Audience Engagement Editor at HumAngle Media Limited

HumAngle Media Limited, founded by two Nigerian journalists, Obiora Chukwumba, (PhD) and Ahmad Salkida in March 2020, is a media platform committed to passionate, insightful and objective coverage of insecurity across Africa.

Over the years, insecurity has become the chief driver of mass mortality, economic and state instability in the region, yet it attracts no dedicated coverage from the media. HumAngle is the African Daily Newspaper focused on insecurity and humanitarian values. The reporting from HumAngle is delivered for public and special access in digital print and visual broadcast editions, featuring breaking news, analysis and factual commentary across the Sahel and Lake Chad; the Gulf of Guinea; Niger Delta and the sub-Saharan territories.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Audience Engagement Editor

Location: Abuja
Start Date: As soon as possible

Description 

• We are hiring an Audience Engagement Editor to help bridge the gap between our content and those who experience it, build our readership, and ensure our publications reach the desired audience in the best way possible.
• The work is hybrid and flexible.
• The candidate we are looking for is someone who is creative and has at least three years of newsroom experience.
• We are a niche media platform committed to the insightful, innovative, in-depth, and objective coverage of Africa’s conflict, humanitarian, and development issues.
• Our primary duty is to investigate, analyse, and report conflict issues in a sensitive, in-depth, and human-centred manner. We paint accurate pictures of crises and how they affect communities and demographics. We also hold the government to account for its responsibility of protecting lives and properties.

Responsibilities
The person will be responsible for:

• Develop and execute a growth and engagement strategy that expands our audience within the security, humanitarian, and development sectors and maximises the impact of our work on social media platforms.
• Collect feedback from the audience, consistently analyse user experience vis-a-vis content performance, and develop a strategy accordingly.
• Identify and deploy strategies to increase the number of visitors to the HumAngle website, improve product distribution in line with editorial priorities, and optimise the site’s performance on search engines.
• Oversee the publication of automated and written newsletters as well as policy briefs.
• Create, edit, and publish appropriate copies for social media posts.
• Increase the editorial team’s metric literacy and facility in SEO and off-platform content creation via updates, workshops, and other learning opportunities.
• Oversee and post to all social media platforms daily while serving as a social media ‘evangelist’ to coach our editorial team and contributors in crafting effective social media content.
• Suggest and oversee cross-platform repackaging of core site content, identify new platforms and adapt content to diverse, multicultural audiences.
• Effectively track our content reach and engagement across all channels, including on our website and partner platforms, newsletters, and social media.
• Work with the Editor-in-Chief to identify and develop effective distribution frameworks and re-publication partnerships with other media organisations.

Qualifications
Candidates should:

• At least three years of experience as a journalist in a successful newsroom, with knowledge and training in audience engagement.
• Demonstrable expertise working with editorial teams to present and promote coverage across platforms and toward diverse audiences.
• In-depth familiarity with the international and non-profit media landscape, including a solid understanding of best practices and emerging trends for distributing timely coverage and engaging niche and general audiences.
• Strong analytical literacy in mainstream and emerging analytics tools with a proven track record of data-driven decision-making.
• A collaborative, news-cycle-informed mindset.
• Good knowledge of SEO as it applies in the media space.
• Excellent written English and knowledge of professional journalism practices and ethics.
• An understanding of what makes social content travel and the ability to write and edit compelling posts, tweets, and other copies that reflect HumAngle’s core values.

Salary
N350,000 / Month (Net).

Application Closing Date
26th April, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online