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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