Senior Journalist (Multimedia), BBC Swahili (9585)

BBC World Service is a global multimedia broadcaster, a part of BBC News, delivering language services around the world, to many parts on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays. BBC Swahili is among ten other language services broadcasting to Africa attracting a weekly audience of nearly 100 million across Radio, TV, Digital and Social Media.

We are hiring a Multimedia Senior Journalist, who will lead our output of news and current affairs on different platforms for BBC Swahili; generating ideas for driving original journalism across Africa, presenting via digital platforms to our existing audiences as well as attracting new engagement.

You will manage the daily editorial operations of the assigned output platform (both linear and digital), including ensuring editorial compliance.  Working  closely with Swahili Service Editor and other senior journalists, you will implement digital strategy and opportunities as part of a long term strategic transformation.  You’ll also commission and work with graphic designers to produce creative and original graphics sequences as well as being a solution finder overcoming editorial challenges, initiating and implementing realistic alternative strategies and approaches.

The successful candidate will be either a professional journalist or a senior operational professional with extensive editorial experience of broadcast and/or digital news, with proven ability to develop, implement new and innovative approaches to programme structure and content.  You’ll have:

• Demonstrable experience in originating and producing impactful digital first content, including explainers and analysis pieces.
• Proven experience in breaking news stories as well as producing features, investigations and original journalism about East, Central and Horn of Africa, and global news and current affairs.
• Experience in managing and overseeing a team in agile and remote working environments.
• Demonstrable experience in multimedia journalism with substantial knowledge of data analytics tools to drive decision making on story choice, publication time and recirculation.
• An understanding of BBC News distinctive news agenda and a wider interest in the digital strategy of the BBC as a whole.
• Experience in determining the content and running order of the programmes and lead others on the production of items through to transmission, including assigning, briefing and determining priorities for operational and editorial teams.
• Able to build morale/team spirit within permanent or temporary team.
• Fluency in written and oral Swahili, and appreciation and understanding of different language dialects in order to provide clear editorial guidance.

Contract: Continuing/Permanent

Band: D, local terms and conditions apply

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Job board closing: Midnight 30th November (GMT)

Any offer of employment with the BBC will be conditional upon you having the right to work in Kenya

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