Senior Journalist Team Manager, Swahili TV at BBC World Service

Role Responsibility

• Manage daily editorial operations of the TV output, including ensuring editorial compliance and outputting the daily programme
• Work closely with SNE, Swahili Service, to implement digital strategy and opportunities as part of a long term strategic transformation.
• Integrate digital-first commissioning in editorial workflows and ensure that service’s editorial purpose is aligned with audience needs
• Commission and work with graphic designers to produce creative and original graphics sequences.
• Responsible for thinking through and around editorial challenges, initiating and implementing realistic alternative strategies and approaches.

Are you the right candidate?

• 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.
• Fluency in written and oral Swahili, and appreciation and understanding of different language dialects in order to provide clear editorial guidance