BBC Swahili Assistant Editor Jobs in Tanzania

BBC Swahili Assistant Editor Jobs in Tanzania

Job title

Assistant Editor

Job purpose

Responsible for supporting an Editor(s) with day to day editorial responsibilities
and managing a large team of journalists

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

Develop and maintain high professional standards of journalism, ensuring delivery of
high quality news programmes

Determine the content and running order of the programme and lead others on the
production of items through to transmission, including assigning, briefing and
determining priorities for operational and editorial teams

Continue the development of the programme across social media and digital
platforms, exploring the potential for expanding

Responsible for building morale/team spirit within permanent or temporary teams;
ensuring the best use of individual skills/abilities.

Encouraging team members to
think about how to do things better

Sets challenging team and individual objectives and trusts people to get on with
them, shares clear expectations about required performance levels, rewards success
and addresses performance issues quickly and fairly, treats team members with

Seek ways to increase diversity in our workforce and to ensure that our output
reflects the audiences we serve

Assist in the development, commissioning and management of relevant business
plans and manage individual programme budgets, ensuring value for money in use of
resources

To act as a facilitator of change, clearly communicating and sharing best practices
are shared between teams

Delivering to tight deadlines while maintaining the highest editorial standards.

Responsible for ensuring safe working practices and the observance of BBC’s health
and safety regulations, including completing hazard assessments

Knowledge, skills, training and experience
Essential

Either a professional journalist

or a senior operational professional with extensive
editorial experience of broadcast news and the ability to develop and implement
new and innovative approaches to programme structure and content

Proven editorial judgement and flair, able to make sound decisions quickly

A detailed understanding of the latest techniques and technology for newsgathering
and production. An ability to use new technologies to create opportunities to
enhance output and improve working practices

Job Description

Ability to work effectively as a member of more than one team.

Resolving conflicts
as necessary.

Can identify a vision along with the plans which need to be implemented to meet
the end goal. Evaluates situations, decisions, issues etc. in the short, medium and
longer-term

Demonstrates a commitment to improving diversity in the BBC and understands
how individual differences can benefit the BBC

Able to prioritise and plan activities taking into account all the relevant issues and
factors such as deadlines, staffing, programme budgets and resource requirements

Ability to write creatively in an engaging manner, adapt, produce and translate with
accuracy, clarity and style appropriate to differing audiences and forms of media
suitable for multimedia output

The flexibility and adaptability to sustain performance, particularly under pressure to
meet deadlines and changing priorities and circumstances

An understanding of Health & Safety procedures and how it applies to broadcasting

Job impact

Decision making

High level of responsibility and decision making; able to operate alone.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by 19th May 2019

For more information and job application details, see; BBC Swahili Assistant Editor Jobs in Tanzania

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