BBC East Africa Bureau
Re- advertisement
Broadcast Mentor Radio
(Full time, Fixed Term Contract, 10 Months)
BBC Swahili is part of BBC Africa and broadcasts to around 20 million listeners in Eastern and Central Africa.
BBC Swahili is producing a series of TV and radio debates around the Kenyan elections complemented by an integrated web / social media platform and training to our broadcast partners.
Job Purpose: The Broadcast Mentor will deliver the training and mentoring activities of the programme by combining direct/remote support and in situ development for broadcast partners.
The successful candidate will contribute to the development of customised training programmes, provide on-the-job training to station staff on election and conflict sensitive reporting, balance and fairness and awareness of journalistic ethics and codes of conduct, deliver training to staff in production skills, reporting on elections and presentation/moderation of debates through workshops, group feedback sessions and one-on-one advisory meetings, monitor the progress of trainees through self-assessment questionnaires, interviews with staff and respective managers and content analysis of output.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in journalism, education, mass communication or other relevant area; higher qualifications an asset
- Strong experience in training and mentoring journalists and media organisations
- Experience in covering elections and conflict sensitive reporting
- Strong editorial judgment and substantial journalism experience essential
- Strong understanding of the Kenyan media environment
- Willingness to travel to various locations in Kenya.
Closing date for applications is Friday, 9th September 2012.
The position comes with excellent terms and conditions.
Interested candidates who meet the specifications should send a CV and a covering letter explaining why s/he is best suited to this role to bbcnairobi@gmail.com.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Please note this is a re-advertisement and those who have applied before need not re-apply.