Current Opportunities at eMedia Investments

Description

• The incumbent would be required to identify, implement and maintain software solutions to optimise business operations.

Interpersonal and team relationships

• Build, support and maintain interpersonal and team relationships to ensure stable working environment and achievement of team objectives.
• Implementing remedial actions where required.

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. 

Application and Collaboration

• Working as a key part of the digital team to ensure that applications are deployed efficiently within the business and in line with the organisation’s digital strategy.
• Providing technical expertise in the development of new and existing applications.
• Assessing the requirements of new workflows and determine whether these are required.
• Liaising with vendors on issues pertaining to routine and adhoc maintenance, technical support and development.
• Seeking, understanding, and translating business operational process needs into improvement specifications or new application development.
• Liaising with other members of the digital applications team to ensure that interfaces with other applications and third-party products work.
• Liaising with vendors and internal technical teams to ensure that existing applications are optimised to meet business needs.
• Collaborating with vendors and internal technical teams to implement new applications or new modules within existing applications.
• Identifying suitable new and emerging technologies, developing business cases and coordinating proof of concepts.

Project Management

• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with internal departments and clients at all levels to understand their business drivers and requirements to deliver technical solutions.
• Delivering outputs set by the digital management team to acceptable time, quality and cost.
• Serving as project lead for business application projects and implementations
• Ensuring that all measures are taken for successful delivery.
• Assuming responsibility for project budgets and for ensuring that expenditure and resources are tracked throughout and remain within project tolerance.
• Accurately assessing when to escalate project issues to the stakeholders and digital management team.

Specialized Support

• Providing specialized technical / professional support to internal and external stakeholders to ensure achievement of functional and organisational objectives.
• Providing and serving as support lead and provide first class support services to satisfy the needs of our customers and internal stakeholders.
• Resolving any support queries and liaising with internal teams and third parties to ensure the prompt resolution of all requests.
• Providing support outside core hours for extended support during project implementations when required and/or if by the business.

Data Integrity Control

• Obtaining, checking and refining information.
• Collating and submitting reports.
• Running data exception reports and take corrective action.
• Conducting document control spot-checks.

Testing and Deployment

• Managing change control for all business applications
• Ensuring thorough System/UAT testing is performed prior to a full and controlled release.
• Reviewing and updating test scenarios for digital platforms test scenarios.

Documentation and Training

• Ensure all project changes are fully documented and the relevant stakeholders are trained.

Developing and maintaining system documentation and procedures that include:

• Application Support Procedures
• System and Technical Configuration Documentation
• User Training for new systems

Organise regular meetings with system users to maintain a working awareness of their service operations.

Maintenance and Disaster Recovery

• Managing and developing data integrity and security standards for the systems, co-coordinating requests for access within agreed parameters.
• Managing and planning a schedule for the safe introduction of new releases/patches to meet service requirements.
• Overseeing backup and disaster recovery for digital applications.
• Ensuring and monitoring system uptime for digital applications and to escalate and resolve critical system issues.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems/Computer Science - Essential

Experience

• 8 years' experience in Digital Applications Management - Essential

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Advanced
• MySQL - Advanced
• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript - Advanced
• Redis, Varnish and Cloudflare - Advanced
• Cloud based infrastructure - Advanced

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Decision-making skills
• People Management skills
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Facilitation skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills

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• The incumbent would be required to report on news stories of the day through, live content and packages.  

Interpersonal and team relationships

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

Personal development

• Completing Individual Development Plan.
• Attending learning and development courses.
• Participating in peer and team learning initiatives.

Budget Compliance

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

Conducting Research

• Conducting research and writing scripts on topics prior to broadcasts.
• Identifying newsworthy events and developments and generating unique story ideas from this.
• Attend weekly diary meetings to pitch, discuss story ideas and developments and plan the week ahead with the team.
• Generating thought provoking and compelling stories.
• Checking electronic media (wires), social media and articles of interest.
• Checking archives for specified and appropriate visuals.

Conducting Interviews

• Representing the organization at conferences, press briefings, events, and interviews.
• Interviewing eyewitnesses, authorities, and people of interest in news stories.
• Assigning & Briefing the Camera Operator and Interviewee prior to broadcast.
• Conducting preliminary telephonic interviews.
• Asking probing follow-up questions.
• Ensuring interviews contain a variety of voices and/or angles.

Writing Scripts

• Writing scripts in line with visuals.
• Transcribing and summarizing events for further news purposes.
• Providing time coded short list with all scripts for Sub-Editors.
• Checking facts with relevant stakeholders to ensure that stories are accurate and unbiased.
• Deliver a well-researched story including a video that has unique angles for eNCA`s online audience.

Reporting

• Updating and maintaining a strong contact base for story ideas.
• Knowledge of current local, national and international news.
• Traveling to events and ensuring the proper maintenance, security, and care of recording equipment.
• Working collaboratively with Cameramen and other members of a reporting team.
• Attending and reporting on events that are of interest to the public.
• Delivering scripted, spontaneous, live, and prerecorded reports on newsworthy events.
• Provide compelling packages with content for television.
• Conducting live and on camera interviews that are hard-hitting and probing.
• Conducting live reports from the field ensuring accuracy and objectivity.
• Ensuring stories have depth and quality.
• Doing in-studio lives that are professional and informative.
• Providing the news desk with regular updates on stories by adhering to the editorial deadlines.
• Adhering to story deadlines.
• Taking a multi-media approach to individual stories done by use of graphics and animations thereby ensuring good sound quality, still pictures as well as moving visuals and overall content are shared, prepared and edited properly – ready for air.
• Ensuring a professional appearance, language use, and manner throughout reports.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• 3-year National Diploma in Media Studies/ Television/ Journalism and/or Communications - Essential

Experience

• 5 years as a Reporter in News/Television and/or Broadcast Journalism - Essential
• Driver's License - Essential
• Own Vehicle - Recommended

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Advanced

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Ethical and professional research and reporting skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Able to form and ask probing questions to interviewees.
• Passionate about the news and current events.
• Well-spoken, engaging, and knowledgeable about news events.
• Critically-minded, meticulous, and excellent recall of facts.
• Adventurous, calm under pressure, and determined to uncover the truth.
• Great interpersonal and rapport-building skills.

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Description

• The incumbent would be required to coordinate all live crossings for the various programmes as well as the flow of feeds between regions.  To manage the workflow of Video Editors and ensure all material is available on dalet.

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. 

MCR Coordination

• Routing correct feeds (SNG, LiveU, FSN, Skype, Zoom, Teams etc) to the correct matrix in the correct studio.
• Ensuring all daily recordings from various studios are recorded onto the FIFO server system.
• Ensuring all feeds/visuals for broadcast are recorded and available onto Dalet.
• Downloading material from global news and online news service providers etc for use in daily packages.
• Coordinate the flow of daily stories, incoming visuals and long form content  that need to be edited.
• Selling and sending of current footage for external clients.
• Hiring additional SNG’s vehicles if required by assignments.
• Troubleshooting problematic feeds with the Engineers.
• Identify resource requirements and ensure correct staffing requirements are in place. 

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• Relevant Qualification in Broadcast - Essential

Experience

• Relevant years of experience in Broadcast - Essential

Computer Literacy

• MS Office Suite - Advanced

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Work in a live and pre-recorded environment.
• Work independently and be able to take direction to meet broadcast requirements.
• Work under extreme pressure ensuring deadlines are met.
• Work with technical and editorial staff.
• Work with focus and attention to detail.
• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Persuasiveness
• Communication skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills

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Description

• The Product Strategy Manager is responsible for developing, defining and guiding the brand product strategy by identifying and evaluating strategic opportunities and partnerships that drives Y Market share and resonance.   

Key Performance Areas:

• Responsible for developing, defining and guiding the brand product strategy to deliver business objectives. 
• Research and analyze the product offering, target market, industry trends and competitive activity to support brand growth and innovation 
• Perform and present monthly Brand Strategic reviews to ensure consistent learning and optimisation of all product initiatives 
• Stay-up-to-date on platform and product developments
• Keep up-to-date with target market consumer preferences. 
• Provide direction and effective management of product offering.
• Lead ideation and brainstorming sessions internally and externally that extract fresh thinking from attendees and results in actionable next steps.
• Development and implementation of new and forward-thinking product development strategies to ensure the future proofing of the brand. 
• Conceptualisation, development and execution of new product opportunities in collaboration with other functions within the organisation. 
• Ensure that all new product development projects are commercially viable and/or grow consumers or audiences for the Y brand.  
• Effective project managing of the product development opportunities. 
• Perform any reasonable task that may be required by the Managing Director from time to time. 

Requirements
Education: A minimum BCOM degree 

• Experience: preferred 3 years experience in product strategy management within the media/technology sector advantageous. Must have a valid drivers license 

Specific Professional Competencies: 

• Experience leading and managing a department with a high degree of accountability
• Desire to stay current on new digital technologies and other platform-related ecosystem partners and their capabilities.
• Ability to handle and prioritise multiple projects and to adjust to inevitable changes in timelines, deadlines, and project goals.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong critical thinking ability.
• Good leadership qualities
• Strong administrative skills
• Sharp business acumen and professional maturity. Self-starter that has a relentless passion for knowing more and doing their best work, balanced with a deep respect for the skills that others bring to the table.
• Have a rigorous and inquisitive mindset, with the ability to analyse a tangled range of inputs, identify what is missing and synthesise into clear findings. 
• Ability to translate research findings into guiding principles and actionable strategic plans.
• Good at maintaining confidentiality of all information
• Professional
• Vibrant and energetic
• Capable of working independently
• Self-motivated
• Diligent reporting
• Reliable
• Quick learner
• Team player
• MS Office Suite