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The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting radio and television news, speech and discussions in 29 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays. It was announced… read more in November 2016 that The BBC World Service will start broadcasting in Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba and Amharic among others in its biggest expansion since the 1940s. The World Service reached 210 million people a week (TV, radio and online) on average in 2015. The English-language service broadcasts 24 hours a day.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
Provide editorial leadership across all East African language services, ensuring consistently high quality journalism across platforms.
Line manage language service editors and senior teams, fostering strong editorial standards, creativity, and collaboration.
Take responsibility for complex editorial decision making, including issues involving geopolitical sensitivity, legal considerations, and operational risk.
Set and deliver a clear editorial strategy for commissioning, newsgathering, and production in partnership with senior leaders across Africa.
Lead engagement with partnerships, launches, and major regional and strategic projects.
Manage and influence a wide range of senior and executive stakeholders, often under tight deadlines and competing priorities.
Drive effective production, distribution, and rollout strategies to maximise reach, relevance, and impact for audiences.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
Substantial experience of journalism and production, as well as proven editorial judgement and substantial experience of managing editorial and operational staff and facilities in a daily news environment.
Expert knowledge of our audience’s needs, current market trends and challenges, and deep knowledge of editorial output processes across the whole of the BBC, as well as that of competitors.
Experience of solving complex editorial and legal challenges, managing significant budgets and understanding key financial drivers.
Experience of managing staff across locations, having nurtured talent and be internally and/or externally recognized as a promoter of diversity and inclusion
In addition to full proficiency in English, a working knowledge of one or more of the relevant languages that the BBC operates in across Africa.
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