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Job outputs:

Make sure that any copy can be published flawlessly and without problems.

• As a home editor on Netwerk24, you are expected to get copy quickly and flawlessly on the website, upload the content, carve out your homepage with the help of Google Analytics and keep it strong and use push notifications to keep readers up to date with breaking news.
• As a home editor, you are also expected to manage the desk journalists on duty on weekends and sometimes in the evenings. It requires you to quickly deliver breaking news to the journalist so that the story can appear correctly and flawlessly online.
• You can also be expected to compile your own stories from different sources.
• You are expected to take advantage of technology and multimedia
• Manage, coordinate, and drive daily loading of relevant, fresh and accurate content that will attract traffic to the site, and ensure that content is loaded correctly with the correct meta tags and description.
• Analyse site traffic and constantly try to improve and increase traffic by improving the packaging on the home page.
• Ability to run a desk shift over weekends, public holidays or on the night shift. Keep abreast of breaking news, assign stories to the journalist on duty and upload and publish content.
• Aggregate stories from different news agencies.

Skills & Competencies:

• Excellent general knowledge
• Ability to handle pressure
• Creativity
• Innovation
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent journalistic skills
• Good knowledge of the media, news, and world
• Good human relations
• Driven and energetic with loads of drive
• The ability to work at times without guidance and take own initiative
• Good judgment
• Must be fluent in Afrikaans

Qualifications and Experience:

• A relevant tertiary education in journalism;
• At least five years’ experience in journalism or a similar field

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Job Description

The Academic division of Jonathan Ball Publishers, represents and distributes academic books on behalf of a number of well-known academic publishers. We are looking for an academic representative to:

• Call on key Higher Education institutions and clients
• Provide excellent service to academics in order to identify and meet their textbook requirements and to provide efficient follow-up service
• Service academic booksellers and ensure a good flow of information, including forecasts of requirements
• Develop a thorough understanding of key courses and products
• Implement and manage marketing promotions
• Achieve and exceed sales targets
• Collect market feedback and research on product as required
• Locate and seed future business and identify new revenue streams

The successful candidate must be:

• Dynamic with good interpersonal skills
• An organised and motivated self-starter
• Able to utilise advanced causal logic
• Based in Gauteng but willing to travel
• A proactive problem-solver
• Able to absorb, generalise, modify and apply sales techniques and data streams continually.
• Able to work to deadlines and under pressure
• Excellent command of the English language – speaking, reading & writing
• Reading and written understanding of Afrikaans
• Concerned about the accuracy of detailed work
• Able to think, prioritise and modify actions and activities on a macro level
• Able to work autonomously in high stress conditions
• Able to prioritise tasks accurately using standard business criteria
• Have advanced experience with Excel, Word, Outlook and databases
• Be competent and innovative in web research techniques and data collection/selection
• In possession of a valid Driver’s Licence.
• In possession of a relevant tertiary qualification in publishing, marketing or sales
• Have at least three to five years of experience in a related field.