Maiduguri Bureau Chief at Media Trust Limited (Daily Trust)

Media Trust Limited is the publisher of Daily Trust and other newspaper titles. They are also into commercial printing as well as Brand Marketing Research for the purpose of identifying new opportunities for business values. Each market research report delivers insight across a wide range of crucial factors such as market size, growth drivers, competitive landscape, trends, and forecasts.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Maiduguri Bureau Chief

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employment Type: Full time

Job Description

• Daily Trust newspaper and Trust TV are looking for a very talented, creative and editorially sound person with a vast understanding of the northern Nigerian media market and culture to lead our Borno/North-East regional editorial team across traditional and new platforms.

Responsibilities

• As a senior team leader reporting jointly to the Daily Trust General Editor and Trust TV News Editor, you are tasked with the responsibility of transforming our editorial team into a full-fledged multimedia section and ensuring that our editorial standards are maintained across all platforms.
• This will involve working with the existing structure to creatively enhance our output from the region by focusing more on original, investigative and human-interest stories without neglecting the breaking news aspect. 

Competencies and Key Responsibilities

• To provide strong editorial leadership for the MTL team in the region, ensuring that our output conforms to our editorial guidelines and meets our audience’s needs.
• To edit and coordinate the regional coverage across Print, TV and Digital platforms. 
• To assess and ensure that the teams have the capacity and skills-set necessary to discharge their responsibilities. 
• In collaboration with the regional manager, maintain contacts with all agencies – in both the public and commercial sectors - which have a bearing on Media Trust’s effectiveness in the target area. 
• To maintain the highest standards of work through briefings, content reviews and feedback. To manage challenging staffing issues with the support of the Regional Manager and where necessary the Managing Editor.
• Ability to make sound and quick editorial judgment, manage emotions and lead others to find a way out when put under pressure or working under a tight deadline.
• Serve as a change agent by ensuring that best practices are clearly communicated and shared between teams.

Qualifications

• Be a trained journalist and/or have a strong journalistic background with a Bachelor’s Degree / HND in Journalism, Communications, or related field.
• A minimum of at least 5 years of working experience.
• Experience in multiplatform reporting and presenting.
• Have balanced and objective judgement based on a thorough understanding of editorial guidelines, target audience, programme and department objectives.
• Knowledge in editing and different storytelling techniques
• Advanced skills in using Adobe programmes (Premiere, Photoshop and After Effects).
• Ability to work effectively and quickly on more than one project at the same time.

The Ideal Candidate:

• The person must be fluent in written and spoken English with a track record of reporting experience; a deep understanding of the region, digital trends and proven newsroom leadership experience.
• He/she should have the ability to communicate with senior management and external partners.

TV skills:

• Has an accomplished reporting and presentation style which is fluent, engages the viewer and reflects the values of the channel.
• Broadcast in a manner that is understandable by a non-specialist audience.
• Provide clear treatments and proposals for stories by ensuring consistency of content, quality and style.
• Prepare, coordinate, and edit on-air material for daily news and current affairs programmes for TV. 
• Work under extreme deadline pressure to create compelling TV stories. 
• Make the best use of new technologies - in particular developments in social media in delivering our programmes to audiences and to set an example in learning to operate new systems and adapting to different working methods.

Application Closing Date
7th January, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should :
Click here to apply online

Note: Attach alongside your application, a showreel of your work and links to your published articles in the last three (3) years via the link above.