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BBC Media Action Tanzania Jobs, 2022
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Project assistant, Tanzania
Job title: Project assistant
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Reports to: Project manager
Duration: 8 months
Special requirements: The right to live and work in Tanzania. Fluent in English and Swahili with ability to write reports in both languages.
Job purpose:
The project assistant will be expected to provide administrative coordination support to the project team and staff at partner radio stations with whom BBC Media Action is collaborating to deliver the UNICEF-funded responsible parenting and family care (RPFC) project. The project aims to improve communication between parents and children, encourage greater male involvement in parenting and strengthen systems for reporting child abuse or neglect at the community level.
The successful candidate will be based in the BBC Media Action office in Dar es Salaam with frequent travel to the project’s focal regions of Mbeya, Iringa, Njombe, Songwe, Kigoma and Zanzibar.
Main duties:
- Manage communication with all partner radio stations to ensure timely production and broadcast of project radio shows and provide reports to the project manager to measure the shows’ impact. Facilitate payment of production stipends to partner radio stations and ensure that relevant information has been submitted to the finance team to make payments on time
- Keep an accurate record of equipment issued to staff at partner stations and maintain communication on proper usage
- Coordinate plans for training sessions and workshops in line with BBC Media Action procurement policies and procedures
- Work closely with the operations team to ensure all project procurement is in line with BBC Media Action guidelines and donor requirements
- Manage logistics for project activities, including visits by BBC Media Action staff, partners and donors
- Maintain a database of project information and reports
- Compile information for monthly reporting and donor reporting
- Ensure documents and reports relating to radio production and training are stored appropriately on the office shared drive
- Maintain regular contact with key staff at partner radio stations to ensure timely delivery of project and research information
- Contribute to the preparation of activity budgets as requested by the project manager
- Understand and comply with BBC Media Action’s Safeguarding Policy and the staff Code of Conduct
- Participate in relevant mandatory training on safeguarding and respect at work
- Report any safeguarding concerns immediately, either to the Country Director, or using the Whistleblowing Policy
- Perform any other duties as maybe required
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- Degree or diploma in a relevant field (such as project management, international development, social sciences)
- Two years’ experience working with international donors
- Fluency in English and Swahili
- Good interpersonal skills to establish effective working relationships with BBC Media Action staff in country and the UK and other key stakeholders
- Able to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation
- Conversant with Microsoft Office Suite
- Willingness to take the initiative in identifying problems and suggesting and implementing solutions
- An eye for detail and a concern for accuracy, together with the ability to keep sight of the broad picture
- Ability to work to short deadlines.
Head of production
Job title: Head of production
Location: Tanzania
Reports to: Senior project manager and editorial lead
Duration: 12 months (with possible extension)
Special requirements:
The right to live and work in Tanzania. Fluent in English and Swahili with ability to write reports and scripts in these languages.
Job purpose:
The head of production will lead a young, dynamic team of media producers to create editorially-sound, high quality, digital and radio content. The successful candidate will take on editorial and technical responsibility for the delivery of all BBC Media Action content in Tanzania and will be expected to manage production teams in producing content in line with the highest production standards, BBC editorial guidelines and project objectives.
The successful candidate will be expected to work on all BBC Media Action’s current and upcoming projects in Tanzania and to ensure systems are in place to support all aspects of production at every stage from design to broadcast/publication. Working closely with the senior projects manager and editorial lead, the head of production will also be responsible for building the capacity of the production team on technical and editorial matters.
The head of production will have strategic input into organisational development as well as the development of new projects and the expansion of the country office.
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Production
- Take overall responsibility for the delivery of all broadcast outputs of BBC Media Action Tanzania, ensuring editorial integrity, quality, value-for-money and timeliness of all output.
- Work with senior producers, the senior projects manager and editorial lead, the country director and the global editorial development team to resolve any editorial issues. Ensure production teams fully understand the BBC editorial guidelines and values.
- Work closely with the project team to ensure that programmes meet project goals, the production team understands these goals and outreach activities link with broadcasts. Also work closely with the research team to ensure programmes reflect research findings and are effectively monitored and evaluated.
- Creatively shape the concept of all new productions, or changes in productions, using knowledge of the local context to ensure outputs reflect the reality of life in Tanzania
- Ensure complex themes such as gender, climate change, governance and youth are treated sensitively and creatively across all media outputs
- Ensure BBC Media Action policies and codes of conduct are understood and implemented throughout the production process, with particular attention to the organisational Safeguarding Policy, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, and BBC Editorial Guidelines.
- With support from central teams, ensure that BBC Health and Safety Guidelines are observed on all productions and that relevant staff are trained and briefed to manage risk effectively during production.
- Lead the production team, including the line management of specific members of the team
- Ensure systems are in place for the effective operation of the team, including scheduling, workplans, 1:1s and appraisals, and editorial and performance review meetings
- Build the management capacity of senior producers and production co-ordinators to enable them to carry out their management responsibilities effectively
- Build the capacity of all production staff to deliver outstanding content.
- Ensure systems are in place to manage production resources, including all production equipment, edit suites and production facilities
- Oversee production budgets for all relevant projects and ensure that production complies with BBC Media Action’s finance and administration guidelines, as well as donor requirements – in particular that it provides excellent value-for-money and can be reported clearly and accurately
- Support the country director, the senior projects manager and their teams, in writing production-related sections of reports for donors, colleagues and the public
- Represent BBC Media Action with development partners, broadcast partners and other media stakeholders
- Advocate the needs of broadcast teams to the senior management team and ensure office and project policies and procedures are relevant and workable to meet the needs of broadcast teams
- Support the Country Director in taking strategic decisions about current and future operations, based on a solid understanding of the risks and opportunities in the media-development sector.
- Understand and comply with the Safeguarding Policy and the staff Code of Conduct.
- Participate in relevant mandatory training on safeguarding and respect at work.
- Report any safeguarding concerns immediately, either to the country director, or using the Whistleblowing Policy.
Required skills, knowledge, and experience:
Essential
- At least seven years’ experience in radio production across a range of formats and media platforms
- At least three years’ experience in an editorial leadership position
- Demonstrable creative ability, with a proven track-record in designing, developing and making programmes
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and significant experience of leading and managing diverse talent and production teams
- Experience of project planning with proven experience of successful project management against tight deadlines
- Experience of setting up systems for managing production resources
- Experience of developing written plans and reports for internal and external audiences
- Excellent communication skills, fluent in English and Swahili (verbal and written)
- Experience of building and influencing high-level external relationships
- Experience of designing or commissioning training and learning for production teams.
- Experience of working in a developing-country media context, preferably in East Africa
- Understanding of the principles of behaviour change communication
- Experience of overseeing a multi-platform media production project
- Understanding of BBC health and safety requirements and how these can be applied in developing country contexts
- Knowledge of BBC editorial values, aims and objectives and an ability to apply these to media development projects.
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