New Job Opportunity at BBC Media Action – Tanzania, Senior Journalist

Location Dar es-Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of
Job Title Journalist
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Job Introduction
The
BBC is an international multimedia broadcaster on radio, TV, online and
social networks with a weekly global audience of 320 million.
BBC
Swahili Service operates a digital first strategy, publishing content
online and on social media platforms, this alongside producing radio
news and current affairs programmes in Swahili. The service’s focus is
to produce world-class digital content that makes sense of news and
events for our local and global audiences. 

Role Responsibility
We are looking for a senior
multimedia journalist who will be editorially in charge of our Swahili
Flagship program, Amka na BBC to ensure distinctive coverage of stories
that appeal to our Swahili audience.

The role holder
will lead a team of journalists in producing the daily (Weekday) dawn
program, commissioning and signing off the program. In order to do that
you will need to have strong writing and editing skills in Kiswahili
and also be able to reversion English text into Kiswahili.
You will oversee the development of BBC Swahili radio program to offer original and distinctive journalism.

In this highly visible role you’ll be contributing your vision for the program with various key stakeholders.
As
the senior member of the Swahili editorial team, you will help the
service to build authentic connections between the BBC and its audience.
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Other duties include:

• As the senior journalist champion you will liaise between the
  service, the BBC Africa hub and the wider BBC and communicate the BBC
  radio vision and industry developments to the department.
• You will be reporting to Editor, Swahili service and Assistant
  Editor and will be expected to cultivate relationships with the BBC
  Africa planning teams and BBC World Service teams to ensure that BBC
  Swahili content is effectively disseminated inside as well as outside
  the BBC
• You will be expected to lead a production team based in multiple
  locations across East Africa to produce a daily 30 minute program (two
  editions) and on occasion will be called upon to deliver and produce the
  evening, an hour-long show, Dira ya Dunia.
• You will be responsible for originating and producing stories
  (creatively) which may include scripting, recording, editing and
  outputting /signing off programs.
• Commission and select relevant materials ensuring they meet
  expectations of our audiences and adhere to the BBC’s editorial
  guidelines.
• Deliver journalism of the highest standard and within the required timeframe using available resources.
• As required, to allocate work to a team and check progress; ensure
  the professional contribution of staff and the quality of output.
• As the senior journalist in the service, you will be the main point
  of reference for identifying training needs for your team and the
  department. You’ll be working to develop transferable skills environment
  in the department.
• To act as a facilitator of change, clearly communicating and distributing best practices between teams.

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Are you the right candidate?
For
the Senior Journalist role you will need to be versatile with proven
journalistic and high quality radio production skills. You will have
experience in interviewing with excellent editing skills, energy,
creativity, flexibility and an in-depth understanding of the news,
politics, culture and social issues relevant to our Swahili audience.

You
will need to be fluent in Kiswahili. As Senior Journalist you will need
to be able to broadcast, write and reversion English text into
Kiswahili. You should also have proven production skills to curate high
quality programs to meet BBC editorial standards.

Band: Local Recruit
Contract type: Continuing
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Any offer of employment with the BBC is conditional upon you having the right to work in Dar es Salaam 

About the BBC
We
don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our
values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure
you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached
below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working
environment where we value and respect every individual’s unique
contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their
full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range
of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute
to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more
diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect
our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed
to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals,
regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation,
gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We
will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless
operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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Attached documents

• Please click here for the full job description
• BBC Values Guide

Closing Date 08 September, 2020.