualifications usually measure outcomes or what is done, competencies measure how you do it. The interview questions are structured around the role’s core competencies):

• Editorial Judgement: Makes the right editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC’s distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage as well as those of the programme departments. 
• Creative thinking: Translates news and current affairs into high quality coverage through a detailed understanding of the requirements of the BBC News website and possession of the necessary writing, directing and reporting skills. 
• Managing relationships and team working: Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works cooperatively with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or competitively. 
• Subject Knowledge: Demonstrates an expanding knowledge of international news and current events in general and specific areas of expertise in particular, including language skills. Develops increasingly useful and exclusive sources of information.
•  Analytical Skills: Simplifies complex problems, processes or projects. Identifies causal relationships and constructs frameworks for problem-solving and/or development.  Planning and Organising: Thinks ahead in order to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues such as deadlines, staffing and resource requirements. 
• Decision Making: Is ready and able to take the initiative, originate action and be responsible for the consequences of decisions. 
• Influencing Others: Presents sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Draws from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change. 
• Communication: The ability to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information

Package Description

• Contract: Continuing
• Salary: Local Terms and Conditions Apply

How to Apply


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Job Title: Senior Broadcast Journalist (Digital) 
Job Reference: BBC/TP/788768/22144
Location: Lagos 
Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time
Job Category: Journalism
Business Unit: News: W2020 
Department: BBC Africa (Lagos Hub) 
Reports to: Digital Editor (London) 
Contract: Continuing 

Context

• Here the vision is simple – Lead a new ambitious African digital innovation team of multitalented journalists and content creators in Lagos
• The BBC World Service is embarking on an exciting journey with unprecedented investment in digital content for Africa and your role will be critical to us in meeting our ambitions. The BBC will be launching a new digital innovation hub in Lagos with the ambition to develop digital journalism in Africa.
• You’ll be expected to lead and inspire the new multi-disciplinary digital team in Lagos made up of news journalists, designers, software developers and social media specialists. This team will be working with journalists working across 12 African language services (English, Amharic , Tigrinya, Afan Afaan Oromo, Swahili, Somali, French, Great Lakes , Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa) to create content new forms of digital storytelling and journalism that reaches 111 million people in Africa with particular focus on underserved audiences – such as young and female

About the Team

• BBC Africa Innovation Hub is a production and development team responsible for creating high impact visual journalism. We’re building an agile, dynamic team to be at the forefront of crafting innovating ways of telling stories digitally for the African mobile audience.
• The team works with the newly formed television genres programmes, newsgathering, investigations team and language digital services to create data- driven stories, visual storytelling and pilot content that address the data challenges audiences are facing.
• This team has the remit to explore new innovative use of technologies, with an emphasis on social, mobile and youth audiences.
• The BBC Africa Innovation Hub aims to generate digital content that meets the BBC high editorial standards and showcase the continent’s best visual journalism.

About the Role

• You’ll be leading a team of visual journalists (developers, designers, journalists, visual artists, interactive journalists and women’s affairs journalists based in Lagos).
• You’re a visionary leader in the field of digital media and looking for a new challenge. We’re looking for an individual who has experience in working with multidisciplinary teams to build digital content and products. It’s highly desirable you come from a journalism background and can demonstrate your interest in journalism and storytelling.

Main Duties

• To work with the digital editor to fully scope the editorial portfolio for the team
• To be the on ground team lead working to briefs from the Digital Editor with the mandate to inspire and ensure the team is meeting our editorial standards
• To pitch in and contribute and create digital content
• You will be receiving and approving with the Digital Editor digital, commissions from daily news teams, planning ,TV, deployments editors Working with the Digital Editor you will be receiving and approving commissions from daily news teams, planning, TV, deployments and editors
• To work in partnership with editorial colleagues to deliver outstanding, distinctive, multi-platform, interactive and social media content by providing the ways to realiserealise editorial ambitions within operational constraints.
• To manage innovation and change, and to drive continuous improvement throughout production.
• Where necessary you will need to; to recruit, train and ddevelop staff new to the platform and ensuring a constant flow of new talent and ideas.
• Work with the Digital Editor to pilot a series of innovative digital content ideas leading to a long-term impact on the content and services we offer to audiences
• Accountable for ensuring all necessary rights are acquired for the complete delivery
• You’ll be expected to represent the team at key editorial meetings
• Responsible for scheduling content in production
• To promote greater understanding of digital production processes and workflows across beyond the BBC Africa Innovation Hub
• Eexplain digital content concepts and ideas to content makers in BBC Africa
• Ppromote and demonstrate collaborations and partnerships inside and outside the BBC, particularly looking at Universities and Technology hubs across Africa.

Necessary Skills: 

• Clear evidence of experience of telling storytelling on digital platforms
• Strong digital skills, an excellent understanding of the social media environment,
• Proven track record of innovation with the ability to lead teams and deliver to deadline
• To commission digital content and give clear instructions to members of the team as well as producers and reporters.
• Experience of converting teams and organizations to embrace and implement new digital work practices
• Proven editorial judgment and flair, able to make sound decisions quickly.
• Demonstrable knowledge of digital platforms and the different ways African audience consume news
• In depth understanding of digital analytics and how they can be used to improve output and drive change.
• Ability to work well with other producers, reporters and teams.
• Wide range of contacts from across the Africa digital
• Knowledge of Health and Safety policies and practices.

Competencies

• Decision Making – Is ready and able to take the initiative, originate action and be responsible for the consequences of the decisions made.
• Imagination / Creative Thinking – Translates news and current affairs into high quality programming through a detailed understanding of the requirements of the broadcast media and possession of the necessary writing, directing and reporting skills.
• Planning and organising – Is able to think ahead in order to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources requirements.
• Resilience – Can maintain personal effectiveness by managing emotions in the face of pressure, setbacks or when dealing with provocative situations. Can demonstrate an approach to work that is characterised by commitment, motivation and energy.
• Influencing and persuading – Ability to present sound and well reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.

Managing relationships and team working:

• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works cooperatively with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or competitively.

Editorial Judgement: 

• Makes the right editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC’s distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage as well as those of the programme departments.

How to Apply


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Job Title: Broadcast Journalist (Digital) 

Job Reference: BBC/TP/788768/22142
Location: Lagos
Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time
Department: Africa Hub
Start Date: November 2017
Reports to: Senior Broadcast Journalist Digital
Job Category: Journalism
Business Unit: News: W2020Role 

Context

• The BBC World Service is embarking on an exciting journey with unprecedented investment in digital content for Africa and your role will be critical to us in meeting our ambitions.
• The BBC will be launching a new digital innovation hub in Lagos with the ambition to develop digital journalism in Africa.
• Your role as Broadcast Journalist will play a key role in helping our content reach underserved audiences – such as younger, more female and more diverse demographics in Africa.
• We have an exciting opportunity to create new forms of digital storytelling and journalism that reaches 111 million people in Africa.
• As a Broadcast Journalist you will join a new multi-disciplinary digital team in Lagos made up of news gatherers , designers, software developers and social media specialists who will be working with journalists working across 12 language services (English, Amharic , Tigrinya, Afaan Oromo, Swahili, Somali, French, Great Lakes , Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa)

Job Purpose

• BBC Africa aims to make, explain and connect African and global stories by providing a unique insight into the main stories of the day in original formats.
• The African service digital offer consists of websites, mobile sites and social media with all services providing multimedia content in text, video, interactive and audio for radio, online, TV, mobile and social media platforms

Key Responsibilities

• To work as part of the editorial/production team in Lagos for the BBC Africa Digital Innovation Hub 
• The journalist is expected to have strong writing skills and proven understanding of African news, current affairs, social media and it’s advantageous if the candidate boasts a thematic specialism. 
• The journalist will be expected to originate, prepare and publish pages of multi-media news, background, analysis, features and video. 
• A key part of the job will be to work closely with colleagues from BBC Africa, who work in English and other languages, to ensure the best of their radio, TV, online and social content is made available to the African hub and wider BBC and make sure that content conforms to BBC editorial standards. 
• To produce and commission short-form and long-form digital content 
• To gather content for digital platforms from the field
• Contribute to the BBC News website’s Africa desk. The journalist will build on our existing African coverage, including the Africa Live page 
• To create digital video, write for our website and other social platforms and promote our content in an engaging format with the audience. 
• They will need to have talent and energy.
• They will be able to find imaginative and original ways to broaden our agenda and play a full part in discussing how best to cover the day’s news, both with colleagues from Online, BBC Africa and other BBC departments. 
• To work with graphic designers to produce creative and original graphics sequences which can be shared by other BBC departments 
• Writing and commissioning news stories, analysis and features on African issues as events dictate, using text, video and audio 
• Working closely with colleagues from BBC Africa to identify promising story ideas and content, and help adapt it for online audiences where appropriate 
• Thinking up original ways to tell stories, especially for existing and emerging digital platforms

Required Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• Proven text journalism writing and editing skills, using outstanding English
• Broad knowledge of and interest in African affairs 
• Ability to produce clean news stories, under the tightest of deadlines 
• Ability to produce original, richly-illustrated features which demonstrate a deep understanding of the issue 
• Ability to work within a team, and provide leadership to less experienced colleagues  Good understanding of social media and user generated content, and of different digital platforms and devices 
• Comprehensive knowledge of the BBC’s editorial policy and practice and of the law relating to broadcast and interactive journalism 
• Proven commitment to equality and diversity and the maintenance of health and safety standards

Competencies
(The term competency refers to the skills, knowledge and core behaviours required to perform a job, or an element of it, successfully. Qualifications usually measure outcomes or what is done, competencies measure how you do it. The interview questions are structured around the role’s core competencies):

• Editorial Judgement: Makes the right editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC’s distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage as well as those of the programme departments. 
• Creative thinking: Translates news and current affairs into high quality coverage through a detailed understanding of the requirements of the BBC News website and possession of the necessary writing, directing and reporting skills. 
• Managing relationships and team working: Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works cooperatively with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or competitively. 
• Subject Knowledge: Demonstrates an expanding knowledge of international news and current events in general and specific areas of expertise in particular, including language skills. Develops increasingly useful and exclusive sources of information.
•  Analytical Skills: Simplifies complex problems, processes or projects. Identifies causal relationships and constructs frameworks for problem-solving and/or development.  Planning and Organising: Thinks ahead in order to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues such as deadlines, staffing and resource requirements. 
• Decision Making: Is ready and able to take the initiative, originate action and be responsible for the consequences of decisions. 
• Influencing Others: Presents sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Draws from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change. 
• Communication: The ability to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information

Package Description

• Contract: Continuing
• Salary: Local Terms and Conditions Apply

How to Apply


Click here to apply online








Job Title: Broadcast Journalist (video), BBC Pidgin
Job Reference: BBC/TP/788768/22138 
Location: Lagos 
Contract Type: Permanent – Full Time
Job Category: Journalism 
Division: BBC World Service 
Reports to: Pidgin Editor 
Working pattern: Continuing Contract 

Job Introduction

• The BBC World Service is embarking on an exciting journey with unprecedented investment in digital content for Africa and your role will be critical to us in meeting our ambitions.
• At the BBC, we believe our mission is to inform, educate and connect the audiences from Africa to the rest of the world.
• BBC Pidgin digital service aims to deliver our journalism in a lively and engaging fashion, with a focus on interactivity and the promotion of content on social media and across all platforms.
• As one of our video journalist you’ll have a crucial role in leading our engagement with the audience.
• By joining BBC Pidgin, you’ll be a part of the new team including Yoruba and Igbo, will serve our audiences in Nigeria and West Africa.
• They will be based in Lagos, working alongside our operation in Abuja from where the BBC currently produces its Hausa service output. There is a strong emphasis on reaching and connecting with young audiences.
• You’re creative and versatile journalist, with a strong understanding of what makes good digital video and how video is consumed on digital platforms.
• We’re looking for producer who is passionate evangelist about digital storytelling.
• As the digital landscape is changing you would need to be as nimble as the technologies.
• You will need sound editorial judgement, understanding Africa news agenda, ability to tell complex stories in an engaging way, sharp editing skills and the ability respond to breaking news.
• You will be adept with technology, quickly pick up new skills and turn ideas into engaging storytelling.
• All candidates will be expected to demonstrate a clear understanding of digital platforms as well as video editing skills.

Job Purpose

• To create bespoke optimized content including social media posts, reports, compilations, interviews, discussions, ‘explainers’, features video, photos, infographics and other editorial content for social media networks and on all BBC Pidgin platforms.
• To ensure that any output material for which the post holder is responsible meets the standards required by the BBC

Main Duties

• Work with other members of the Pidgin and Nigeria team, and the wider BBC Africa newsroom, to identify and produce creative and innovative video news content.
• To originate innovative formats for BBC Pidgin social media posts best suited for each social network, including Facebook and Instagram and optimize these formats using social analytics and then champion the use of successful formats across the team.
• Re-version BBC material with a mobile audience in mind.
• To create multimedia content for publication on social media and the BBC Pidgin mobile audiences, as appropriate and to the required specification whilst maintaining professional journalistic standards of accuracy, impartiality and adhering to the BBC’s Editorial guidelines.
• Research, storyboard and produce stories.
•  Create headlines and video teasers to promote our stories and reach to as wide an audience as possible.
• Contribute ideas and angles to meetings on how to cover the main news of the day.
• To show visual creativity in the use of pictures and graphics to illustrate and explain fast-moving events and complex stories.
• You may be required to travel off base on short reporting trips and assignments.
• To experiment with emerging tools and platforms.
• Working to short deadlines for breaking and developing stories.
• All staff may be required to work with or move to other teams, and to have the ability to work across a range of skills and in a flexible manner, and to carry out these responsibilities in accordance with the BBC’s overall standards and values.
• The job holder will be expected to work and think collaboratively at all times – both within World Service and across the wider BBC.

Skills and Experience

• A full command and up to date knowledge of written and spoken Pidgin
• Experience of video production, editing and storytelling.
• Experience of using video editing software similar to Q-edit or FCPX.
• In depth understanding of digital and social platforms – the BBC’s and others – and the different ways audiences are consuming news in Africa
• A strong journalistic track record with knowledge of Africa and African affairs.
• Experience in social-first content production and audience engagement.
• Ability to work well with other producers, reporters and teams.
• Wide and up to date familiarity with the area/s to which the Service broadcasts including Africa , Nigeria and West African affairs and an in-depth understanding of the area/s history, politics, social issues and culture as well as the changing needs of the audience. An extensive knowledge of the media situation in the target area and the way it is developing.
• Proven editorial judgment and flair, able to make sound decisions quickly.
• Knowledge of the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and commitment to the editorial aims of BBC News.
• Must be able to work well and calmly in a live newsroom environment; handle a rapidly changing news agenda, and have the temperament to enjoy the process.
• Must be able to demonstrate sense of visual awareness as well as technical aptitude.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety policies and practices.

Competencies 
Decision Making:

• Is ready and able to take the initiative, originate action and take responsibility for the outcomes of the decisions made.

Imagination / Creative Thinking:

• Translates news and current affairs into high quality video content through a detailed understanding of the requirements of digital and social media and possession of the necessary writing, directing and reporting skills.

Planning and organizing:

• Is able to think ahead in order to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritizes and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources requirements.

Resilience:

• Can maintain personal effectiveness when managing setbacks or when dealing with provocative situations. Can demonstrate an approach to work that is characterized by commitment, motivation and energy.

Influencing and persuading:

• Ability to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behavior change.

Managing relationships and team working:

• Able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works cooperatively with others to be part of a team.

Editorial Judgment:

• Makes the right editorial and policy decisions based upon a clear understanding of the BBC’s distinctive news agenda, the requirements of news and current affairs coverage as well as those of the programme departments.

How to Apply


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Job Title: Women Affairs Journalist 


Job Reference: BBC/TP/788768/22143
Location: Lagos 
Department: Africa Hub, BBC World Service 
Grade: Local terms & conditions 
Reports to: Senior Broadcast Journalist Digital 

Context

• Here the vision is simple- join a new African digital innovation team of multitalented journalists with the mandate to innovate and influence the next generation of African women.
• The BBC World Service is embarking on an exciting journey with unprecedented investment in digital content for Africa and your role will be critical to us in meeting our ambitions. The BBC will be launching a new digital innovation hub in Lagos with the ambition to develop digital journalism in Africa. Your role as Women Affairs Journalist will play a key role in helping our content reach underserved audiences – such as younger, more female and more diverse demographics in Africa.
• We have an exciting opportunity to create new forms of digital storytelling and journalism that reaches 111 million people in Africa. As a Women Affairs Journalist you will join a new multi-disciplinary digital team in Lagos made up of news gatherers, data journalists, software developers and social media specialists who will be working with journalists working across 12 language services (English, Amharic , Tigrinya, Afaan Oromo, Swahili, Somali, French, Great Lakes , Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa)
• BBC Africa aims to make, explain and connect African and global stories by providing a unique insight into the main stories of the day in original formats. The African service digital offer consists of websites, mobile sites and Social Media with all services providing multimedia content in text, video, interactive and audio for radio, online, TV, mobile and social media platforms.

Job Purpose

• The BBC’s Africa Hub is looking for a creative journalist aware of the emerging and unreported stories about African women. This candidate will have a background creating content that represents and targets African women. As a creative you’re already creating compelling shareable digital content either professionally or in a personal capacity.
• This candidate must be literate in social media and experienced in content creation for social media, especially Facebook and Instagram.
• The candidate will play an integral role in brainstorming, creating and executing women’s content. We’re looking for someone who genuinely believes there are many stories about African women to be told who will source, curate and commission content on women’s issues from across Africa.
• Working with editors, digital TV editors and senior social media journalists from the region and wider BBC the Women Affairs Journalist would be expected to identify, sub and distribute compelling content back to the Africa services and where appropriate to BBC News Online. The journalist will be expected to contribute and occasionally present weekly TV women’s discussion programme.
• The post holder will report to a Senior Broadcast Journalist for Digital based in Lagos.
• S/he will be expected to work flexibly as required.

Main Duties

• To generate, research, produce and edit multi-media journalistic pieces aimed at BBC Africa’s female audience.
• To suggest ideas about new ways of engaging the female audience; and to put these ideas into practice.
• To identify compelling digital and TV content and translate into a form suitable for our multiple platforms
• To think of creative video/digital treatments for some content
• To present or report live for across digital platforms , TV and radio by providing up to date with the news agenda in the region and understand how it’s playing out in social spaces.
• To participate in short- and long-term planning, offer new ideas and to suggest new angles on existing stories and to put forward stories not yet covered.
• To produce and develop women’s blogging network within the Africa
• To work across platforms (online, social media, TV etc.) and ensure that the female agenda is covered across all of the Service’s output, in a relevant and engaging manner, in adherence to the BBC’s editorial guidelines
• To sub and curate content to a high standard
• To commission bloggers/contributors taking editorial responsibility for content.
• To work with website & social teams to ensure content is well placed and distributed appropriately
• To be aware of the distinctive news agenda across the BBC
• To bring ideas to wider planning and editorial meetings.
• To join or build dedicated communities around the subject and seed content where appropriate.
• To ensure that on- and off-site conversation with users is of the highest quality, from technical queries to questions about editorial direction.
• To work with other women’s affairs journalists across regions – identify themes and opportunities for collaboration
• The ability to travel to gather interviews and material for output.
• The ability to work flexibly and over weekends may be needed.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• A successful record in working in an online and social media production environment including demonstrable experience and enthusiasm for social media and interactivity
• Demonstrates an excellent knowledge of developments in social media and related areas.
• Excellent style and ability to adapt output to different platforms. Ability to engage audience
• A clear understanding of the needs and profile of the female audience and the ability to translate these into imaginative and compelling content solutions, specifically with reference to social media.
• Comprehensive knowledge of writing and editing content for publication to high editorial standards.
• Understanding of the women’s agenda in the target region and in the world.
• Evidence of sound editorial and community judgement as well as an understanding of the power of online communities.
• The ability to plan and organise time and resources effectively and to manage projects to conclusion according to deadlines.
• Demonstrable experience of making content behind or in front of a camera
• Conceive, shoot, write, edit content for Instagram channels, as well as emerging platforms
• A good knowledge of English including complete comprehension of written and spoken English and the ability to communicate effectively.
• The ability to work quickly, accurately and under pressure.
• A comprehensive knowledge of BBC health & safety procedures.

CompetenciesThe following competencies (behaviours and characteristics) have been identified as key to success in the job. Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate these competencies: 

• Editorial Judgement – demonstrates balanced and objective judgement based on a thorough understanding of BBC editorial guidelines, target audience, programme and department objectives. Makes the right editorial decisions, taking account of conflicting views where necessary. Ability to take public comments on board and to make appropriate editorial changes to content.
• Creative Thinking – able to transform creative ideas into practical reality. Evidence of innovation and the ability to devise creative solutions by developing novel ideas or adapting existing ones in new ways. Evidence of a desire to create beautiful, quality content.
• Planning and organisation – able to think ahead in order to establish and efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others. Prioritises and plans activities taking into account all the relevant issues and factors such as deadlines, staffing and resources.
• Communication – able to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information. As well as the ability to motivate and deal sensitively with people who may be working to tight deadlines
• Influencing and persuading – able to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change.
• Managing relationships and team working – able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works co-operatively with the ability to work with other teams in developing tools, features and services.
• Resilience – manages personal effectiveness by managing emotions in the face of pressure, setbacks or when dealing with provocative situations. Demonstrates an approach to work that is characterised by commitment and motivation.
• Flexibility – adapts and works effectively with a variety of situations, individuals or groups. Able to understand and appreciate different and opposing perspectives on an issue, to adapt an approach as the requirements of a situation change, and to change or easily accept changes in one’s own organisation or job requirements.

Package Description

• Contract: Continuing
• Salary: Local Terms and Conditions Apply

How to Apply



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Deadline: 3rd July, 2017.