Job Openings at Switch TV

Reporting to the Sales Direct Manager, the Direct Sales Executives will be responsible for the following: –

• Cultivate relationships with clients, gain deep insight into their business and ultimately provide solutions to their marketing and advertising needs. Having rich clients’ resources would be preferred
• Analyze and integrate our resources, creating new ideas on how to expand advertising and sponsorship revenue and achieve the sales targets
• Collect the information and analyze Kenya market and our competitors, creatively develop the sales strategies and plans against sales targets
• Ability to work long hours in a high-pressure environment selling advertising airtime, commercial productions without supervision
• Providing a holistic client service relations plan in order to optimize advertising budgets and achieve set revenue targets to clients so as to maximize broadcasting sales volumes and revenue targets
• Any other tasks assigned by management

Qualifications

The ideal candidate must have a core understanding of media industry and marketing management especially the media environment/ facts in Kenya, at least 3 years’ experience in advertising sales. Experience in TV advertising will be an added advantage.

Skills:

• Must be a graduate preferably in Marketing and Communications
• Should have strong and comprehensive analytical and effective execution abilities.
• Should be good at strategic thinking – to develop the business strategies that focus on short, medium and long term.
• Should possess the ability and skills to write proposals
• Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office Packages and other relevant marketing software.
• Team work oriented.
• Presentation and communication skills

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Reporting to the Head of Digital & IT, the IT Broadcast Specialist will be responsible for the following:

• TV studio, Distribution and connected back-office IT technology operation and business continuity
• Operation emergency providing workarounds
• Liaising with studio technical supervisor
• Supporting editorial and creative staff providing quick IT technical solutions
• Providing IT helpdesk services
• Development and maintenance of technology

Qualifications

The ideal candidates must possess a Degree in Computer science or any other technical related field with at

• least 3 years of TV studio IT system operation, experience in video and audio technology
• Familiarity with video/audio and broadcast IT system design concept and equipment
• Familiarity in Non-linear Editing, storage and archive systems
• A good understanding of video and audio file and compression formats
• Extensive knowledge in IP network design and administration
• Windows/Linux server-client system administration skills and experience
• Thrive in a high-pressure environment, attentive to detail with the ability to multi task.

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Reporting to the Managing Editor, the ENG REPORTER will be responsible for the following:

Responsibility:

• Generating ideas for stories and features and following leads from news agencies, the police, the public, press conferences and other sources
• Pitching ideas to editors
• Researching, verifying and collating evidence and information to support a story using relevant information sources such as the internet, archives, databases, etc.
• Selecting appropriate locations, pictures and sound and exercising editorial judgment on the best angle from which to approach a story
• Identifying necessary resources and deploying and managing technical crews for location shoots, including camera crew
• Providing directorial input, advising crews on what to film or record
• Producing complete packages for broadcast
• Preparing and presenting material for both pre-recorded and live piece
• Identifying potential interviewees, briefing them, preparing interview questions and conducting both live and recorded interviews
• Collaborating with the editor to put together the completed program or item
• Developing and maintaining local contacts and assuming a public relations role

Requirements

• 3 years of TV editor, producer or reporter position; experience in filming, editing and producing news
• Graduate in Journalism or Communications
• A thorough knowledge of news and current affairs in the Kenya, Africa and internationally
• Strong writing skills, and ability to convey information in a clear, concise and conversational manner
• Excellent live reporting skills and strong on-camera presentation skills
• Able to work a flexible schedule, including nights and weekends
• Ability to interact professionally and build relationships and sources
• Ability to shoot and edit digital video
• Strong research skills, including the ability to navigate online search engines
• Social Media & Multimedia experience

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Reporting to the Managing Editor, the Assignment Editor will be responsible for the following: –

• Oversees news gathering process (Editorial Desk & ENG Reporters) and logistics for all of our news platforms.
• Takes strong lead in breaking news coverage and pre-packaged stories/ features.
• Aggressively coordinate how enterprise stories are sought including actualizing documentaries or mini-documentaries.
• Ensures that the Editorial Desk monitors social media and builds content for our web site and other socialmedia handles.
• Reacts aggressively and decisively to breaking news with or without management present bearing in mind our target audience.
• Builds strong sources in the community.
• Co-ordinate the Editorial Desk, anchors and reporters.
• Working closely with the Editorial Desk and ENG reporters on angles to stories as they develop and packaged features.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate must have a proven experience as an Assignment Editor or relevant role with at least 5 years’ experience in a newsroom and at least 2 as an assignment editor.

Skills

• Graduate in Journalism / Mass Communication or related field
• Exceptional editing ability and analytics.
• Forthright, passionate, self-driven, strategic thinker and meticulous.
• Interrogates media law and ethics.
• Organizational and leadership skills.
• Proficiency in English and Kiswahili.
• Ability to work odd hours and adapt to a shift rota.
• Team player and ability’