Economic Analyst and Presenter at Veegil Media

Veegil Media is a non-partisan technology and media organization that seeks to transform societies with technology. We promote civic engagement and good leadership for the welfare of the people.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Economic Analyst and Presenter

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Are you an economic analyst, brimming with news ideas, but with nowhere to put them? Does the idea of a fast-paced, multi-media platform seem like your ideal environment?
• Then Veegil wants you to join its team! As an experienced economic analyst, you should be a big-picture thinker that’s capable of identifying economic trends, development patterns, or story lines while also taking care of economic details and accuracy that reflect passion for helping us connect with the world around us: to express, to share, and to be part of people's lives. As an accomplished economic analyst, you will bring credibility and solid news judgement to the role.
• We are seeking a highly motivated and results-driven economic analyst with a high net worth and strong social media presence. The ideal candidate will have a passion to discuss and analyze economic trends and development on an on-air presentation platform while engaging our audiences with his/her professional expertise.
• As a seasoned economic analyst, you must be ready to bring game-changing economic trends and developments to life and join a community that values civic engagement and political consciousness for the people. The successful candidate will have outstanding on-air presentation skills and a proven track record of engaging audiences with debate topics and contents that are economic-centered.

Responsibilities

• While not all the duties and responsibilities that may be assigned to this position are listed, the following is a paraphrase of the primary functions of this role:
• We are looking for individuals with passion for digital broadcast and online media presentation.
• Applicant should have work experience in interviewing and writing, with strong English skills, while demonstrating excellent editorial judgement and conduct on social media.
• Research on economic-related topics, combining online sources, generating ideas for new content types and proofreading articles before publication
• Develop positive and constructive relationships with sources across a wide range of industries, organizations and regions to bring diverse and well-informed voices into daily reporting.
• Attract, interview, study, and interact with targeted virtual communities and networks users.
• Build and execute social media strategy through competitive research.
• Generate, edit, publish and share daily content original text, images, video or HTML that builds meaningful connections and encourages community members to take action.
• Prepare well-structured drafts using Content Management Systems.
• Coordinate with marketing and design teams to illustrate articles.
• Conduct simple keyword research and use SEO guidelines to increase web traffic.
• Promote content on social media.
• Identify customers’ needs and gaps in our content and recommend new topics.
• Ensure all-around consistency in style, fonts, images and tone.
• Update website content as needed.

Requirements / Required Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Communications, Marketing, Business Analysis, Journalism, Public Relations, Media or equivalent.
• Proven working experience in Economic Analysis or business analysis with portfolio of proven written articles.
• Demonstrable social networking experience and analytics tools knowledge.
• Minimum of three years of experience in TV / Web / Media presentation.
• Knowledge of online marketing and good understanding of major marketing channels.
• Proven experience in news reporting and ability to perform in front of the camera.
• Strong writing and storytelling skills, and knowledge of local, national, and international economic news and current events.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Good understanding of social networks and the audience.
• Proven filming and editing abilities.
• Proven organizational skills, and ability to work autonomously under tight deadlines.
• Good editorial judgement, demonstrated ability to produce original and enterprising news reports.
• Ability to manage new and emerging technologies.
• Experience and/or knowledge of third party community sites and social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others.
• Experience with paid social media campaigns.
• Strong portfolio of previous work.

Key Skill Sets Preferred:

• Writing, editorial and media presentation skills.
• Up to three years’ experience working as an economic analyst.
• Experience working independently and as part of a team and incorporating feedback.
• An engaged social media presence and management skills.
• Up-to-date with latest social media best practices and technologies.
• Digital Media creation (High-Value Content write-up, podcasts, video, and narrative story-telling)
• Content creation and Marketing

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications and CV to: cv@vegeel.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.