Employment Opportunities at Mwananchi Communications Limited
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JOB DETAILS:
Mwananchi Communications Limited, a subsidiary of Nation Media Group, and publishers of Mwananchi, The Citizen and Mwanaspoti newspaper and its digital products is looking to recruit highly motivated and experienced individuals to fill the positions 

Purpose:

This position requires an exceptional bilingual journalist and digital native who is obsessed with using data 8 insights to generate engaging content and build audiences across multiple platforms. You have a proven track record creating targeted, interactive web 8 social media content, managing online communities, converting casual readers and followers into engaged fans. As an audience-first digital journalist, you are obsessed with quality, clarity, accuracy and speed. You are also comfortable with various content management systems (WordPress, Drupal, CoreMedia), analytics tools (Chartbeat, Google Analytics) and footprint 8 impact trackers (Keyhole, Hootsuite).

Main Responsibilities:
• Use audience data to refine content strategies for news, features and special projects for mwananchi.co.tz, YouTube and social media pages, focusing on mobile-first delivery.
• Develop monthly content calendars (outside events stories) for mwananchi.co.tz, ensuring a consistent pipeline of original digital reporting and exclusive web stories.
• Upload 8 distribute articles (text, visuals 8 audio) to mwananchi.co.tz and other MCL sites and social media channels, ensuring accurate, timely content delivery for discrete audiences.
• Edit headlines and copy for websites, video 8 social media platforms utilizing SEO best- practices (use of metadata, tags, keywords, internal linking, and optimized media).
• Champion the use of videos and interactive photography across MCL websites 8 social media pages, ensuring content is of exceptional, publishable quality.
• Prioritize web coverage to focus on readership (engagement) and impact, giving prominence to content that demonstrates exceptional newsworthiness and clarity.
• Develop and deploy new content formats, including new segments for our existing video platforms (YouTube 8 Instagram), interactive stories and visualizations.
• Research, cultivate 8 operationalize new digital distribution platforms for Mwananchi content (e.g. TikTok, Discord), working closely with the ME, Online 8 New Content.
• Cultivate and effectively manage relationships with various sources and stakeholders to ensure newsmakers talk to Mwananchi Digital first.
• Serve as digital liaison and champion with MCL’s various news desks 8 content team, helping them learn to deliver news for digital platforms first.
• Any other duties or responsibilities assigned by your head of unit.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:
• Academic: Bachelor’s degree in Journalism/Mass Communication or its equivalent from a recognized institution.
• Experience: 3-b years working experience, preferably in a newsroom or media environment in progressively responsible editorial or content production roles.
• Technical: Expertise with digital audiences, content creation and distribution using various CMSes. Experience editing 8 sharing video (Premier Pro, Final Cut, MimoLive).
• Extras: While not mandatory, knowledge of motion graphics, animations, visual effects (Blender, Adobe AE), HTML, CSS, 8 JavaScript would be an added advantage.
NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.


JOB DETAILS:

Mwananchi Communications Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Nation Media Group and publisher of Mwananchi, The Citizen, Mwanaspoti, Mwananchi Digital and various other digital platforms is looking for a motivated and highly experienced individual to fill the position of:

Online & Web Reporter – (1 Post)

 

Purpose

This role requires an exceptional journalist with experience generating original digital reporting. You will develop multiple stories for MCL’s digital platforms including websites, social, audio, video 8 SMS channels to ensure our audiences receive accurate, up-to-date news and information every day. You are an excellent writer and/or producer with a keen eye, obsessed with news, on top of what is happening, and you strive to break important stories first. You embrace technology, live for your audiences and are comfortable working with new content formats and platforms.

 

Main Responsibilities:

  • Monitor multiple news feeds on television, radio, blogs, popular media websites and social for breaking stories, and verify leads with field reporters 8 editors.
  • Liaise with news desks to identify 8 develop breaking stories for mwananchi.co.tz (and any other MCL websites) and social media channels quickly and accurately.
  • For breaking stories, write and publish short articles, with visuals and videos on MCL websites ((mwananchi.co.tz, thecitizen.co.tz) within 20 minutes of initial bulletin.
  • Develop 8 execute a personalized content plan to generate unique, exclusive long-form news, features and special reports for MCL digital platforms.
  • Vet sources and liaise with Web Editor, Mwananchi and the Managing Editor-Online 8 New
  • Content to ensure your reporting is credible and error-free.
  • Use audience data to adjust your storytelling as needed to ensure your stories are viewed, listened to or read the most by MCL’s multiple audiences.
  • Retrieve, compile, edit and upload articles and relevant photos to MCL websites (mwananchi. co.tz, thecitizen.co.tz) on a daily basis as assigned by your manager.
  • Increase audience engagement by pushing content to current social platforms (WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and new channels (TikTok, Clubhouse).
  • Champion the use of videos, social audio/podcasts and interactive photography across MCL websites 8 social channels, ensuring content is of exceptional, publishable quality.
  • Ensure the presentation of content on our websites is in line with Mwananchi Communication Limited’s house style and editorial policy.
  • Any other duties or responsibilities assigned by your manager.

 

Minimum Qualifications 8 Experience:

Academic: Bachelor’s degree in Journalism/Mass Communication or its equivalent from a recognized institution.

Experience: 1-3 years working experience, preferably in a newsroom or media environment in progressively responsible editorial or content production roles.

Technical: Expertise producing original digital reporting for web and mobile-first audiences using engaging, interactive multi-media formats (text, video, photography, visualizations). Extras: Video editing 8 sharing, social audio, mobile journalism, and familiarity with audience 8 data analytics platforms would all be an added advantage.


Job Info
Job Category: Several Jobs in one Advert jobs in Tanzania
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 20 February 2023
Duty Station: Dar es Salaam
Posted: 17-02-2023
No of Jobs: 2
Start Publishing: 17-02-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 17-02-2077
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