Current Opportunities at eMedia Investments

Description

• The incumbent would be required to generate revenue from new and existing client base. Negotiating group discounts to ensure market share commitment. Forecasting and reporting on a weekly basis on sales figures. Trends and agency movements. Building and strengthening client and agency relationships on a continuous basis.

Interpersonal and team relationships

• Build, support and maintain interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives.

Personal development

• Complete Individual Development Plan. Attend learning and development courses. Participate in peer and team learning initiatives.

Budget Compliance

• Comply with work rules, standards and methods. Take care to minimize waste. 

Client Liaisons

• Developing strong working relationships with both Client and Agency.
• Initiating, conceptualizing and presenting proposals relevant to clients advertising objectives.
• Developing and presenting to client/agency on an ongoing basis.
• Ensuring maximum revenue is achieved from assigned portfolio.
• Adhering to a 24-hour turnaround time to client/agency queries and briefs with thorough follow-up.
• Developing good working relationships with both the Internal Sales and Finance departments in order to be familiar with any queries/problems which may arise with clients within the AE portfolio.

Sales

• Meeting monthly sales targets that contribute to the National Sales Target. These targets will be set by the Group Head: Sales and Sales Managers and will be monitored on an ongoing basis. This entails selling advertising time to both clients and agencies, as well as prospecting new business.
• Adhering to the e.tv Sales Policy.
• Ensuring that all billing contracts are correct.
• Negotiating annual commitments timeously.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• 3-Year National Diploma in Sales/ Marketing/ Business Management - Essential

Experience

• 3 years in Sales/ Marketing - Essential
• Drivers License & Own Vehicle - Essential

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Problem solving skills
• Negotiation skills
• Presentation skills
• Time Management skills
• Coping well under pressure
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Persuasiveness
• Communication skills
• Conflict handling skills

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Description

• The incumbent would be responsible for directing and vision mixing live and pre-recorded studio productions and outside broadcast.

Interpersonal and team relationships

• Build, support and maintain interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives.

Personal development

• Complete Individual Development Plan. Attend learning and development courses. Participate in peer and team learning initiatives.

Budget Compliance

• Comply with work rules, standards and methods. Take care to minimise waste. 

Directing

• Ensuring equipment is ready and technical checks are completed.
• Ensure that programs conform to eMedia policies and regulations.
• Operate equipment to produce programs or broadcast live programs from remote location.
• Liaise with Technical Operations Management in order to formulate and maintain standard operating procedures.
• Act as liaison between Engineering and Technical Operations to report equipment failure.
• Responding to equipment failure and finding work around solutions.
• Assist with training the crew when using equipment such as switches, cameras, monitors, microphones, lighting etc.
• Planning and blocking of content for final output.

Vision Mixing

• Check desk to see if everything is working and all relevant elements is loaded for production, if any irregularity is found report to Engineering.
• Ensure upskilling and development in vision mixing standards and requirements bi-annually.
• Select required images and ensure a smooth transition between shots which involves ‘cutting’, ‘mixing’ and ‘wiping’.
• Monitor different media/visual sources, i.e. pictures from several cameras, digital video effects, and graphics and outside broadcast materials.
• Ensure vision mixing follows correct broadcast standards.
• Ensure that all the key elements i.e. crawlers and lower thirds units are setup correctly.
• Setup DVE elements as per production/show requirements.

Managing

• Manage the Technical Crew during live and pe-recorded productions.
• Manage Freelance staff during live and pre-recorded productions.
• Ensure that the Crew maintains safe and responsible handling of the equipment.
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Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• 3 Year National Diploma in Broadcast - Essential
• Bachelors Degree in Broadcast - Recommended

Experience

• 5 years' experience in Broadcast/Technical Operations - Essential
• Experience in Live Broadcast - Essential
• Drivers License & Own Vehicle - Essential

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Basic

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Change management skills
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Coaching skills
• Mentoring skills
• Persuasiveness
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Facilitation skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills

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Description

• The incumbent would be required to respond to, resolve and log all viewer correspondence, monitor transmission, source relevant information, and promote the eMedia brand through excellent customer service.

Key Performance Area:

Interpersonal and team relationships:

• Build, support and maintain interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives
• Personal development:
• Complete Individual Development Plan.
• Attend learning and development courses.
• Participate in peer and team learning initiatives.

Budget Compliance:

• Comply with work rules, standards and methods.
• Take care to minimise waste. 

Correspondence:

• Receiving incoming viewer calls and achieving an average call quality of at least 90%.
• Ad-hoc monitoring of transmission of OVHD channels in order to pro-actively identify and report transmission problems.
• Logging all viewer information on our Customer Relationship Management Software and achieving a logging quality of at least 90%.
• Achieving a response quality of at 85% on written platforms.

Maintain Customer Relationships:

• Resolving and responding to customer queries, complaints, comments and suggestions.
• Providing advice to callers about Open View related issues.
• Promotion of the e and Open View brand names and loyalty to the channel through excellent service delivery.

Requirements

Qualifications: National Senior Certificate

Experience: 1 years in Customer Service/ Sales

Competencies:

• MS Suite
• Time management
• Self-leadership
• Managing relationships
• Assertiveness
• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Decision making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Mentoring skills
• Persuasiveness
• Communication skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills

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Description

• The incumbent is responsible for conceptualizing and producing original and appealing programming for the channel/s as aligned to the editorial direction of the business. This will include the delivery of content that is audience specific, such as packages, segments, specials, and breaking news while proactively managing a broadcast team, liaising with the newsroom and technical operations, facilitating the production of graphics, editing scripts, and ensuring the seamless, error-free delivery of the broadcast that is returns market share. 

Management, Interpersonal and Team Facilitation

• Recruiting, selecting and developing the relevant and appropriate resources.
• Proactively managing resources in terms of appropriate allocation of skills/competencies and productivity, including regularly monitoring of performance.
• Ensure the smooth creation and execution of all shifts, as per the relevant and appropriate legislation and Company.
• Ensure that the Team is aligned to all applicable and relevant policies, values and behaviors of the organization.

Stakeholder Interaction

• Building, supporting and maintaining healthy, diverse internal and external relationships with all relevant and applicable stakeholders to ensure achievement of organisational goals.
• Differentiate between personal and professional relationships, such that the interests of the role and the organisation are prioritised.

Functional Planning and Performance

• Translating the strategy into an operational plan, where targets and performance measures are clear and aligned to the overall strategic direction/focus of the business.
• Regularly monitoring the operational plan, ensuring that targets are consistently met/achieved and where necessary adapt and implement remedial steps to deliver results.

Strategic Contribution

• Provide meaningful contributions to the channel strategy, specifically focus on achieving and/or exceeding market share.
• Ensuring that the strategic priorities of the organisation are translated and implemented in the team, so that efficiencies and actively managed and there is a drive to deliver operational standards of excellence.
• Continuously realign programming so that there is a agile, flexible culture of programming to continuously improve audience ratings, and where these can be easily identified by the performance statistics.

Team and Personal Development

• Ensure that the skills/competencies and knowledge in the Team and Self remain up to date, current and relevant, including but not limited to current affairs and trends, and utilising credible and authentic sources of informance as is expected in the field of journalism.
• Proactive manage performance and delivery of the Team, and where necessary, timeously and regularly address poor/concerning work and developmental areas, ensuring that there are specific and reasonable timelines.
• Align to and promote all Company work practices and processes that monitor/assess performance and development. 

Budget Compliance

• Ensure that all decisions are aligned to budget expectations and that there is a focus on return on investment, efficiencies and effectiveness.

Content Generation, Broadcast Delivery and Editorial Leadership 

• Generate and produce well researched, accurate, balanced, comprehensive, impartial, appealing and audience focused programming.
• Ensure that content and coverage is consistent with the organisation’s editorial policies and compiles with all applicable legislation and regulations.
• Provide guidance on how best to capture stories/content by brainstorming both interviews and camera angles with the relevant resources.
• Provide clear editorial direction, ensuring appropriate planning research and editorial judgement for all/any breaking news.
• Facilitate and/or lead editorial meetings and propose ideas for current and future content based on the news cycle.
• Ensuring that content is engaging for the audience with appropriate animation, slides and sound, info graphics and other media rich content to enhance the effectiveness.
• Lead discussions on guest requirements, ensuring that guests are approved as appropriate subject matter experts who are interesting, engaging and enhance the content framework.
• Lead pre and post programming meetings, ensuring that the Technical Operations and Editorial Teams are able to deliver programme requirements to the expected best practice and standards of the organisation.
• Manage on-air content, including the creation of straps and information that is informative and engaging.
• Take accountabilities for all final editorial decisions.
• Continuously review and offer feedback to the value chain, including Anchors, to ensure optimal performance and delivery of the content strategy.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• 3-year National Diploma in Journalism

Experience

• 8 years in Broadcast Journalism (Operational) - Essential
• 3 years in Management (Management) - Essential
• Drivers License - Essential

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Intermediate

Functional /Technical Competencies

• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Change management skills
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Coaching skills
• Mentoring skills
• Persuasiveness
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Facilitation skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills

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Description

• The incumbent would be required to ensure that all matters related to business news coverage are editorially and operationally sound and aligned to the strategic direction of the Channel. Ability to provide on-air analysis.

Interpersonal and team relationships

• Building, supporting and maintaining interpersonal and team relationships to ensure a conducive working environment that drives the achievement of team objectives.

Budget Compliance

• Ensuring operational excellence in operations by closely monitoring budgets and targets. 

Programme Performance

• Editorial content and judgements of all economics content is aligned to the strategy of the channel.
• Continuously driving improvements to the programme to improve audience ratings.
• Deliver a high quality of business editorial output and on-air discussion that is engaging.
• Demonstrate creativity of progamme creation and editorial approach.
• Managing the quality of on-air content holistically.
• Ensuring that all content is meticulously subbed to prevent errors.

Staff Management

• Team motivation.
• Instill a culture of creativity.
• Recruitment of staff to fill vacant posts.
• Coaching and mentoring of team to promote international quality of broadcasting.
• Ongoing formal team appraisals and feedback.
• Excellent knowledge of editorial and other company policies
• Excellent ability to communicate.
• Apply company policies and ensure adequate headcount is available to ensure operational requirements are met.

Editorial Leadership

• Lead the pre and postproduction meetings.
• Create Compelling Business Programming.
• Supervise on-air video walls for presentation by business anchors.
• Anchor outside broadcasts on main economics and business events.
• Create unqiue content.
• Request show specific content.
• Create straps and on-air information.
• Excellent knowledge of South African and global issues.
• Understanding of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission’s code of conduct.
• Good understanding of legal and ethical issues with regards to television broadcasts.

Technical

• Excellent understanding of newsroom and gallery workflows.
• Impactful decision making, to anchor, production teams and technical crews.
• Clear and authoritative communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all newsroom departments, ie: Input and Logistics.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• Bachelors Degree / 3-year National Diploma in Television or Journalism

Experience

• 8 years in Television or Journalism (Operational) - Essential
• 3 years Management (Management) - Essential
• Drivers License - Essential

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Intermediate

Functional /Technical Competencies

• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Change management skills
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Coaching skills
• Mentoring skills
• Persuasiveness
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Facilitation skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills