Job Vacancies at eMedia Investments

Reporting

• Work collaboratively with cameramen and other members of a reporting team.
• Attend and report on events that are of interest to the public.
• Deliver scripted, spontaneous, live, and prerecorded reports on newsworthy events.
• Provide compelling packages with content for television.
• Conduct live reports from the field ensuring accuracy and objectivity.
• Ensure that stories have depth and quality.
• Conduct in-studio lives that are professional and informative.
• Respond to breaking news events quickly and accurately
• Provide the news desk with regular updates on stories by adhering to the editorial deadlines.
• Ensure adherence to story deadlines.
• Take a multi-media approach to individual stories done by use of graphics and animations thereby ensuring good quality, still pictures as well as moving visuals and overall content are shared, prepared and edited properly and ready for air.
• Ensure a professional appearance, language use, and manner throughout reports.

Interviews

• Deliver high-quality live and recorded reports, maintain strong news contacts, and ensure compelling multi-platform content.
• Represent the organization at events, including: conferences, press briefings, events, and interviews.
• Interview a range of people - eye-witnesses, authorities, and people of interest in news stories, newsmakers
• Briefs the Camera Operator and Interviewee prior to broadcast.
• Storyboards
• Conduct preliminary telephonic interviews.
• Ask probing and follow-up questions.
• Ensure interviews contain a variety of voices and/or angles.
• Conduct interviews with people involved in the story, either in-person or remotely.
• Conduct live and on camera interviews that are hard-hitting and probing.

Research

• Identify, investigate, and verify news stories, attend meetings, and ensure factual accuracy.
• Identify newsworthy events, conduct in-depth research, attend diary meetings, and generate compelling stories.
• Conduct research and write scripts on topics prior to broadcasts.
• Attend weekly diary meetings to pitch, discuss story ideas and developments and plan the week ahead with the team.
• Check electronic media (wires), social media and articles of interest.
• Check archives for specified and appropriate visuals.
• Stay updated with the latest local, national, and international news.
• Research and gather information on current events and news stories.
• Receive assignments or investigate news leads/tips
• Identify exclusive or unique storytelling opportunities.
• Maintain a high accuracy rate with minimal fact-checking revisions required.

Script Writing

• Write well-researched, accurate scripts aligned with visuals for balanced and fair reporting.

Stakeholder Relationships and Networking

• Engage actively in discussions, ensuring collaboration across multiple teams.
• Build strong relationships, develop sources, and collaborate with media teams.
• Develop contacts and sources for use in reporting
• Collaborate with editors, colleagues
• Balance workloads effectively to maximize efficiency and minimize last-minute chaos.
• Effective and efficient management of teams for targeted audience/s. 

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Diploma in Media Studies/Television/Journalism and/or Communications - Essential
• Bachelors Degree in Media Studies/Television/Journalism and/or Communications - Essential

Experience

• 5 - 8 years in News, Television, and/or Broadcast Journalism - Essential
• Drivers Licences - Essential

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Description

Reporting to Manager: Sales, the key performance areas include but are not limited to:

Sales and Revenue Generation 

1. Meeting and/or exceeding monthly and annual sales targets.
2. Prospecting, negotiating, and closing new business opportunities.
3. Securing and managing annual client commitments and group discounts.
4. Ensuring correct revenue and billing contracts are processed timeously.

Client Liaison

1. Managing client onboarding and associated processes. 
2. Building, maintaining and growing strong working relationships with clients, agencies and brand partners.
3. Serving as a trusted advisor by understanding client brands, objectives and challenges.
4. Maintaining a 24-hour turnaround by delivering accurate, timely and proactive responses to all client and agency briefs.
5. Ensure high levels of client satisfaction and repeat business through consistent engagement.

Proposal and Campaign Management   

1. Conceptualising, preparing and presenting customised advertising proposals.
2. Providing digital sales opportunities and proposals to the broader CTS teams and/or clients.
3. Monitoring campaign performance and provide post-campaign reporting and ROI analysis where required.

Administration and Reporting 

1. Submitting accurate sales forecasts, revenue reports and campaign performance reports.
2. Ensuring accurate billing, contracts and month-end processing.
3. Resolving internal queries efficiently, avoiding rework and/or discrepancies.

Market and Industry Analysis 

1. Staying informed on media and digital trends, innovations, and audience insights.
2. Applying data and analytics tools to inform client proposals and campaign optimisation.
3. Maintaining a thorough understanding of both company offerings and client portfolios.

Requirements

1. A minimum of a National Diploma in Sales or Marketing; and
2. A minimum of 3 years experience in Digital Sales/ Digital Marketing