Job Opportunities at Media24 (Pty) Ltd

Duties and responsibilities

• Sourcing appropriate, striking visuals for the brands’ various products
• Ensuring visual consistency in conjunction with the art director
• Assisting with administrative duties related to syndication & archiving
• Engaging with content partners in various divisions and ensuring editors across platforms have visual support
• Building and maintaining strong relations with suppliers and contributors
• Creating a system for ensuring accuracy of images passing through the system
• Archiving used images and managing this archive
• Effective management of incoming images
• Meeting all editorial deadlines
• Quickly and effectively communicating with others when problems arise.

 Skills & competencies

• At least two years’ working in a picture research environment or a proven track record in picture research environment, showcasing a talent for visual storytelling
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent grasp of current affairs, in particular local news and international celebrity news
• A desire to constantly improve the picture research contribution on a creative and system level
• Excellent time-management skills
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks with high effectiveness and efficiency
• Have a creative and curious mind and be interested in what’s happening in the world
• Have the ability to work under pressure
• Have excellent filing, administration and organisational skills
• The ability to be flexible and adaptable and be sable to problem-solve under immense pressure.

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Duties would include:

• Engage with principals and freight agents
• Generating shipping Price, shortage, damage and returns claims.
• To email shipping claims to overseas principals and follow up outstanding credit notes
• General administration duties

Job Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous
• 3 years customer service/administration experience
• Previous experience in Book master would also be advantageous
• Previous exposure to a customer service/administrative environment

Skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Good analytical and administrative skills
• Efficient and deadline driven
• Computer literacy – MS Office with sound Excel skills
• Very good communication skills – oral and written
• The ability to foster relations with principals/suppliers and freight agents

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Minimum Requirements:

• Completed a national degree or diploma in English, journalism or media studies.
• At least one years’ experience in content management and subbing. 
• Must have a sound knowledge and passion of international and continental football, with a knowledge of clubs, leagues and players. 
• A requirement is to watch football regularly and be up to date with the latest developments in world football.
• Strong digital skills.
• A strong command of the English language.
• Understanding of media law and be able to adhere to the South African Press Code.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong attention to detail to ensure clean copy.
• Have a strong command of the English language, with the ability to correct and enhance spelling, grammar and creative writing. 
• Ability to work under pressure due to a demanding online environment.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Can make decisions independently as well as within a group.
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Logical thinker who can analyse situations and come up with the right solutions.
• Excellent people-relations skills.
• Problem solving ability.
• Show initiative and act independently.
• Good time management and the ability to multitask effectively and follow through.

Duties & Responsibilities include:

• Manage content submitted by the journalists daily in line with the publications’ editorial approach.
• Evaluate all content of all articles to ensure accuracy and recommend modifications and changes to achieve all objectives and edit all articles to ensure achievement to all quality standards.
• Subbing and publishing of content within defined number of articles a day.
• Headline bolstering. 
• Manage content performance and social reposts. 
• Deliver on editorial commercial promotions.  
• Publish content in line with the publications’ best practice.
• Manage the content for the editorial and sales campaigns.
• Management of the content reel.
• Social promotions on the respective social media platforms and/or standalone platforms.  
• Work with the editor or journalists to draw up, implement and report on strategies to grow web traffic.
• Drive traffic to the websites. 
• Ensure the implementation and improvement of SEO best practice in the content offering.  
• Plan and manage the content daily with the team of journalists.

Functional tasks:

• Facilitate the individual team’s daily editorial plan.
• Align daily diary with the defined content plan.
• Identify and assist in the redesign of content plans to fit into market and reader behavioural changes.
• Plan and submit daily/ weekend handovers.
• Planning of the editorial week for approval of the editor.
• Adhere to deadline time frames set in place by the publication and/or the editor. 
• Develop and up-skill journalist’s writing ability, style and creativity.
• Qualitative and analytical understanding of reports. 
• Analysis of content performance and web traffic.