Journalist at BBC Monitoring

Main Responsibilities

Role

BBC Monitoring is recruiting a digital journalist to work as part of a team covering Africa in the BBC offices in Nairobi. 

Role responsibility 

• As a Journalist, you’ll play a pivotal role in meeting the needs of BBC Monitoring’s users by identifying news and key insights based on the monitoring of vernacular sources - TV, radio, newspapers and social media - across Africa.  
• You will produce engaging content in English and cover many news stories, including breaking news.
• You will work a shift pattern, feed into the global news agenda, acting as a point of reference on Sub-Saharan Africa.
• You'll use a variety of tools and techniques to mine the media for story ideas, identify emerging trends and narratives and contribute to advance planning for coverage of key events.

Are you the right candidate?

• Excellent knowledge (spoken and written) of at least one main language spoken in Africa (Amharic, Somali, Swahili, French, Arabic, Hausa, Portuguese etc), experience as a journalist and exceptional writing skills in idiomatic English. 
• You’ll be able to record accurately, to report impartially, to provide context as necessary and to ensure all output is consistent with the BBC’s editorial guidelines. 
• You’ll have a thorough understanding of Africa’s media environment, political, cultural, religious and economic issues
• You’ll be able to track breaking news and emerging trends on social media.
• You are willing and able to embrace new ways of working, to continually develop yourself and others around you and to actively seek feedback.
• You have good inter-personal communication skills and can work collaboratively with team members and with other parts of the BBC.