Video Journalist

Role Responsibility

• Working closely with other Journalists in the service, the successful candidate will create content for a variety of broadcast and digital media platforms, in multiple formats including audio and video.
• You will use your knowledge of the digital media market to produce interesting news content for our website and social media platforms.
• You will work across all BBC Somali Service platforms to ensure the highest quality content is created for our audiences and conforms to BBC Values and editorial standards

Are you the right candidate?

• The successful candidate will have a full command of Somali (written and spoken) and a broadcast-standard of English.
• Demonstrable knowledge in a journalistic background is essential.
• Experience of digital newsgathering, original journalism, using various cameras and filing video from the field is important.
• You will have a track record of filming and editing high quality video content, with knowledge of working with Final Cut Pro and other tools and applications as required.