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Senior Journalist at BBC
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Main Responsibilities We are looking to hire a Senior Journalist to work in our BBC Monitoring Nairobi office. Your main responsibilities will include: Write, translate, edit and adapt stories. Ensure the quality of output is of the highest standard Ability to consistently and accurately edit news copy to a high standard Help drive the editorial […]
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Date posted
03/10/2025
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Closing date
03/10/2025
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Career level
Experienced
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Qualification
Bachelors Degree Master’s Degree
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Experience
3 - 4 Years
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Quantity
1 person
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Gender
Any
Description
Main Responsibilities
We are looking to hire a Senior Journalist to work in our BBC Monitoring Nairobi office. Your main responsibilities will include:
- Write, translate, edit and adapt stories. Ensure the quality of output is of the highest standard
- Ability to consistently and accurately edit news copy to a high standard
- Help drive the editorial agenda and shape day-to-day coverage and treatments, identifying new ways to deliver engaging and insightful Africa content to all BBCM users
- Manage various editorial operations of the BBC Monitoring Africa team, ensuring editorial compliance and signing off on content
- Help develop and integrate creative editorial workflows
- Lead, train and support team members as required
- Engage and support the Business Development in delivering bespoke reports and providing briefings to stakeholders
- Support the effective management of resources, staff and freelancers, whether delivering daily output, or commercial and partner commissions
Qualifications
- A high standard of editorial judgment, writing and editing ability and digital production skills based on substantial journalism experience
- Thorough knowledge of news and current affairs in Africa and interest in global affairs
- Knowledge of Africa’s media environment
- Up to date written and spoken knowledge of a key regional (Africa) language – Swahili, French, Arabic, Somali, Portuguese, Amharic/Tigrinya – as well as complete comprehension of written and spoken English
- Some experience in managing a team and overseeing compliance and editorial output
- Knowledge of digital and social media tools, disinformation trends
Application deadline 20th March,2025
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