Internship: Digital Product Specialist (12771) at The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Liaise with stakeholders and collate relevant content for planning and exploitation purposes onto digital platforms
• Plan and theme the content and align to consumer consumption patterns
• Innovate ways of delivering content to consumers that tell an on-line story in a fresh new way, using all mediums available.
• Formulate deliverables and then deliver them to the correct standard and within deadlines.
• Monitoring of assigned digital platforms to assess requirements and respond to viewership patterns of assigned digital platform trends to formulate content exploitation strategies.
• The job does not entail shift work, but long and irregular working hours may be necessary on occasion.
• Effect digital marketing campaigns to promote content on digital platforms.
• Work in conjunction with the linear programming teams to ensure consistency in material usage
• Liaise with internal stakeholders and collating supporting metadata and images for the content
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders for the promotion and marketing of the planned content

REQUIREMENTS:

• National Diploma in Communications, Information Science, Media studies (NQF 6) or related qualifications
• Understanding of digital systems and technologies such as Websphere, Joomla and/or WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, VOD, etc
• Analytical understating in terms of digital platforms (click-throughs, page impressions, etc)
• Simple video editing, conversion, and transcoding understanding
• An understanding of the social media platforms and an ability to connect to the target market.
• Create and maintaining compelling websites.
• A desire to stay abreast of new media developments and trends.