Job Vacancies at eMedia Investments

Inventory Movement 

• Verifying dispatched and received assets against the assets on the Picking List.
• Ensuring that gear is barcoded.
• Completing asset check lists and handing over the picked assets to the client during gear check.
• Ensuring that gear being received is identified and logged on the picking list.

Dispatch & Receiving

• Ensuring that gear being dispatched is in good working order.
• Ensuring that picking lists and any other documentation are completed and signed off after the gear check is completed.
• Assisting with loading gear in vehicles, when and if required.
• Ensuring that when gear is received it is in good working order and that the dispatched kits are complete as per the dispatch check sheets.
• Ensuring that all return documents are to be signed-off by client / client’s representative upon Despatch and Return of Gear and equipment.
• Escalating issues with returned equipment to the relevant Departments and/or Supervisors.
• Notifying Supervisor of any damages or discrepancies and/or missing equipment once gear is received.
• Following the established missing and damages procedures, when and if required. 

Requirements

Qualifications

• National Senior Certificate - Essential

Experience

• Dispatch / Receiving - 2 years - Essential

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Content Assignment & Workflow Coordination 

• Excellent knowledge of South African and Global news. 
• Responsible to commission, edit, and publish news and current affairs digital content, on all eNCA digital platforms, on a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule as per digital strategy. 
• Implement optimal workflow and operations to ensure timely delivery of high-quality content. 
• Prioritise top-stories and assign resources accordingly. 
• Decide on the content type, style, and format for digital content – optimised per platform. 
• Decide and instruct on tone, sources, media format and audience. 
• Track and monitor stories to make decisions on story development. 
• Enable and help teams to produce content – remove and clear obstacles. 
• Manage digital news calendar and copy-editing process.  
• Maintain a digital first content approach.  
• Work with channel editorial to establish content diary of the day, including but not limited to prioritisation of top stories for publication. 
• Conduct daily editorial meetings and set the digital content agenda. 

Editorial Review & Content Management 

• Ensure factual accuracy, balance, and alignment with editorial standards before any publication.  
• Enforce journalistic standards, legal compliance, and ethical practices. 
• Edit all published content on digital platforms. 
• Ensure proper spelling and pronunciation for names, locations, and institutions. 
• Plan coverage for key news events and editorial campaigns. 
• Lead editorial direction in alignment with the channel’s news agenda.  
• Create or refine strong, SEO- and social-friendly headlines, subheads, standfirsts, and push notification copy. 
• Update breaking stories as new information comes in; coordinate updates across formats and platforms. 

Platform-Specific Publishing 

• Responsible for the publishing of news and current affairs content. 
• Format and publish stories in CMS, assign correct categories, tags, keywords, and SEO metadata. 
• Optimise content and publishing frequency per platform. 
• Ensure content is in line with platform audience in terms of content expectations and timing. 
• Stay abreast of digital platform trends to create and adapt content accordingly. 
• Use industry best practices to optimize content for SEO, mobile, and social consumption, and sharing. 
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to enhance content performance.  
• Monitor analytics and adjust content tactics for better performance. 

Format Adaptation & Multimedia Integration 

• Assign stories to specific team members to be produced in the right format. 
• Oversee specific content formats to ensure the audio and video are of required standard and optimised for platform. 

Shift Management & Editorial Accountability 

• Lead the Digital News Team during shift. 
• Provide clarity, direction and decision making during the shift – the accountable person for Digital News. 
• Make decisions in-line with a newsroom, in alignment with the Director of News 
• At the end of the shift, prepare a clear and comprehensive handover for the incoming editor/team, including ongoing stories, pending assets, and priorities.

Communication & Team Support

• Ensure Cross-Department Collaboration 
• Work closely with video producers, designers, social editors, and product teams to ensure smooth publishing workflows. 
• Mentor and Support Junior Staff 
• Provide quick feedback on drafts, headlines, or social posts during the shift. 
• Help troubleshoot or clarify editorial standards and newsroom priorities. 

Team Management 

• Lead, mentor, and manage the digital content team.  
• Accountable to team’s delivery of content. 
• Ensure timely delivery, adherence to brand and editorial standards.  
• Implement and assess team development and learning plans.

Analytics & Reporting 

• Analyse audience data to guide content strategy in real time, as well as planning. 
• Use data insights to develop and improve editorial decisions and strategy on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. 
• Track and respond to performance trends. 
• Help the channel make content decisions based on data and insights. 
• Collaborate with design, development, and social media teams to enhance presentation.  
• Use analytics to retain and grow digital audiences. 

Content and Platforms

• Produce a daily dairy with successful handover to next shift. 
• Produce a weekly and monthly calendar in line with forward planning. 
• Produce a minimum of 25 news stories per day. 
• Produce a minimum of 3 current affairs stories per day. 
• Maintain 100% compliance with all legal and editorial requirements. 
• Ensure that all content produced adheres to quality and style guide requirements. 
• Manage content publishing on all platforms in line with strategy.

Audience

• Monitor audience in collaboration with the Data and Insights Specialist to identify opportunities in the form of trends. 
• Monitor and interpret audience feedback to implement improvements. 
• Improve audience engagement. 
• Achieve audience growth per platform as per strategy.

Human Resources

• Lead the digital editorial team to produce high quality content, daily, weekly, and monthly. 
• Implement and improve workflows to achieve the highest output possible. 
• Mentor junior team members. 
• Train the team to achieve a high performing culture. 
• Manage conflict, complaints, and suggestions as to not hinder productivity. 
• Develop and implement personal development plans for the team. 
• Conduct performance reviews as per company procedure. 
• Manage all Human Resources requests, such as but not limited to leave requests within the team. 

Budget Compliance

• Managing and maintaining costs below the applicable budget. 
• Collaborating with the commercial / sales team to identify and create sales opportunities while maintaining editorial integrity. 
• Meeting and complying with work practices, standards and methods and ensuring application of financial parameters. 
• Optimize resources and demonstrate a cost-effective approach in all tasks

Qualifications 

• ​National Senior Certificate is Essential
• ​National Diploma in Digital is Essential
• Bachelors Degree in Journalism is Recommended

Experience 

• 7 years in Journalism, Media, or Digital Newsroom and/or related field is Essential
• 3 years as a Supervisor in Journalism, Media, or DigitalNewsroom and/or related field is Essential
• Drivers Licence - Recommended