Job Opportunities at eMedia Investments

Description

• Reporting to the Managing Director: e.tv. The key performance indicators include but are not limited to:
•  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 behaviours of the organisation

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
• Develop and maintain a forward planning diary, ensuring that a project plan captures expected deliverables and resourcing requirements
• 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 accountability 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

• A minimum of a National Senior Certificate is essential. 
• A minimum of a National Diploma  and/or a Bachelors Degree specialising in Journalism is essential. 
• A minimum of 8 years experience in Broadcast Journalism in Programme Editor role within Television is essential. 

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Description

The incumbent would be required to ensure all technical aspects of the bulletin are met. To assist with producing creative and compelling content for the Channel.

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. 
• Writing
• Good knowledge of South African and global news.
• Ability to write to visuals.
• Fact checking all details.
• Stories must be accurate and unbiased.
• Be able to write factual copy with mininal supervision.

Technical

• Excellent understanding of newsroom workflow systems( Dalet)
• Ability to edit visuals, cut headlines according to script.
• Cutting of bytes, interviews and overlay.
• Conduct research on programme topics.
• Check electronic media, social media and articles of interest.
• Check archives for specified and appropriate visuals.
• MS Outlook

Communication

• Ability to work in a team.
• Good inter-personal skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a breaking news environment.
• Being able to problem solve especially in a breaking news environment.
• Have valuable contacts to enhance the channel’s news coverage through unique tip-offs
• Be persuasive and convincing to newsmakers that the channel needs to be on top of news.
• Compile and provide info pack for the anchor for guest interviews

Requirements

Qualification

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• Diploma Advanced Certificate in Broadcast/Journalism -  Essential
• Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast/Journalism - Essential
• Experience
• Broadcast/Journalism - 3 years - Essential

Competencies

• Code EB;Articulated motor vehicle licence
• Behavioural Competencies
• Time management
• Self-leadership
• Managing relationships
• Assertiveness
• 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 anchor business news bulletins and produce creative and compelling content for the Channel.
• 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.

Writing

• Writing must demonstrate sound knowledge of the South African economics and business landscape.
• Ability to write to visuals.
• Fact checking all details.
• Stories must be accurate and unbiased.

Technical

• Excellent understanding of newsroom workflow systems (Dalet).
• Ability to edit visuals, cut headlines according to script.
• Cutting of bytes, interviews and overlay.
• Conduct research on programme topics.
• Check electronic media, social media and articles of interest.
• Check archives for specified and appropriate visuals. 

Anchoring

• Anchor news shows and economics-related field anchoring where necessary.
• Demostrate an understanding of economic fundametals of the South African economy.
• Conducting live & pre-recorded interviews.
• Chair studio panel debates.
• Ad-libbing to live visuals during breaking economics-related stories.

Communication

• Ability to work in a team.
•  Good inter-personal skills.
•  Good communication skills.
•  Ability to work under pressure in a breaking news environment.
•  Being able to problem solve especially in breaking news environment.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• Diploma in Business/Economics, Journalism and Broadcast - Essential

Experience

• Journalism and Broadcast - 6 years - Essential  
• Competencies
• Drivers Licenses Code EB; Articulated motor vehicle license Essential
• Computer Literacy
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS Powerpoint
• Dalet

Behavioural Competencies

• Time management
• Self-leadership
• Managing relationships
• Assertiveness
• Functional /Technical Competencies
• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Persuasiveness
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Facilitation skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills 

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Description

• To produce creative and compelling content for the Channel. The Senior Broadcast Producer’s key role is to assist the Programme Editor in conceptualising the show and populating the rundown. This incumbent is the liason between the Gallery staff (including the Programme Editor, Assistant Programme Editor) and Production Team.
• 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.

Editorial

• Takes the lead in pre-production meetings by suggesting story angles and treatment.
• Ensures all content is continuously updated.
• Assist in the writing of scripts, intros and headlines.
• Create content for on-air such as packages.

Communication

• Assumes critical liaison between Programme Editor and Assistant Programme Editor.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all departments including Graphics, Input, Technical Operations, Logistics.
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members.
• Demonstrate leadership on a daily basis.

Writing

• Good knowledge of South African and global news.
• Ability to write well including writing to visuals.
• Ensure stories are accurate and unbiased by verifying all content.
• Cutting of bytes and interviews and requesting appropriate visuals.

Planning

• Maintains overall control of the production process.
• Plays a key role in pre-planning process at editorial meetings.
• Provides proper input at debrief sessions
• Delegates and oversees duties to Producers and Guest Bookers
• Responsible for show specific forward planning

Research

• Check electronic media, social media and articles of interest.

Technical

• Good understanding of newsroom operating systems.
• Ability to lead a team.
• Good inter-personal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a breaking news environment.

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential
• Diploma Journalism/Media Studies - Essential
• Bachelor’s Degree  Journalism/Media Studies - Recommended

Experience

• Television Production - 8 years - Essential  

Competencies

• Drivers Licenses Code EB; Articulated motor vehicle license Essential
• Computer Literacy
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS Powerpoint
• Dalet

Behavioural Competencies

• Time management
• Self-leadership
• Managing relationships
• Assertiveness
• Functional /Technical Competencies
• Problem solving skills
• Planning skills
• Organising skills
• Decision-making skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Coaching skills
• Mentoring skills
• Persuasiveness
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Facilitation skills
• Coping under pressure
• Conflict handling skills